Interesting stuff, especially seeing the brownings coming out almost ready to fire , the visit to the airfields and that gunnery training dome. Wish they could have done a bit more about the reality of the “POW” camps in the south.

All in all a good programme, much better than the endless documentary repeats we are normally subjected to.

Thanks Allan. That sounds like it might also be the one referred to by Roadracer above.

I have located it, well south of Bayeux, that might be a little too much of a diversion in the time available. But it will be retained. Using Google Street View it is possible to see what a beautiful site it is.

Moggy

Think thats the one okay,but cant find the photos to make sure. On that trip we visited every cemetary in or around Normandy so its hard to remember.

But I do seem to remember that there was a young lad who was under 16, lied about his age or something? Died around d-day?

Edit, just did a google search and found this;

http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=4341&language=eng

Remarkable courage.

Didnt the later Hurricanes have a bell shaped end to their exhausts ?

Any ideas on the windscreen ?

PS; what about the tie downs on the outer wings , was that normal for displayed aircraft during WW2 ?

I remember once, gathering drink cans for an appeal for a museum, got friends to help out, collected them,crushed them and after a few months had about 5 or 6 bin-liner bags…

Delivered them one weekend and didnt even get a ” thank you “. If anything it was a chore for the guy to have to walk outside to help carry them in….Never again !

If he had the decency to threat these people with a little consideration he would have earned himself, and his airline,some respect.

All he has done is confirm to the rest of the world that he is what a lot of people over here know him as, a self serving, greedy, loathsome piece of crap.
A prime example of all that was wrong with the Celtic tiger, shame he didnt go down the drain the way the rest of the “greed is good” vultures did.

Spoken as someone who knows several former Ryanair employees, and had the misfortune to put up with the service standards on a few occasions….never again!