Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

Looks like the ball firer on the onboard pinball machine.

Max I managed to get there in 2009 when I was over there. I went with Jack Maddison (ex-rear gunner and standard bearer) for the Aircrew Association Family Service. It was unfortunately to be Jack's last service as he passed away in early 2010. I videotaped the whole service and have sent a copy to ...

Is it possible that it was not referring to the pilot being inexperienced but that he was inexperienced at flying under those conditions.
Kerry

So we are praying for wet weather so that Max will get out of the garden and do some modelling for a change. The top of his head was looking a bit red when I was talking to him on Skype the other day. So it might be an idea for him to get back to modelling before his brain boils.
Kerry

If we're not careful we could end up with Daniel Radcliffe being cast as Gibson. Imagine Dambusters meets Harry Potter!!!!!
Kerry

The point these PC's don't get is that a word in itself is not offensive. It is the intent it is delivered with that makes it offensive. The same word could be an insult or a term of endearment. It just depends on how it is said and to whom. I could take just about any word in the English language a...

On the topic of PC'ness, what are you Brits now going to call that English so called delicacy, the "faggot". The word can't even be used for a bundle of sticks.

Kerry

Very impressive. I gather you don't intend moving in the near future.
Kerry

Alan, I think you've had practice on that limb before ............... Answer no - 1 Whitley, was the first bomber to be equipped with a power-operated turret containing four Browning machine guns. Answer no - 2 Whitley, first bomber to fly over Berlin, on a leaflet drop on 1-2 October 1939. Answer ...

Thanks for the info Adam. Unfortunately Shelley is working part time and doesn't know from one week to the next when she is needed. I'm also in a position where I can't guarantee whether I could get time off. Maybe 2012, unless Max gets his way and we're off to the UK again.
Kerry