Brian Lecomber also wrote a novel. Was it called “Talk Down”? I seem to remember it was pretty good. Has he written any more?

Bought the Haqlifax last week. Definitely the Matchbox kit. Great that we can now do both major sub-types of the design.

If only someone was brave enough to give us a Hercules option on the Lancaster.

Thank’s for finding that. Very good.

I never knew that the Queen worked as a Public Announcer at the London Air Terminal 🙂 The voice was extremely plummy wasn’t it – but the diction was perfect.

I didn’t spot any Accountants though. That film was made very early in the 50s, almost ten years before the Accountant flew. There was some footage of the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo.

Technology on its own is never decisive. It’s how the technology is used that makes the difference.

From an aircraft point of view it can be argued that there was virtually nothing to chose between the opposing sides. Bomber wise, the Luftwaffe aircraft were not really up to the job of strategic bombing. Fighter wise, the Bf109 was every bit as good as the Spitfire and better than the Hurricane, but severly hampered by lack of range. The Bf110 proved itself virtually worthless in its intended role.

The British posession of radar was not decisive (the Germans had already independently devised similar technology) but it was the properly intergrated defence system of RAF Fighter Command using radar stations and sector control centres all co-ordinated through Bentley Priory that REALLY was important.

Where did you get yours from?

The true prototype of the low cost scheduled carrier is Southwest Airlines of Texas. They began operating in 1973 (Laker began operations as a regular scheduled airline and charter operator in 1966 – his low cost operations began in 1973 but due to all the restrictions put in place, he wasn’t really able to operate the way he wanted to until 1977).

An impressive career.

I presume Masefield House at Gatwick is called after him?

It was pretty ugly, whatever it was.