Australian Dambuster - Les Knight

Discussion in 'Memorials & Cemeteries' started by spidge, Oct 28, 2007.

  1. spidge

    spidge Active Member

    Noticed this after a modern Day RAF simulation of Les Knight RAAF and his crew to see if they could pull it off.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3912185.shtml

     
  2. Kyt

    Kyt Άρης

  3. morse1001

    morse1001 Guest

    I can't remember the name, but it was done by the BBC to see if modern day people could carry out the same job as done fifty years ago! i
     
  4. spidge

    spidge Active Member

    Sorry Kyt,

    Sorry if it seemed confusing as I omitted to put in the BBC link.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3912185.shtml

    Missed the intro and cannot find the foxtel guide to viewing. The present day RAF crew (female pilot) simulated in a Lancaster. I had a visitor near the end and only caught that they had succeeded but hit to the left of where Knight did.

    They were using only ww2 available aids in navigation etc.

    This was possibly the same guy being interviewed however a few years older and a lot greyer.

    Much was said about how they had did a dummy run at the Eder and used a new method to adjust the fast speed after quickly dropping altitude to line up the dam.
     
  5. spidge

    spidge Active Member

    Seems to be the same one!
     
  6. morse1001

    morse1001 Guest

    I tried the BBC website but there was nothing there about the programme and yes I remember the female pilot.
     
  7. Kyt

    Kyt Άρης

  8. Kitty

    Kitty New Member

    I was just thinking it was CH4.

    I watched it and was mildly digusted that they recalculated the final run so they did hit the dam. That was a cop out.
     
  9. morse1001

    morse1001 Guest

    It shows how the memory works! never saw more than five minutes at a time!
     
  10. Kitty

    Kitty New Member

    i watched the entire 2hour (?) programme. never been so bored in my life.
     
  11. spidge

    spidge Active Member

    The vet interviews were good!
     
  12. Kitty

    Kitty New Member

    yes they were, but not near enough of them.
     

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