Friar

Dogz and Hounds, Since we moved to this new board I think we had to start again with the pins in our member map (and no, that is not a drinking game played in the Red Lion after Duxford).. Please click on the "Member Map" link in the tab bar at the top of the screen and make sure you have a pin placed. It is nice to know where we all live....

You are not alone Pappy (Nice to...post to you by the way).... During many a boring day in my old job hours would be spent thinking and planning the next dogz event and how to improve my flying

On the matter of the church....I have been summoned to appear before the Abbot to explain why a group of pilots I have been associated with deemed it necessary to put back the roof restoration program...

Spurned on by the excitement of attending Flying Legends I thought It might be a good idea for us to have our own air show. I will put a Duxford map together to fly it on, all you have to do is pick a ride and work out a routine. You could perhaps pair up with a mate (or 2..) to do something special or just show off on your own. Each display should be no longer than, say, 5 minutes? Any plane from the Flying Legends era, (NO FRIGGIN' JETS!) The map will have an airstart spawn area to fly in from. You then land during an hour or so before the show is due to start and park up. There will be a fixed camera position that people will watch from, as if they are spectators at the event. A running order will be prepared. Perhaps someone would like to volunteer to be ATC. They would call up the next person, send them out to a holding grid and then call them in for the display etc. Please let me know what you think. Friar

High furball, check my five, six and seven, Altitude I must gain. Flyers from around the world will come, Held in a gunsight, they will be done. To earth you'll be sent if 20 seconds is called. Excuse us the brief which we should have read. And let us forgive those that forget to hit fly, As they forgive those that vulche against them. Loose us not our Teamspeak server, And deliver us a connection with no lag. The sky is our kingdom, Be it death or for glory, Forever the Dogz Amen

I had the pleasure of meeting Lobster and feel sure he will fit in. Welcome M8

Ok, Just got home. Had to leave the guys early this morning so I could get home to attend a family do. I had THE most fantastic time. It was absolutely brilliant meeting all the guys again. The airshow was breathtaking, the atmosphere at the pub was fantastic. I am running out of superlatives for this trip. A tremendous salute to all that were there........I love you guys..........in a manly butch way of course! Cheers Friar (Tired from the late night drinking, horse from all the singing and talking and laughing and emotional for being with a great bunch)

i am hoping we go saturday. if we dont, i face having to tell my brother that i will not be attending the christening of his first gran-child........

By all means m8, the more the merrier!

Crash ..LOL! Classic mate.....he he he.....

....what about "gee, aint that little cottage quaint?"

nick, you get my pm ok?

I'd buy one!

For thos that have never been to Duxford before...

Well, thank you Sid, it is nice of you to think of me in that way!.....oh...he was talking about the bees......not me.........oh....not even the beautiful bit........ah......

Just come across this site. Lots of great stories and accounts. Could be really useful for anyone building BOB Missions........ http://www.battleofbritain1940.net/contents-index.html

great post fruitbat... I have the Fat Les versions (used for the footie a couple of years ago) I play it often in the car....loud......

Jabo, why spoil a perfectly good looking jacket with a logo for Coventry FC......go Eagles!

Whilst researching for a new event I am working on I came across the article below..... "The Luftwaffe bomber was in trouble. It had dropped its 4,000lb cargo of bombs over London and was heading home. As it flew over Kent it was hit by anti-aircraft fire from a gun emplacement beside the Medway at Upnor. Then pursuing Spitfires and Hurricanes pounced – but for once they didn’t seek to blow the enemy plane from the sky. The pilots from 66 and 92 squadrons recognised that this was no ordinary Junkers bomber. Earlier an order had gone out to all units to capture one like it, intact. The bomber pilot, Fritz Ruhlandt, was given no choice but to attempt a forced landing on the Kent marshes. On the ground, soldiers from the 1st London Irish Rifles billeted at the Sportsman Inn on Graveney Marshes between Faversham and Seasalter heard the crippled bomber as it plunged towards them. Under-offizier Ruhlandt, despite being wounded, brought down his plane a few hundred yards from the pub. He and his injured crew members crawled from the wreckage. A dozen or so soldiers in the pub grabbed their rifles and rushed towards the scene. And so, on September 27, 1940, the scene was set for an historic encounter of the Second World War. The Luftwaffe crew had armed themselves with two machine guns and a sub-machine gun and opened fire. The soldiers returned fire but were forced to take cover under a hail of bullets. It was the only battle of the Second World War on the British mainland and the incident was thought to be the first in nearly 300 years in which armed invaders had fought with troops on English soil. The dtramatic incident is featured in The Forgotten Frontline, an exhibition at Whitstable Museum illustrating how the Kent coast was affected by the war seven decades ago. The Irish rifles re-grouped and crept along a dyke towards the Germans. When they were about 100 yards away one of the airmen waved a white flag but as the soldiers closed in fighting erupted again before the Germans were over-powered. The drama didn’t end with the surrender of the aircrew. Like many Nazi planes, the Junkers 88 was fitted with time-bombs to prevent it falling into enemy hands. The soldiers had discovered and removed just such a device. Unknown to the prisoners, one of the soldiers could speak German and he heard the fliers talking about a second time-bomb due to go off at any moment. Captain Cantopher from the Irish Rifles courageously rushed back to the plane, found the second device and defused it in the nick of time. By doing so he helped the war effort – for the Junkers 88 was only two weeks old and was fitted with a secret and extremely accurate new bombsight. The outcome Captain Cantopher received the George Medal for his bravery. The Junkers 88 was taken to RAF Farnborough for examination and was said to have provided highly valuable information. The Luftwaffe air crew went to prisoner-of-war camps. The riflemen were mentioned in dispatches for tactical ability which enabled them to force the surrender of the heavily-armed Luftwaffe crew. Unofficially, however, it is said the riflemen had their knuckles rapped for opening fire without being ordered to do so. Historic note The Battle of Graveney Marsh has the distinction of being the last exchange of shots on mainland Britain by a foreign invading force. The encounter was believed to be the first confrontation with an enemy on British soil since the French landed at Fishguard in 1797, although on that occasion not a shot was fired."