[Misc] Spitfire squadron over Worthing at 16.04h today

[Jim D]

It’s been hit... they’ve done £100,000 worth of improvements.

I don't know about the aircraft but that joke is certainly a war relic.

 

[Dick Head]

I suspect that most of the residents think we are still at war with Germany and that if we are not then we should be!

I get the feeling some of them are still afraid to try yoghurt, let alone curry.





[MENTION=1200]Harry Wilson's tackle[/MENTION]

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

I suspect that most of the residents think we are still at war with Germany/QUOTE]

So that’s what you think?? Pratt....

I think the word you are searching for is 'prat'. I might be a prat but at least I can spell it.

 

[swindonseagull]

You should know grandad

Basics window licker...

 

[Blue3]

They were probably tempted to bomb Lancing.

That may have been the case, but I took the heads up of this fly past as verbatim went up onto Lancing hill where I meet a number of individuals out walking and eagerly told them that this fly past was about to take place, this little group stood expectantly with its numbers growing as more a more walkers joined us as the time reached 14:04 we listerned out for the drone of Merlin engines, sadly nothing it was about this point I thought I had been duped and I had innocently duped quite a large crowd, I relocated myself to the edge and quietly slipped into the trees leaving mumbling of where's that guy gone!

 

[Questions]

I don't know about the aircraft but that joke is certainly a war relic.

Fokker.

 

[LlcoolJ]

That may have been the case, but I took the heads up of this fly past as verbatim went up onto Lancing hill where I meet a number of individuals out walking and eagerly told them that this fly past was about to take place, this little group stood expectantly with its numbers growing as more a more walkers joined us as the time reached 14:04 we listerned out for the drone of Merlin engines, sadly nothing it was about this point I thought I had been duped and I had innocently duped quite a large crowd, I relocated myself to the edge and quietly slipped into the trees leaving mumbling of where's that guy gone!

Meeting up with a number of individuals and sidling off into the woods? Sounds like a fun day!

 

[mikeyjh]

And the unmistakable sound of the beautiful RR Merlin engine.

Or even a Griffon?

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Or even a Griffon?

An engine well known to my Dad, who used to fly Shackletons.

Merlin v Griffon at Beachy Head:

 

[Fountainhead]

Lanc currently over Hemel - wonderful

 

[whitelion]

That may have been the case, but I took the heads up of this fly past as verbatim went up onto Lancing hill where I meet a number of individuals out walking and eagerly told them that this fly past was about to take place, this little group stood expectantly with its numbers growing as more a more walkers joined us as the time reached 14:04 we listerned out for the drone of Merlin engines, sadly nothing it was about this point I thought I had been duped and I had innocently duped quite a large crowd, I relocated myself to the edge and quietly slipped into the trees leaving mumbling of where's that guy gone!

Think you must have misread the time. It was 16.04 apparently.

 

[Fountainhead]

 

[Seagull's Return]

An engine well known to my Dad, who used to fly Shackletons.

Merlin v Griffon at Beachy Head:

Thanks for that - lovely to see and compare. My uncle flew Stirlings and Halifaxes (so, Merlins and Bristol Hercules) in the war, but I'm pretty sure it was Spitfires he wanted to fly really. My old man remembers watching the Battle of Britain fought out over Brighton; we were once up by Varndean and he said he used to see dogfights taking place below the school there as they chased around at low altitude over the town. Hard to imagine these days.

 

[Pickles]

Thanks for that - lovely to see and compare. My uncle flew Stirlings and Halifaxes (so, Merlins and Bristol Hercules) in the war, but I'm pretty sure it was Spitfires he wanted to fly really. My old man remembers watching the Battle of Britain fought out over Brighton; we were once up by Varndean and he said he used to see dogfights taking place below the school there as they chased around at low altitude over the town. Hard to imagine these days.

My nan told me a similar thing when she was at St Lukes school. She told me that she could see the pilot's face.