Christ! That’s not a replica, it’s an artwork! And I’m serious, it is a work of art. Absolutely superb.
And that website is bookmarked, thank you very much.
Oh WOW! I love Black Widows! 19 years and still going strong, fantastic dedication and craftsmanship.
It’s an S103 in Pribor. Google Earth co-ordinates: N 49 38 19.63 E 18 08 24.39.
Thanks to GE hacks for helping me find it, that was fun!
Look to me like a tin-opener, you know the old ones in which you pump the handle to get it to cut through the top
Don’t think so, it’s about 2cm across and flat edged, not blade-like. It would be next to impossible to penetrate a tin lid.
Exactly, Res, the blade on mine is damn all use apart from cutting cords!
Woo! 300th post, and it’s only taken me 5 and a half years! :rolleyes:
Hi all,
I read about a Free French Bomb aimer who when their Halifax was in a particualrly nasty spot of Flak decided to jump rather than wait for the plane to be hit.
Wouldn’t that be classed as desertion?
Not much help, I’m afraid, but this pdf document shows a similar one (half way down, Accession No. 331), an MI22, without the A.
That’s what I suspected, as the blade is damn all use for anything else I can think of.
Thanks chaps.
Nope, just what you see, a single blade with a short cutting edge and a dirty great opener on the end.
Works for me, so he may have been stretching the truth a little bit to impress a young ‘un!
Although the RAF pilot’s wings with clasp he gave me when we were leaving for the last time were kosher, and lovely. Sadly, that disappeared years ago during one of my many house moves.
He was telling you the truth, the knife has no wooden handles on it, one blade is a can opener, one a knife and it has a flat screwdriver on the end, still use them in ejection seats, have mine in my toolkit at work 🙂
Almost but not quite, mine has the same shape as the 2-piece but the bottle opener is on the end of the blade!
I’ll photo it and post it up in a separate thread.
Slightly related to the above question, was there an emergency pack in the 50s/60s that contained a stripped down (i.e. no fancy bits on the handle) foldable combi knife/bottle opener?
I only ask because when I were a nipper I was given one by an ex-RAF pilot who told me that’s where it came from (I still have it). He also gave me a small box of weatherproof matches (the heads were covered in wax), saying it was from the same source. Was he pulling my leg?
Phew! Just finished. Fantastic read, and combining it with Google Earth was really interesting.
Cheers for a great link.
Damn you! This is going to take me hours to read! That’s the evening sorted anyhow.
Nice Aircraft if not for that butt ugly nose end!
With you on that one. Reminds me of a grinning loon. But anyway, great to see another one in the air.