Barnes Wallace

[ipf]

Just watching Gibbo busting the dams.....them gerries need the plumbers, one's just gone. :clap:

 

[telectrix]

carling black label dambusters - YouTube

 

[GLENNSPARK]

brilliant engineer was Barnes Wallis

Barnes Wallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[telectrix]

along with reg. mitchell and sidney camm.

 

[Knobhead]

Read the book, there's so much more than in the film.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

here was a brilliant female pilot who worked on the vengence weapons...V1


Hanna Reitsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[telectrix]

didn't she fly hitler out of berlin to switzerland, where he worked in a chip shop till his death in 1987?

 

[ipf]

Read the book, there's so much more than in the film.

Yeah, I'll say. They did OK for 1955, though.

 

[telectrix]

he'd not be able to call his dog by that name now, would he?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

he'd not be able to call his dog by that name now, would he?

a black dog called ------....

its a bit like the old robinson jamjars isn`t it...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

didn't she fly hitler out of berlin to switzerland, where he worked in a chip shop till his death in 1987?

she flew some official who took over from Hermann Goering as chief of the Luftwaffe into Berlin whilst it was under siege from Josep Stalin`s troops

she did a lot of test flying of the V1...as they couldn`t work out what was going wrong with the control surfaces....so they needed someone to fly a manned version to report back on their findings...

 

[ipf]

he'd not be able to call his dog by that name now, would he?

Well.......Tintin called his dog Snowy

 

[ipf]

she flew some official who took over from Hermann Goering as chief of the Luftwaffe into Berlin whilst it was under siege from Josep Stalin`s troops

she did a lot of test flying of the V1...as they couldn`t work out what was going wrong with the control surfaces....so they needed someone to fly a manned version to report back on their findings...

Did they put wheels on it ?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Did they put wheels on it ?

well they must have done....as the V1 production version flew off a skid....

 

[nomad79]

Best dambusters book authored by John Sweetman,I think.