I’m really sorry to hear this. I’ve got some footage of Dizzy flying at the 1982 Biggin Hill AIr Display.

Total and utter tripe from beginning to end.

If the participants have been genuinely “hoaxed”, then they deserve pity, not ridicule. On the other hand, if it is the viewers who are being hoaxed (which is what I think) then Channel 4 need to be slapped about.

I am not against a TV channel playing the odd trick on its viewers (they all have done so many times over the years) but this “trick” is so patently transparent that watching it KNOWING you are being fooled is a complete waste of valuable sock drawer organising time.

I assume Ireland would have been occupied by the Germans too – although I am absolutely ceartin that there would have been a very active Irish Resistance movement.

I am pretty sure the first USAAF B-17s used in the European theatre were Es and Fs.

The RAF used Cs as bombers but with no great conviction. Their main role with the RAF was in Coastal Command.

That was my exact point.

In fact, early in the film they do refer to it as RDF but later on, the word “Radar” starts being used.

For most people, even in 1969, the terms RDF or Radio Location would have meant absolutely nothing.

Even thjough it wasn’t quite right, I can fully understand why film makers sometimes take this form of “artistic” licence.

Doing some checking up on the exploits of Brendan “Paddy” Finucane, I was very pleased to see that a memorial garden and plaque in his honour was revealed at Baldonnel in 2004.

It is really great to see that these Irish men who fought and died for democracy are finally getting due recognition in their homeland.

5th Gear also use Anglesey Circuit a lot.

I think Yeager was enough of a professional test pilot to be dispassionate when evaluating aircraft – no matter who built them. Indeed, giving an honest appraisal of an “enemy” airctraft would have been expected of him. I think he felkt that the MiG was quite unstable in various areas of the flight envelope. It’s a long time since I read his book so I can’t remember in detail what he thought its overall shortcomings were.

Maybe it’s time for a re-read.