Also, once he’d made his errors-landing too deep into the runway, ramming open the throttles causing the rich cut etc-Pullan just ‘froze’, making no attempt to rectify the situation in any way; clearly an indication of brain-fade. Can you imagine being John Romain, trying to claw the guys hand off the throttles?

Looking good, and great to think the the three V-bombers will be together; also great to think of the space that will be freed up in the Bomber Hall at Hendon, although, no doubt S-Sugar will have to be shunted around/part-dismantled yet again to get it out…:mad:

Hmm, lots of views of this thread, but barely any replies; ‘pilot error’ is a strong phrase to use, but surely, if fuel was at all in doubt, you’d have run weak to increase your chances?

It goes by the name ‘Night Bombers’ and is usually available somewhere or other on tape. The take off sequence-shot from an already airborne aircraft flying beside the Lanc during it’s run-is superb.

It’s not the only colour film of Bomber Command though-there’s colour footage of a WW2 Conningsby Lanc, too.

Spitfire- P7350, BBMF

Must-Hang- don’t like ’em!!!! :p

Sounds good,although it’s presented and narrated by Jeremy Clarkson,so who knows!

Nothing wrong with Jezza-his program on Brunel for the ‘Great Britons’ thing a while back was superb.

Cain is Jezza’s father in law, and he writes a very good piece about all this in the current Radio Times; he points out that these days, people call muppets like Beckham a hero just for scoring a goal in stupid football; he says he’s proud to be related to a REAL hero.

Good on him, I say.

I’ve started to give up on the half hour slot Channel 5 ‘documentaries; by the time you’ve had three ad breaks, you get about 20 mins of actual program!

why has the spitfire got TWO drooping ailerons?

Too much alcohol? 😉