Recent content by CCL2341

Now now children, let’s not get all aerated over nothing. Play nice!

It’s very sad - Mark Long was scheduled to become OC of the BBMF next year. The a/c was a war veteran having completed some 60 missions between April-June 1945, including operations on and after D- Day. Whatever happened to the a/c occurred very shortly after takeoff leaving the pilot with...

Hilarious!

Looks like there might be quite a lot of participants. That means it's pretty much impossible to have an open conversation, as only one participant can speak at any time, so I'd highly recommend some form of structure to the meeting. I use Zoom quite a lot, and I've found that it pays to have...

On the evening of 17th August 1940, generally considered the start of the Battle of Britain, the RAF had a total of 276 Spitfires and 549 Hurricanes registered as serviceable. If you look at 11 Group and 12 Group where the majority of the action took place, 11 Group had 81 Spitfires and 245...

I agree - tantalizingly similar is a good description. The fact that problems unrelated to the MCAS were reported on other a/c confirms the need for not jumping to conclusions

A very apt choice of music

It's often reported that Beurling would shoot at enemy pilots either baling from their a/c or while parachuting, claiming that he didn't want them possibly getting back in the air and shooting at him in the future. However in his own words in the book "Malta Spitfire" he states categorically...

If anyone in the area is interested, Capt. McQueen's funeral service will be held at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum on Wednesday December 7th. This is open to the public

Confirm that it's the type that would have been issued to Royal Observer Corps members in the early 60's in the event of a nuclear exchange. The ROC role had shifted very significantly from the one it had during WW2 which was aircraft tracking from surface observer posts - instead the posts...