Not being a game player I am bemused at your post. Surely you have answered your own question and would be better advised to find something else to while away those hours otherwise spent glued to a screen.;):)
Not being a game player I am bemused at your post. Surely you have answered your own question and would be better advised to find something else to while away those hours otherwise spent glued to a screen.;):)
I think all have applied at one time or another…………..;)
FIDO was trialled at Graveley, Martlesham Heath, and Lakenheath, and in part at Blackbushe.
From what I can ascertain is that RAF Downham Market was the first to use it on full operational trials in Nov ’43, and RAF Gravely the first to use it in anger at about the same time.
Manston was the last station to be equiped, and also by far the last to still be in use, not being taken out of service until 1958.
Thanks for the correction….:)
Riveting stuff. I’ve just clicked at random and there is an absolute treasure chest of the familiar and unfamiliar and many surprises. Many thanks for posting.:D:D
Trialled at Manston, I believe and the original tanks are still there, used as petroleum storage by a private company.
I never cease to be amazed when reading this and many similar threads at the extent and depth of members’ knowledge and the ability to ferret out detail and information from often, to my layman’s view, scant evidence. Fascinating!:)
Fantastic pictures!!:D That looks as though it was one helluva show.
Sorry she’s gone, but I still find myself fast forwarding her bits of the film. I was eleven when the film first came out, she did not leave a lasting impression on me. The aeroplanes were the stars and watching a 109 flying at 20′ beating up some Hurricanes at the beginning or Spitfires taking off during a raid and one hitting a bowser or the hangar at Duxford blown up or the emotion of HeIIIs shot down without loss, the German front gunner having tomato sauce sprayed onto his goggles (it looked like blood when you’re eleven), Spitfires dancing across the silver screen knocking down the hun. It all looked so real at the time and was one of my aviation pivotal moments.
It wasn’t that I did not like SY per se, but the role she played.
If it was to be done again I would hope they would include:
instead and focus more on the Battle.
just my thoughts….(now where’s that tin hat?)
(need a bigger boat!:D…..took awhile)
I tend to agree. For many on here I think her career began with this film. BoB was about the flying for me and SY’s role in it was not particularly impressive having already seen her in Tunes of Glory, Greengage Summer, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons and Killing of Sister George – after the latter, BoB was pretty tame fare!!! 😉
I think Resmoroh is just trying to say that any excavation should be done using science as a primary tool rather than enthusiasm alone. Maybe not a bad idea considering the tunnel will be partially collapsed. Definitely a time for hand trowels rather than big diggers. As Res has an Archaeology Degree and has been previously employed digging up Roman stuff for a university, he probably knows what he’s talking about.
Then I heartily agree, but I haven’t read anything from which you couild possibly infer that it will anything other than a professional expert lead excavation.
.“…..passed to the historians for them to make their usual ‘wild guesses’ about any set of facts.”
A rather sweeping generalisation, I would have thought. And I am not upset, but just fail to understand the point being made.:confused:
Fascinating stuff -looking forward to the results of the excavations.
It looks pretty good on here!!:)
Nostalgic pictures all. I have fond memories of Piper flights up the East Coast to Aberdeen, sometimes stopping en route at Hull, Edinburgh ansd Dundee, if memory serves. It was Air Anglia after Rig Air was merged with two other companies, I think.
……he’s only trying to wind up Moggy C……….:rolleyes:
…and succeeding in winding up Creaking Door.;):D