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Felt so relaxed.......this morning...just 'Titivating' in the Garden.......some lovely wild flowers (in flower) have found their way and joined my potted plants... Nature is so wonderful........

Cheers Brew. I posted without checking the history. Which is not recommended. However, interesting post about U2's unusual landing operations.

I don't think there is an explanation, as such, but these places seem to have some way of retaining memories of what occurred there.

Jill, I visited the A bomb memorial museum in Hiroshima Japan. You walk around the flame of peace until you find a plaque in your language that explains what happened. Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was an air burst bomb that exploded just below 2,000 feet. It was not far from the Aioi Bridge. Regardless of nationality everyone looks up as if they can see something, I did too. From where I was stood my eyes were drawn to the cenotaph of the victims of the A bomb, almost 300,000 I felt a distinct aura around the place, I could not explain it and I am not religious but there was some

I wasn't contradicting you WW, I don't know if they ever flew from there

It won't, even when the whingers and self-righteous get their way another generation of whiners will come along to replace them

Viewed from another angle And me at the back end of a Lancaster Rog

I think that is disgusting. When is this airbrushing of history going to stop?

Apparently the gravestone has been removed as ‘it might cause offence to black people’. There was a petition to reinstate it but it was rejected.

You're right, it wasn't a base for B52s. I must have seen it elsewhere on a news programme or something. They're still big heavy things though.

When we visited some years ago with a party of schoolkids the were no B52 aircraft but there were U2 spy planes and F4 Phantoms. I was fascinated watching a U2 landing. At a certain point those massive wings produce 105% ground effect and the plane can't be 'flown' lower, nor can the pilot actually see the runway. To get round the problem a car chased it talking the plane down as the pilot simply let it glide until it stopped, whereby just like a glider it fell onto one wingtip. The pilots fly one mission a month, each flight taking way over 12 hours, and prepare with a speci

Love the B52, well almost as much as the Vulcan which is my favourite.

I buy Lotto tickets because I MIGHT win!

Having no debts and 'just enough' to do special things occasionally and to cover emergencies is about right. Doing 'special things' often, as some rich people do, makes them not special anymore. I don't buy lottery tickets because I might win.

B52 pilots taking off prolly needed them for reassurance that they were still on the runway, since at max takeoff weight, 220,000kg, they needed 8000ft to get airborne (and praps the next parish to clear 50ft).

Nigger the dogs grave is to be moved to RAF Marnham if the council proposal goes ahead

Well, I'm knackered! Spent all day getting ready for the annual fishing trip to Ireland. The packing was easy but had to do a lot of panic gardening. 4 of us are off to the NW of the Republic and hoping that the Mayfly season is in full swing. We can't fail really because there will be a barrel of Guinness on the chiller waiting for us at the cottage

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The chap I knew there was Gavin (Harry) Marshall. Although a ‘techie’ he sported the full RAF handlebar moustache. Latterly he was instructing on track days with Porches, Astons and similar. He also works for forces charities based in Grimsby.

The Lancaster was there when I visited Scampton and I had a walk round the Red Arrow hangars and chatted to a few people. There are lots of rumours about Nigger, including that his death was not accidental and was deliberately engineered by someone who didn't like Gibson (and there were many who didn't like him). It is also rumoured that the original grave was sited elsewhere. At the time of my visit, I didn't know much about Gibson or the raid. Not until afterwards did I read Gibson's book, Enemy Coast Ahead and the two outstanding Gibson biographies have only been pu

I flew over Alconbury back in the 70’s when it was a US Airforce base. To make it ‘easy’ for the American pilots the active runway was marked with electrically lit moving arrows!

The protesters were still there when I passed by three weeks ago but the ‘asylum’ camp is on course to go ahead and temporary buildings are arriving. I remember the days when there was a Lancaster bomber parked as a ‘gate guardian’. It was moved to the Lincolnshire Air Museum at East Kirby where it’s being restored and they bring it out for display on air days. It’s sign written ‘Just Jane’ and they hope to get it flying again one day. The flying one is based at nearby Conningsby with the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and there’s one other in Canada which flew over here a few yea

When driving for SPD, I frequently had to visit many of those RAF stations in Lincs and Cambs., including USAF Alconbury. Mainly delivering to the NAAFI and stores. When at Wittering, near Peterborough, I was driving round when a bloody great Harrier jet came in to land and what I thought was just above me. It frightened the life out of me as I thought he'd took my roof off.

I visited Scampton site a few times and have some photo's of Gibsons office etc and the famous grave of a certain Black Labrador, as you said Jill strange feelings, and when I was working at the old RAF Woodhall Spa site I often felt I was not alone especially when locking the main gate one night after everyone had gone home when I turned around to get back in my pickup truck I saw what I can only describe as a column of steam/mist/smoke in front of me about five feet tall, it very slowly drifted away, still not got a clue what it was but you never know The famous grav

I am lost for words phil.