It's all a load of Cannonballs in here! This is the virtual Arsenal pub where you can chat about anything except football. Be warned though, like any pub, the content may not always be suitable for everyone.
Top Londoner wrote:Just watched the Bomber Command Memorial on the beeb. Very touching.
The Tornado fly past went over my roof. Bloody noisey. I missed the Lancaster though.
One of the coolest sounds I've ever heard was the roar of a Spitfire's engine in flight. Just an amazing sound.
Merlin engines have a totally distinctive sound. They send shivers down my spine when I hear them.
A friend of a friend has a Mustang based at Shoreham airport. Lucky bastard. He flies over my workplace every few weeks. Mustangs were under-powered crap before they were fitted with Merlins. They became possibly the best fighter plane of WW2.
olgitgooner wrote:Merlin engines have a totally distinctive sound. They send shivers down my spine when I hear them.
A friend of a friend has a Mustang based at Shoreham airport. Lucky bastard. He flies over my workplace every few weeks. Mustangs were under-powered crap before they were fitted with Merlins. They became possibly the best fighter plane of WW2.
This is true. The Mustang was a brilliantly agile and well designed plane that was let down by it's original engine. When they whacked the Merlin in there the Mustang became THE best fighter of WWII.
But I still love the Spitfire most, that iconic shape of the semi-elliptical wings and the distinctive pilot's canopy and the plucky little Spit soaring up to rip into hundreds of Nazi bombers, the roar of the Merlin, the scream of the guns, The Few against all the odds... Quality.
olgitgooner wrote:Merlin engines have a totally distinctive sound. They send shivers down my spine when I hear them.
A friend of a friend has a Mustang based at Shoreham airport. Lucky bastard. He flies over my workplace every few weeks. Mustangs were under-powered crap before they were fitted with Merlins. They became possibly the best fighter plane of WW2.
This is true. The Mustang was a brilliantly agile and well designed plane that was let down by it's original engine. When they whacked the Merlin in there the Mustang became THE best fighter of WWII.
But I still love the Spitfire most, that iconic shape of the semi-elliptical wings and the distinctive pilot's canopy and the plucky little Spit soaring up to rip into hundreds of Nazi bombers, the roar of the Merlin, the scream of the guns, The Few against all the odds... Quality.
olgitgooner wrote:Merlin engines have a totally distinctive sound. They send shivers down my spine when I hear them.
A friend of a friend has a Mustang based at Shoreham airport. Lucky bastard. He flies over my workplace every few weeks. Mustangs were under-powered crap before they were fitted with Merlins. They became possibly the best fighter plane of WW2.
This is true. The Mustang was a brilliantly agile and well designed plane that was let down by it's original engine. When they whacked the Merlin in there the Mustang became THE best fighter of WWII.
But I still love the Spitfire most, that iconic shape of the semi-elliptical wings and the distinctive pilot's canopy and the plucky little Spit soaring up to rip into hundreds of Nazi bombers, the roar of the Merlin, the scream of the guns, The Few against all the odds... Quality.
Don't you just wish you were British?
No, mate. Too many racists.
ONLY KIDDING!
Don't really care about nationailty tbh. You are either a decent human being or you are a cúnt.
olgitgooner wrote:Merlin engines have a totally distinctive sound. They send shivers down my spine when I hear them.
A friend of a friend has a Mustang based at Shoreham airport. Lucky bastard. He flies over my workplace every few weeks. Mustangs were under-powered crap before they were fitted with Merlins. They became possibly the best fighter plane of WW2.
This is true. The Mustang was a brilliantly agile and well designed plane that was let down by it's original engine. When they whacked the Merlin in there the Mustang became THE best fighter of WWII.
But I still love the Spitfire most, that iconic shape of the semi-elliptical wings and the distinctive pilot's canopy and the plucky little Spit soaring up to rip into hundreds of Nazi bombers, the roar of the Merlin, the scream of the guns, The Few against all the odds... Quality.
Don't you just wish you were British?
No, mate. Too many racists.
ONLY KIDDING!
Don't really care about nationailty tbh. You are either a decent human being or you are a cúnt.
I'm anything but a fan of anything military - my dad was a career military person, neither do I go in for pomp and ceremony etc, but having watched this, the men who survived - laugh and joke with one another about it, but jeeezuss it sounded like absolute hell on earth...the average age was 22yrs, and there were those who lied about their age so they could join up, saying they were older, but were only 16yrs old...can't imagine that happening today.
One of the survivng air men from Bomber Command reads a verse from "The Fallen" (by Laurence Binyon) and it really hits home.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
I'm anything but a fan of anything military - my dad was a career military person, neither do I go in for pomp and ceremony etc, but having watched this, the men who survived - laugh and joke with one another about it, but jeeezuss it sounded like absolute hell on earth...the average age was 22yrs, and there were those who lied about their age so they could join up, saying they were older, but were only 16yrs old...can't imagine that happening today.
One of the survivng air men from Bomber Command reads a verse from "The Fallen" (by Laurence Binyon) and it really hits home.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
I'm no expert when it comes to poetry. But I have to say.....those four lines are as good as it gets.
It's staggering that it took so long for bomber command to be recognised in this way. I was listening to the Livsey R5live show on thursday night and he ran a 2 minute soundbite that was found in the BBC archive, in which they bbc recorded the goings on, on one of their forays. The wellington came under attack by "jerry" just as they dropped their bombs. The calmness in their voices was simply astounding. Yet, even after the broadcast there were a few text messages to the show stating that those that gave their lives should not be recognises because of the blanket bombing causing a great loss of german civilians.
For those young men who had a less chance of survival than those in the trenches in WW1, should have been the first to be recognised for their sacrifice.
olgitgooner wrote:Merlin engines have a totally distinctive sound. They send shivers down my spine when I hear them.
A friend of a friend has a Mustang based at Shoreham airport. Lucky bastard. He flies over my workplace every few weeks. Mustangs were under-powered crap before they were fitted with Merlins. They became possibly the best fighter plane of WW2.
This is true. The Mustang was a brilliantly agile and well designed plane that was let down by it's original engine. When they whacked the Merlin in there the Mustang became THE best fighter of WWII.
But I still love the Spitfire most, that iconic shape of the semi-elliptical wings and the distinctive pilot's canopy and the plucky little Spit soaring up to rip into hundreds of Nazi bombers, the roar of the Merlin, the scream of the guns, The Few against all the odds... Quality.
Don't you just wish you were British?
No, mate. Too many racists.
ONLY KIDDING!
Don't really care about nationailty tbh. You are either a decent human being or you are a cúnt.
