As I don’t consider the above worth dignifying with a response, please consider this a blank posting!

Then why bother posting the above? Sheesh!

No probs. I was kind of hoping it was 467…

I have a lovely poc of Jamie Rankin in the cockpit of a Spit with kill markings at, I think, Biggin Hill. Probably in the loft – a contemporary one at that. Have a few snaps with him scxanned in too I think. 609 always liked 92.

Aut Cursu, Aut Comminus Armis.

A lovely poc? Didn’t realise Jamie Rankin had pocs. 🙂 Nice collection of pics by the sounds of it.

Well, if you got legless then I suppose it explains your presence on this thread.

Very witty indeed. One of Wilde’s?

On that note, there’s still a possible entry point, and not too far from Bader: what is Blue Diamond’s thinking behind, eg, his username and quoting the 92 Squadron motto in his signature? Would he (perhaps after a deep deep breath), care to share the connection? He may have done so elsewhere, in which case my apologies for missing it

Don,
I had close personal contacts with 92 in its operational days and have been honoured with invites to the Squadron Association’s annual dinners. I’ve had the exceptional honour to have had personal dealings with BoB and DAF 92 veterans and one of the latter is still a close personal friend of mine. I’m also heavily involved in the operation of a unique living memorial to the Squadron. Indeed at its rededication back in September 1998 our association was blessed with the attendance of a number of 92 veterans from BoB days up to the Lightning era.
I hope this answers your question.
P.S. I revised/added a lot of material to the wikipedia entry as the original was both sparse and inaccurate.

So, you go to work for free, do you? Andy Saunders and Dilip Sarkar legitimately make a living as professional aviation historians – although by different means. Speaking personally, I research, write, publish. lecture and provide consultancy, and, believe you me, the profit margin is certainly not great – such are the high costs of running such an operation.

How dare you, sir, link my name to unethical work and money being a prime motivator. Such a statement merely serves to prove that you do not know me and are completely ignorant of what I am about. Indeed, if you read the thread you will see that my ‘driving force’ regarding the Casson/Bader matter was integrity.

What is extremely sad, however, is that cowards like ‘Blue Diamond’ are able to hide behind their ‘handles’ and sling mud on forums such as these. If you feel that strongly that you need to bad mouth me so publically, you should have the courage to identify yourself. The fact that you have not makes your comments worthless, and, I daresay, motivated by jealousy, which seems to be why most stones get thrown at those of us who have made our passion our lives.

Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS

Yawn, yawn, yawn!

i think the lady doth protest too much.

Me neither, you’ve certainly had some free publicity out of it. you’re good at PR i’ll give you that.

Sadly that seems to be the driving force of the main protagonists here, sod ethical excavations just count the pennies. The more this continues, the less respect I have for Messrs Sarkar and Saunders and their ilk.

Re the Big Wing.

Personally I just couldn’t believe it when the narrator came out with the line that ‘Bader was allowed to proceed with the Big Wing experiment by RAF top brass’, or words to that effect, and, worse, that without the Big Wing ‘the outcome of the Battle of Britain would have been very different’.

Firstly Bader was allowed to develop his (completely flawed)

Thankyou Dilip for putting Bader’s Big Wing nonsense where it belongs i.e. the rubbish bin.

Cracking stuff. Wish I’d been able to be there.