Well, I’ve seen one fly at Manching in person and I have to say that she sounds fantastic up close and looks very convincing both on the ground and in the air indeed. I don’t think you’ll be disapointed by FW’s not inconsiderable efforts. Quality of build is fantastic too. Don’t let the absence of a BMW engine dishearten you, she looks like the Real Mcoy as far as is possible with having to substitute another power plant.

Great news that one will fly at Duxford, for however temporary the duration.

Whilst there I spoke to a German pilot who told me about his last minute escape from the Red Army in his stripped out FW190, with two ground crew in the fuselage and one sitting on his shoulders, all the way back over the Baltic to Germany.

http://rides.webshots.com/album/213812882sBYsCi

Does anyone know if the BAE sticker presence means you can’t sell it?

Sounds a bit strange, how could you re-sell even a magazine in that case?

Surely only copying is not allowed if its copyright is owned by a third party, not selling a photo given to you in good faith?

First post on this forum.

I’m currently undertaking a major research project about how fighter pilots in World War One gained their heroic reputations. A necessary element of this research is getting to grips with the ‘Knights of the Air’ mythology – the notion that fighter pilots were the new generation of knights, upholding 19th century ideas of heroism and chivalry in war.

Trouble is, there isn’t a massive amount of detail out there (that I can find at least) about this ‘Knights of the Air’ idea. So I’m asking here whether anybody knows of any literature out there which specifically deals with this particular concept.

Any suggestions, help. comments and ideas much appreciated.

How about Charlie Brown and his B17 and a nice German pilot?
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9747&sid=2273a1b478d7b64aca00189705dc9063

Maple – Not quite sure where your coming from! Are you an Iraqi or do you have a history degree on the area? You maintain that you know more about it then me – well good on you ! As for being ‘spoon fed’ by the U.K media – would that be the media that was mislead by the government on chemical weapons hitting our troops within 45 minutes or possibly the Mod which engaged in a ‘you tell me a name’ charade with the press until guessed at Dr Kelly. It could also be the same ‘spoon-fed’ media which
upset the Mod with it’s honesty on the treatment of our soldiers in hospital.

As for Saddam – what relevance has he got to this ? The government decided on regime change and the wanted control of oil . No oil in places like Zimbabwe so no intervention – simple as that.

David, I have a new found respect for you!

I think we share very similar views on the unnecessary Iraq invasion, the criminal Phoney Bliar and the rest of his rotten barrel of apples and the least said about the Moron George Bush and his nazis the better.

Kelly slipped on a bar of soap.

Let the Iraqi’s keep their heritage, in fact lets restore their Fury and install it in a museum of their choice in the future, if there is anything left after Phoney and George have finished with Iraq….

Lets hope and pray that Iran isn’t next on their list to be ‘Democratised’ next month…

Didn’t take the ‘DOOMSTERS’ long to climb aboard this thread did it!

Just can’t keep it to themselves……

No, in reality the code word “was” N!gger.

History is history and is not for re-writing, correction yes, re-writing, no!There is no place in history for any more of nasty NU LAbour sponsored revisionist Cr@P!