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April 15, 2003 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Another Dambusters/Lancaster TV heads-up #2083726

Bluebird Mike
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Yeah, on the whole, a good show and a refreshing way at looking at the raid. It’s great that they spread it over two shows, rather than cramming it into one, and Lucy is STILL better looking than Guy Gibson!!! 😉

April 15, 2003 at 6:16 pm in reply to: Hey.. I can post again..! #2083729

Bluebird Mike
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By ‘eck, that’s a nice looking Lanc, and welcome back, Peter! 😎

April 14, 2003 at 10:54 pm in reply to: Query For A Wellington Enthusiast #2083834

Bluebird Mike
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‘Nitram’, you’re a star mate, thanks! That’s narrowed down the piccie of my grandad to a very short period of time, as that’s definitely taken during the aircraft’s 149 sqdn period. (‘His’ sqdn for the whole war.)

Re. the 9 sqdn Wimpey-I guess the first on your list, L7789, is our plane, as he was at 9 sqdn briefly around the dates you give, but was at 149 for the dates on the other two-nice work, Sherlock!

That’s fantastic, thanks!

Mike

😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

April 13, 2003 at 5:45 pm in reply to: Stirling LK488 #2084023

Bluebird Mike
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Yes, I’ve seen this one before Steve-a good effort to keep a ‘lost’ type alive, though the pictures haven’t been changed in an age, so I don’t know what the current state of this build is.

April 13, 2003 at 5:20 pm in reply to: Query For A Wellington Enthusiast #2084030

Bluebird Mike
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😀 😀 😀 😀

It worked! Ha! I’ve also got another of Grandad’s Wellington pictures-this time just a negative which I’ve yet to have developed-that shows ‘WS-Y’ of 9 Sqdn, though this time the serial is obscured by the tail plane-I’d guess that the last three numbers were either ‘389’, or ‘789’ though. I could be completely wrong there of course!!!

Cheers,

Mike

April 13, 2003 at 5:17 pm in reply to: Query For A Wellington Enthusiast #2084032

Bluebird Mike
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Fingers crossed…

April 13, 2003 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Query For A Wellington Enthusiast #2084035

Bluebird Mike
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Thanks both ever so much for your replies-I had just assumed that there HAD been a ‘Wellington File’ to be quite honest!

The picture I have is fairly early war, and quite possibly was taken when my grandad was being trained somewhere or other-I’ve yet to fully decipher his exact dates/moves on his service papers, as they were apparently written by an inky spider!!!

😮

April 13, 2003 at 9:51 am in reply to: Query For A Wellington Enthusiast #2084105

Bluebird Mike
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Nobody got ‘The Wellington File’ then? 🙁

April 12, 2003 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Stirling LK488 #2084107

Bluebird Mike
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Hey, perhaps we could rip the wings off Hendon’s Sunderland, bolt ’em onto their few real bits of Stirling, build the rest out of wood and call it a ‘Stirling’…we could then keep it next to Elvington’s ‘Halifax’!!!

(Lancman dives for cover!!!)

😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

April 11, 2003 at 8:49 pm in reply to: Stirling LK488 #2084218

Bluebird Mike
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Hear hear, we really need to get a Stirling together from somewhere.

April 9, 2003 at 12:23 am in reply to: Another Dambusters/Lancaster TV heads-up #2084735

Bluebird Mike
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I was totally unaware that there was a book to go with the series, so thanks for the heads up David! (I’m surprised C4 didn’t plug it at the episodes end)

🙂

April 8, 2003 at 8:51 pm in reply to: Another Dambusters/Lancaster TV heads-up #2084766

Bluebird Mike
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Yes, of course, put like that, you’re right-and Lucy is much better looking than old Gibbo ever was!!!

😉

April 8, 2003 at 6:58 pm in reply to: Stirling LK488 #2084778

Bluebird Mike
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As such a historically important and under-represented aircraft, the Stirling deserves to have what little of it remains put on show no matter how mangled or incomplete it may be; and general Joe Public should then do well not to criticise ‘dusty mangled metal’ but actually use his brain and THINK about the aircraft, and REMEMBER it.

We could always get shot of that B-17 and plonk it there..!!!
(Lancman runs and hides!!!)

:p 😉

April 8, 2003 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Another Dambusters/Lancaster TV heads-up #2084785

Bluebird Mike
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Sorry to accuse you of being pedantic PeeBee, but pilot Lucy was using all sorts of very modern RAF-speak, and my mentioning of ‘wilco’ was just to imply that there was all sorts of 1940’s RAF speak that she could have been using instead!

Was that colour footage of Gibson genuine, or colourised B&W stuff? It actually looked pretty genuine to me, but I was unaware that colour film of him existed. Looked absurdly young too, didn’t he?

April 8, 2003 at 1:00 am in reply to: Another Dambusters/Lancaster TV heads-up #2084938

Bluebird Mike
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Very enjoyable-more focussed on the modern day crew and their training in the (hysterical, I thought!) ‘Lancaster simulator’, and some nice footage of them having the time of their lives in the CWH Lanc-nice to see that, even though it’s as bare as a babie’s bum inside! Lucy, the RAF ‘Lanc pilot’, started to annoy me a little when she kept saying things like ‘affirm’; what’s wrong with a good old fashioned ‘wilco’?!

On the whole though ,very good-and different fro mthe norm-stuff, and I’m really looking forward to next week’s ‘raid’ now! 😀
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