I didn't fly on Lancasters for this to happen

[vonuber]

Made me chuckle, it's not even the Daily Fail.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-1449202...

[Eric Mc]

No, I flew on Lancasters to do this -

[vonuber]

Or this:

[anonymous-user]

An old English truck driver, Harry, is sitting in a transport cafe one day and a huge Mercedes artic on German plates pulls up and the driver comes in and sits at the next table.

"Mercedes, great trucks ya". Says Fritz (that was his name). "I pick up a load in Frankfurt, drive to Calais, 6 hours. Cross on the Tunnel, drop my load und return. Fantastic vehicle, German engineering, wunderbar."

Harry considers his cup of Rosy Lee. "Aye" he says. "I had a vehicle like that once. Pick up my load in Norfolk, down to the coast in 20 minutes, cross the channel, up to Franfurt in an hour and a half, drop my load and return".

"Mein Gott, vot vere you driving" said Fritz.

"A fking Lancaster bomber" replied Harry.

[Hooli]

unrepentant said:

An old English truck driver, Harry, is sitting in a transport cafe one day and a huge Mercedes artic on German plates pulls up and the driver comes in and sits at the next table.

"Mercedes, great trucks ya". Says Fritz (that was his name). "I pick up a load in Frankfurt, drive to Calais, 6 hours. Cross on the Tunnel, drop my load und return. Fantastic vehicle, German engineering, wunderbar."

Harry considers his cup of Rosy Lee. "Aye" he says. "I had a vehicle like that once. Pick up my load in Norfolk, down to the coast in 20 minutes, cross the channel, up to Franfurt in an hour and a half, drop my load and return".

"Mein Gott, vot vere you driving" said Fritz.

"A fking Lancaster bomber" replied Harry.

[RDMcG]

I actually flew in a Lancaster a few years ago. It was bloody noisy to say the least. I have video of the flight somewhere and will upload it for those who are interested as soon as can dig it out.

[Jimbeaux]

That's the can of worms opened now; next you are going to have Mohamedshire.

[Eric Mc]

We have a tradition in Britain - bomb a town into oblivion first and 50 years later, to show there are no hard feelings, twin with it.

Watch out for -

Milton Keynes - twinned with Mosul
Basingstoke - twinned with Baghdad
Truro - twinned with Tripoli

And coming up

Dartmouth - twinned with Damascus

[10 Pence Short]

Eric Mc said:

We have a tradition in Britain - bomb a town first and 50 years later, twin with it.

Watch out for -

Milton Keynes - twinned with Mosul
Basingstoke - twinned with Baghdad
Truro - twinned with Tripoli

And coming up

Dartmouth - twinned with Damascus

Not forgetting: London, twinned with London.

[Eric Mc]

10 Pence Short said:

Eric Mc said:

We have a tradition in Britain - bomb a town first and 50 years later, twin with it.

Watch out for -

Milton Keynes - twinned with Mosul
Basingstoke - twinned with Baghdad
Truro - twinned with Tripoli

And coming up

Dartmouth - twinned with Damascus

Not forgetting: London, twinned with London.

As of last weekend?

[marksx]

South Kirkby is an odd place anyway. A couple of German names wont make a great deal of difference

Edited by marksx on Friday 19th August 15:27

[Caulkhead]

Jimbeaux said:

That's the can of worms opened now; next you are going to have Mohamedshire.

We can twin it with the lovely town of Koran in Louisiana, up by Shreveport!

[Ozzie Osmond]

Eric Mc said:

We have a tradition in Britain - bomb a town into oblivion first and 50 years later, to show there are no hard feelings, twin with it.

Milton Keynes - twinned with Mosul
Basingstoke - twinned with Baghdad
Truro - twinned with Tripoli
Dartmouth - twinned with Damascus

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Gallows - feat Betjeman

[Digga]

One of my great uncles was a pilot in WW2. He flew all sorts of stuff spies in Lysanders, Wellington bombers and, during the latter statges was stationed in Northern Italy flying Lancasters. I'd no idea these sorts of missions happened, but the gist was that - for purposes I don't remember - two Lancasters would fly into Germany, unescorted, below radar level, hopping over the Alps en-route. Balls of steel.

He was also involved in one of the 1,000 bomber raids (Dresden IIRC) for which he understandably but perhaps in a way wrongly, felt extremely upset about post-war.

Back to PH territory, as a kid I remember he always drove Mercs...

[Jimbeaux]

Caulkhead said:

Jimbeaux said:

That's the can of worms opened now; next you are going to have Mohamedshire.

We can twin it with the lovely town of Koran in Louisiana, up by Shreveport!

Now there's diversity for you; redneck Muslims.

[Derek Smith]

Digga said:

One of my great uncles was a pilot in WW2. He flew all sorts of stuff spies in Lysanders, Wellington bombers and, during the latter statges was stationed in Northern Italy flying Lancasters. I'd no idea these sorts of missions happened, but the gist was that - for purposes I don't remember - two Lancasters would fly into Germany, unescorted, below radar level, hopping over the Alps en-route. Balls of steel.

He was also involved in one of the 1,000 bomber raids (Dresden IIRC) for which he understandably but perhaps in a way wrongly, felt extremely upset about post-war.

Back to PH territory, as a kid I remember he always drove Mercs...

I saw a Lysander fly at an airshow. According to the literature given out they were used at night to drop all sorts of thing to the resistance, including British military.

It took off at walking pace. The only time I've seen any fixed wing land at less speed was a Harrier.

I was at Farnborough AS, some weeks ago, when a Fokker feeder-liner showed its short take off. It taxied out onto the runway and then by some deft piloting took off in an impresively short run. Then a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer took off in the taxi way.

One up to British aviation.

[Hooli]

Jimbeaux said:

Caulkhead said:

Jimbeaux said:

That's the can of worms opened now; next you are going to have Mohamedshire.

We can twin it with the lovely town of Koran in Louisiana, up by Shreveport!

Now there's diversity for you; redneck Muslims.

I'd love to see their pickups!

[vonuber]

Got no relatives who actually flew lancasters, but my gran used to be in the airforce and used to order spare parts to repair the planes that shot the lancasters down.

[Eric Mc]

Derek Smith said:

Digga said:

One of my great uncles was a pilot in WW2. He flew all sorts of stuff spies in Lysanders, Wellington bombers and, during the latter statges was stationed in Northern Italy flying Lancasters. I'd no idea these sorts of missions happened, but the gist was that - for purposes I don't remember - two Lancasters would fly into Germany, unescorted, below radar level, hopping over the Alps en-route. Balls of steel.

He was also involved in one of the 1,000 bomber raids (Dresden IIRC) for which he understandably but perhaps in a way wrongly, felt extremely upset about post-war.

Back to PH territory, as a kid I remember he always drove Mercs...

I saw a Lysander fly at an airshow. According to the literature given out they were used at night to drop all sorts of thing to the resistance, including British military.

It took off at walking pace. The only time I've seen any fixed wing land at less speed was a Harrier.

I was at Farnborough AS, some weeks ago, when a Fokker feeder-liner showed its short take off. It taxied out onto the runway and then by some deft piloting took off in an impresively short run. Then a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer took off in the taxi way.

One up to British aviation.

Weeks ago? How could I have missed that?

Back in the 1950s, Auster used to perform a STOL demonstration by taking off across the WIDTH of the runway.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

One flew over Brands last Sunday, fantastic machine.