Wow, font overload…
What was the question??? My mind is spinning!!!
Like the FW-190 with the Russian radial? 🙂
I think this is wonderful. I’ll have one, please.
Isn’t it amazing how much it looks like a Sea Fury from the front?
Well dodgy…
Seeing this airplane in person does nothing to make me like it. First impression was that it was painted using a 10 year old plastic model for inspiration. I cannot believe that they ever looked anything like this while on active service.
Ooooh, bit dodgy.
Hard to tell, but looks like Flt. Lt. Chesley Peterson DSO DFC, on the right and Gus Daymond DFC next to him. Peterson was the second CO of 71 Squadron, and Daymond was also in 71 until transfer to the USAAF.
I believe Black Pudding is mainly a northern “delicacy”. I’ve never heard of the Germans being blamed but presumably somebody had to invent it. It consists largely of pig’s blood, with disgusting looking lumps in it.
That’s why Andy and Vanessa wouldn’t tell me what was in Black Pudding last week. “Just eat it and don’t ask any questions”, was the advice I was given.
Have her try pork scratchings, stilton cheese (you can’t get good stilton in the US) and a meat pie. Of course a few pints of a cask ale couldn’t hurt. Just don’t let her drink lager.
~Adding Mr Hairyplane to the list of visitors to Duxford who must be searched before leaving the site…Mr Patterson of course being top of the list~ :p
Tut tut…and don’t think that if you wear a big baggy parka you’ll be able to get half a Magister past me without me noticing…;)
Too late…Now, how do you start this thing??? 😀
Oh great, now we’ve lost Andy. First JDK, and now AIB.
Now where did I put that milk carton???
Wait, let me check with my wife…
No??? No??? Can you believe that she said no???
And how was your talk for the Royal Aeronautical Society, Mr. Hiscock? I tried to attend but was turned away at the door.
Don’t know why you have to be 5’10 or above to be in the RAeS. Seems like a silly rule to me.
SRP
Just be careful with the weight and balance. It’s a two passenger airplane with four seats.
…when I look at a Lancaster I see more than a wonderful machine, I see a weapon of mass destruction.
I see a means to an end.
“They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind…”
I know there are Fouga Magisters for sale here in the US for around $50,000. 28,000 quid for a flying jet is not bad.
Strikemasters and Casa Jets can be found for about the same amount. Nice examples, with good paint and radios are about double that.
“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a dozen other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”
Definately the most memorable aspect of “The World at War” for me was this interview with Sir Arthur Harris. Thanks for posting it Peter, and reminding us that, even in early 1945, the RAF was conducting total warfare against Nazi Germany. The RAF did their duty that night; end of story.
Steve