I hope he enjoyed his last years plotting their escape from the veterans home with his his old friend from Stalg Luft III, Alex Lees. So few left now…..:(

Can they actually do that? If they have cocked up why should you pay up? 😡

Since the Obama administration’s far cooler relations with Israel, they perceive themselves as isolated and highly vulnerable surrounded by their enemies, the chief of these being Iran. The new UK government has joined most of the rest of Israel’s detractors in making knee-kerk criticisms before the facts are known.

Obama’s supine attitude to Iran has exacerbated the problem for Israel. I am no fervent supporter of either Israel or the Palestinians and their paymasters, but I’m pretty sure how I would feel if I was an Israeli. I am making no excuses but trying to see the worls from theur perspective. And it does not look very friendly.

That’s extremely useful. Any idea of the height they fly at en route and when they drop to flypast height?

I have to say that I totally agree with Kev35’s well summarised analysis of the subject.

Good for her, Blue – no doubt a small liquid celebration is in order.;)

The 262 was another instance where the allies have good cause to be grateful for Hitler! He delayed it coming into the battle by insisting that it be able to do dive bombing.
So far as I know it was mainly used in attacking the bomber streams.
I don’t know where the software writers of Microsoft’s FS3 got their performance figures from but they’re really easy to shoot down in a Vampire!
You should probably be able to get some info from the guys in US who have built three of them.

I thought that Hitler and the military were as wary as the British were about the merits of the “jet turbine”, believing in the well proven high performance prop engines against the new and untried technology. The BoB would certainly have been a different affair had the 262 been engaged.

The question needs some qualification. Do you mean every beat copper all the time he/she is on duty?