Someone who knows my interest in modelling sent me this link....
Thanks Kyt. I don't know if the Ovadal family have this information; I may write to them in case they don't. There seem to be only nine men in...
This letter appeared in my local newspaper this week. I hope the sender gets a result; I'll keep you posted if there is any follow-up Keep...
Have you seen this site? Has a section on "flying saucers" with links to other sites. Unreal Aircraft - Links
It would have been very bold indeed to go with a design that was unconventional aerodynamically as well has having totally new powerplants. Most of...
Well done, an interesting angle on this type of subject. Did you get the job?!
I'm pretty sure it was Maggs I was thinking of; the name rings a bell and the dates are about right. Maybe I was wrong about him being a Bristol...
It does look interesting. These on-line editions of otherwise unavailable books are a great resource. But we still have only 24 hours in a day!
I remember in the late 1980's reading the obituary of a chap who had been a Defiant gunner at the age of about 40 in the Battle of Britain, having...
The Defiant is an aircraft that some accounts write of as a disaster, an example of military incompetence etc. These figures clearly do not bear this...
I found these two clips on Youtube. The first one is a colourised montage, including footage of Manfred von Richthofen and his triplane (but see...
Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Carew - Telegraph Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Carew, who has died aged 89, was an SOE "Jedburgh" officer parachuted into...
The following is an extract from an article by Sir Michael Howard, former Regius Professor of History at Oxford. Basically he says that before 1914,...
Happy birthday David!
It is often said that at Mons, it was supposedly the high rate of fire of the BEF that stopped the German advance. There is probably a degree of myth...
presumably most younger men were serving in the armed forces. But... are you saying 49 is old???!!! :mad:
We think we live in a violent society now, but look how many of these died making arrests! And one "Struck by a car that failed to stop" - not a lot...
It makes me think of Hotel Babylon (for those of you not from the UK, this was a TV serial; the title says it all) Note the "not a clock watcher"...
Thinking about it, this Rumpler has unusual markings; no sign of the German black cross. The aircraft in the background look like Nieuports, with the...
The Stormtroopers "SturmAbteilung" were certainly elite troops whose greatest achievement was the breaking of the British lines at during Operation...
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