The Ack Ack or the pilots? 😉

It’s this one, Chris.

Linky

And even IF – I do not have the power of recall that is vital to the reader.
I only have to read such as Geoff Wellum to have confirmed the need to be grateful for survival & leave it at that.

Does that make sense??

= Tim

Perfectly, Tim. Though I still think you do yourself a disservice. As Andy Saunders has mentioned more than once, the Reach for the Skys and Fly for your Lifes of the genre are rather heavily embellished!

I think the true history of a conflict is in the experiences of the ordinary man, not the dashing aces or the gallant leaders. Its in conveying the naievety of youth, the mundane sorties, the boring postings, the attitudes of those around you. The very things you seem to think wouldn’t make a good book are, in my opinion, the very things that do make a good book. And I dislike using the term ‘good book’, in this context as it’s not about writing a boys own adventure so much as leaving an important record for posterity and of course your family.

But as I said, I don’t want to become a pest, so I won’t bring this up again.

All the best to you, Tim.

Looks like some kind of cable rachet/tensioner.

😮 damn it, Tim! Stop teasing us and write a memoir! 😀

If penning it yourself really doesn’t appeal at all, get yourself a ghost writer. I’m sure there’s more than one writer on here who would jump at the chance.

Anyway, this is my last word on the subject as I’ve brought it up before and don’t want to become a pest. 😉

The full scale replicas are likely expanded from plans rather than molds. Some of the minor structural bloopers are the sort you get from looking at a two dimensional image rather than a real example.

I’m going to choose to assume someone forgot to add ‘Memorial Flight’ to that sentence as opposed to actually being THAT ignorant…

Then again, I almost fell out of my chair when Mathew Pinsent revealed he’d never heard of Monte Cassino, a battle his grandfather fought in. If an Eton and Oxford grad has never heard of it, perhaps we should rethink how we’re teaching history.

Great to hear, Jules. Also looking forward to a then and now!