Recent content by pbehn

A poster here who was a civilian airline pilot said that todays large wide bodied jets can be trimmed to be slightly tail heavy on climb so the plane climbs "cleaner" saving fuel compared to using the elevators. When flying to Japan one time we were invited into the cockpit (how times change...

My uncle was in the Royal Observer Corps, At D-Day he and a colleague were stationed on a US "liberty" type flak ship, identifying "friend or foe" to the Captain/ head gunner. This worked well on the flak ships, but the rest of the fleet just blasted away at everything, in the end only P-38s...

In the earliest days of aviation in UK a plane flew across country and the locals on the land who saw it went to the church thinking that judgement day had started.

When range is correctly taken into account the P-47A-J takes the top ten places.

You dont need to look very hard at European procurement to find massive over expenditure on completely crap "kit" Frequently only a few are made just to prove it can be done.

It is unclear whether you are discussing WW2 history or a present day conspiracy theory, where every mistake or misunderstanding while conducting a war thousands of miles away in many different theatres is seen as an example of "bomber mafia" type corruption. Amazingly despite all this grift...

Nonsense.

Me too, in 1979 I did the Lyke Wake Walk and my boss got us all lost, we were wandering around the "golf balls" at around 2 AM, must have happened all the time because we didnt see any security.

Were you near this Rochie?

The P-47 didnt have the range to perform the longest missions, whatever a pilot may prefer he wouldnt prefer running out of fuel and ditching in the North Sea. I blame the bomber mafia in all discussions of range.

It wuz the bomber maaaaafia etc etc etc......

A very long time ago I was an industrial radiographer as part of my job, so I had a "film badge" to measure any radiation I was exposed to. The "theory" of it all made my head spin all RADs and REMs Curies Sieverts milli Sieverts Becquerels...... I would strongly advise anyone with any concerns...

There's all sorts of stuff around there from the Beaker people to industrial revolution remains like Rosedale Kilns. Just around the corner from the Cawthorn Roman Camp was Keldy Castle used by Canadian troops training in the build up to D Day, their "universal carriers" cut into the peat and...

Cawthorne Camp - Wikipedia As a kid my uncle used to take me here before anyone knew about it, like a bracken covered adventure playground, worth a visit.

I've been there myself on a school trip, it does look a bit like a dry stone wall but bigger, built on a natural geological fault called the Whin Sill Ridge Whin Sill - Wikipedia