Dave HomewoodIt’s not news and has nothing to do with anyone.
You may be right, so-called celebrities have as much right to their privacy as anyone else despite what the press thinks. But it was her that decided to tell the public, it wasn’t leaked by the press as far as I’m aware.
And I guess many people do have the right to know because she was about to start a sold out tour in Aussie. She couldn’t just cancel without an excuse. Imagine how the press would handle that – especially if they got wiff of a medical problem. Journalists can be such mindless vultures sometimes.
Dave HomewoodIt’s not news and has nothing to do with anyone.
You may be right, so-called celebrities have as much right to their privacy as anyone else despite what the press thinks. But it was her that decided to tell the public, it wasn’t leaked by the press as far as I’m aware.
And I guess many people do have the right to know because she was about to start a sold out tour in Aussie. She couldn’t just cancel without an excuse. Imagine how the press would handle that – especially if they got wiff of a medical problem. Journalists can be such mindless vultures sometimes.
Dave HomewoodYes, Revell made a 1/32 Beaufighter. It was made by Revell Germany, and is probably still available somewhere.
There’s a couple on German ebay
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=99937&item=7323142379&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=99937&item=7322506962&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Dave HomewoodYou’re lucky you got any response compared with here in NZ. We used to have a top notch emergency service, but of course Governments have meddled and cuts were made. Now the entire country (bigger in area than Britain) relies on just three emergency call centres, who usually get it wrong if they do anything at all.
There is a HUGE unquiry going on at the moment due to successive failures in the system this year. It began when a nice young lady called Iraena Asher was at a party at a beech – she was getting hassled by some guy, was alone, it was dark, she didn’t know the area and felt in real danger. She rang the cops who fobbed her off. She rang again very distrssed and the cops said to walk to the nearest service station and they’ll send a patrol. There is no service station at Piha beach, and instead of a patrol car, they rang a taxi. They gave the wrong address to the taxi despatcher, who was just a kid, and it was sent to the wrong side of Auckland. Iraena Asher has never been heard of since.
This became a furore and escalated when a bloke had his rural home invaded, and called 111, he was beaten to a pulp and no police were sent. He barely survived it, but is now kicking up stink.
A little after that, in nearby Hamilton city, in the middle of a night a car smashed through this lady’s fence and hit her house. The drunken driver got out and tried to get into her house, and was banging and shouting blue murder. He was a stranger and she and her friend panicked so they called the emergency services. Again, nothing was sent. they rang again, and were abused. Finally half an hour later when a cop turned up, the offender had already got back into his 4WD and driven off drunk and angry. Hopeless.
The enquiry has found massive lglearing problems from bad training to the fact that a huge percentage of calls are simply ignored, not even answered. While others are ‘logged’ and ignored till a second call comes. It is dreadful.
The Federated Farmers Union announced to farmers the other day, if anything happens, don’t bother ringing the cops, ring your neighbours as they will be the only ones who come.
The Government are so smug they think and say nothing is wrong, and yet it so obviously is. The minister of Police, George Hawkins, is the most incompetent MP I have ever seen or heard. He is actually worse than Piers from ‘The New Statesman’ (the Rik Mayall political comedy) when he’s interviewed as far as being lilly livered and a suck up to the leader. Helen Clark always rips into the media saying they’re bullying Hawkins because he’s disabled after a stroke. Bullshine!! He never, ever gives a straight answer and never seems to actually know an answer if it was presented on a plate. I never knew he was disabled at all – he’s fully abled as far as his job would require him, and has but a lisp – so the stoke can’t have been much of one. I think it definately affected his brain though. He trots out a well-trodden and imboscilic party line to keep the undead lady at the top happy, but he hasn’t a clue about policing and emergency services – this is plain to everyone. Meanwhile there is less and less confidence in the police, and more and more enquiries.
He also bloats on about there being less reported crime each year and it being at it’s lowest since the 1960’s – yet he fails to realise that if the 111 service is ignoring calls, then reported crime goes unreported. Errghh!!
We are in much the same position as the UK was a few weeks ago – a corrupt and incompetent Government, with a corrupt and equally incompetent, less powerful opposition waiting in the wings. Very few of our MP’s have a clue. I’m with Billy Connolly on his solution – the application form when you decide to go into politics should have but one question: “Do you want to be a politician?” If they tick yes, F*CK OFF!
Dave HomewoodYou’re lucky you got any response compared with here in NZ. We used to have a top notch emergency service, but of course Governments have meddled and cuts were made. Now the entire country (bigger in area than Britain) relies on just three emergency call centres, who usually get it wrong if they do anything at all.
There is a HUGE unquiry going on at the moment due to successive failures in the system this year. It began when a nice young lady called Iraena Asher was at a party at a beech – she was getting hassled by some guy, was alone, it was dark, she didn’t know the area and felt in real danger. She rang the cops who fobbed her off. She rang again very distrssed and the cops said to walk to the nearest service station and they’ll send a patrol. There is no service station at Piha beach, and instead of a patrol car, they rang a taxi. They gave the wrong address to the taxi despatcher, who was just a kid, and it was sent to the wrong side of Auckland. Iraena Asher has never been heard of since.
This became a furore and escalated when a bloke had his rural home invaded, and called 111, he was beaten to a pulp and no police were sent. He barely survived it, but is now kicking up stink.
A little after that, in nearby Hamilton city, in the middle of a night a car smashed through this lady’s fence and hit her house. The drunken driver got out and tried to get into her house, and was banging and shouting blue murder. He was a stranger and she and her friend panicked so they called the emergency services. Again, nothing was sent. they rang again, and were abused. Finally half an hour later when a cop turned up, the offender had already got back into his 4WD and driven off drunk and angry. Hopeless.
The enquiry has found massive lglearing problems from bad training to the fact that a huge percentage of calls are simply ignored, not even answered. While others are ‘logged’ and ignored till a second call comes. It is dreadful.
The Federated Farmers Union announced to farmers the other day, if anything happens, don’t bother ringing the cops, ring your neighbours as they will be the only ones who come.
The Government are so smug they think and say nothing is wrong, and yet it so obviously is. The minister of Police, George Hawkins, is the most incompetent MP I have ever seen or heard. He is actually worse than Piers from ‘The New Statesman’ (the Rik Mayall political comedy) when he’s interviewed as far as being lilly livered and a suck up to the leader. Helen Clark always rips into the media saying they’re bullying Hawkins because he’s disabled after a stroke. Bullshine!! He never, ever gives a straight answer and never seems to actually know an answer if it was presented on a plate. I never knew he was disabled at all – he’s fully abled as far as his job would require him, and has but a lisp – so the stoke can’t have been much of one. I think it definately affected his brain though. He trots out a well-trodden and imboscilic party line to keep the undead lady at the top happy, but he hasn’t a clue about policing and emergency services – this is plain to everyone. Meanwhile there is less and less confidence in the police, and more and more enquiries.
He also bloats on about there being less reported crime each year and it being at it’s lowest since the 1960’s – yet he fails to realise that if the 111 service is ignoring calls, then reported crime goes unreported. Errghh!!
We are in much the same position as the UK was a few weeks ago – a corrupt and incompetent Government, with a corrupt and equally incompetent, less powerful opposition waiting in the wings. Very few of our MP’s have a clue. I’m with Billy Connolly on his solution – the application form when you decide to go into politics should have but one question: “Do you want to be a politician?” If they tick yes, F*CK OFF!
Dave HomewoodWow, the very thought of that is daunting.
They did some crazy things at airshows in those days! In A.E. Clouston’s book “Dangerous Skies” he tells of leading a nine-ship Hawker biplane formation that were all tied together, with which they looped and looped. He was with 25 Sqn and this was the 1933 Hendon Air Display. During a practice they crashed into each other at the top of the loop due to an air pocket! He lost half his prop. The plane beside him crumpled up and fell from the sky. The actual display on the day went well though and was the highlight of the show – I’ll bet it was! There’s a photo of the formation in the book.
Dave HomewoodI knew that photo reminded me of someone…
Anyone else remember Roger Ramjet?
Dave HomewoodI would lobby for Martin Caidin’s ‘Everything but the Flak’ to be made into a book…and featuring ‘Fuddy Duddy’…again…
Made into a book???
Dave HomewoodThis is excellent to see, great photos. What type of 109 is this? It looks like an E model but has it got a later canopy? (sorry, I’m not that well versed on 109’s so may be wrong, it just looks a little different from the norm to me).
Dave HomewoodCheers, I thought it may have been that plane but couldn’t recall what its name was.
Dave HomewoodA fair bit of Yeager’s career has been covered in the excellent film The Right Stuff, but yes, his wartime career could be interesting too.
There are many true books that would make great films, and they don’t have to be big names like Yeager either I guess. It’s just a pity most films that are made are fictional and have little bearing on the real events.
Dave HomewoodThanks for the photos Ben. Great to see these relics surviving of such a good TV series, representing not just the WWI period of aviation but also a golden period in television drama too.
I seem to recall in the opening credits of the series there was a much older plane, which may have appeared in the first episode too. Was that a Shuttleworth plane? Or a Magnificent Men replica? It was real primitive like a Wright flyer or something similar
Dave HomewoodIt looks like the one on this page is pretending to be a Tony (Hien) rather than a Zero.
Dave HomewoodThere’s one with a very similar scheme on this new thread
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42717
Dave HomewoodI revived the thread to link to this feature on Hyperscale
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