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Post by gray1720 on Oct 29, 2024 21:38:48 GMT
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Post by Chester PB on Oct 30, 2024 16:13:27 GMT
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 30, 2024 16:26:13 GMT
I may have to watch that, as I've never seen decent footage of the B36 and it's something I'd love to have seen.
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Post by spinno on Oct 30, 2024 16:27:08 GMT
the irony of calling a plane that size a peacemaker...perhaps Mr Netanyahu would like to buy one... |
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Post by davem399 on Oct 30, 2024 16:34:50 GMT
the irony of calling a plane that size a peacemaker...perhaps Mr Netanyahu would like to buy one... Perhaps it was meant to be “piecemaker”. |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 30, 2024 16:39:59 GMT
I assume the idea was it made peace by knocking the crap out of anything underneath. Very Netanyahu.
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Post by willien on Oct 30, 2024 16:46:59 GMT
I assume the idea was it made peace by knocking the crap out of anything underneath. Very Netanyahu. "To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace." - Tacitus on the Roman Empire. |
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Post by MJB on Oct 30, 2024 18:01:31 GMT
There's an exhibit at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection about this.
Not the first time a bomber has landed short of Boscombe Down. I used to live and work on the nearby Wilbury Estate and in WWII a Wellington bomber from an OTU (probably not based at BD as BD was home to 35 sqn, the first Halifax OTU) ran out of fuel and force landed at Warren Farm on the estate. Erks were dispatched to strip the Wimpy of any unnecessary weight and with the bare minimum of fuel to take off and make the couple of mile hop to the base. Given the size of the flat field at Warren Farm, it must have been buttock clenching to get airborne. I can't find anything online about this, but there was someone writing a book about the 'Wilbury Wellington' in the early 1990s. Again I can't find any trace of the book being published.
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Post by Chester PB on Oct 31, 2024 16:38:34 GMT
the irony of calling a plane that size a peacemaker...perhaps Mr Netanyahu would like to buy one... It was not an original name - the Colt revolver handgun acquired it in the 1870s. |
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Post by spinno on Oct 31, 2024 16:40:31 GMT
the irony of calling a plane that size a peacemaker...perhaps Mr Netanyahu would like to buy one... It was not an original name - the Colt revolver handgun acquired it in the 1870s. Fired one of those...interesting...I'm no Wyatt Earp (more Watta Twerp) but I hit a target 3 times out of 6... |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 31, 2024 16:49:25 GMT
It was not an original name - the Colt revolver handgun acquired it in the 1870s. Fired one of those...interesting...I'm no Wyatt Earp (more Watta Twerp) but I hit a target 3 times out of 6... How about a complete Clint? |
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Post by spinno on Oct 31, 2024 17:29:29 GMT
Fired one of those...interesting...I'm no Wyatt Earp (more Watta Twerp) but I hit a target 3 times out of 6... How about a complete Clint? Steady on, old boy! |
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Post by zou on Oct 31, 2024 19:31:36 GMT
It was not an original name - the Colt revolver handgun acquired it in the 1870s. Fired one of those...interesting...I'm no Wyatt Earp (more Watta Twerp) but I hit a target 3 times out of 6... You say target, do you mean a 🎯 or the American supermarket chain? |
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Post by spinno on Oct 31, 2024 19:44:46 GMT
Fired one of those...interesting...I'm no Wyatt Earp (more Watta Twerp) but I hit a target 3 times out of 6... You say target, do you mean a 🎯 or the American supermarket chain? Barn door and banjo spring to mind... It was an archery sized target at about ten paces, the pistol belonged to a collector who knew I'd shot in the cadet force. It wobbled a bit when fired, but then so do most pistols. |
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