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Dying... Spitfire engineer, 95, gets last wish granted to be reunited with iconic plane....
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 15th July 2016
| Nick Enoch
Posted on 07/14/2016 1:49:40 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:15:31 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(What Did Loretta and BillyBob Discuss For 30 Minutes In Phoenix? Grandchildren?)
To: naturalman1975
Great post. Those guys had what it took. Hopefully we will too.
To: naturalman1975
Any excuse:
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:18:23 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: ameribbean expat
Hang out with the flight crew for hours, then pop over to the pub for a pint and some stories? At 95? The man is a pistol!
Good for him, and good for everyone that helped to make it happen.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:19:49 PM PDT
by
wbill
To: naturalman1975
Great story. I read once that the Hurricane’s aluminum-and-fabric design enabled World War I veteran factory workers and mechanics to work on them without having to be retrained, freeing up other people to work on the all-metal Spits. In the Battle of Britain, the Hurricanes could take on the bombers while the Spits went after the Messerschmitts. Old England would have been lost without them.
To: Gay State Conservative
Unfortunately the greatest generation fell asleep at the wheel regarding the protection of the constitution in the1950s through the 1960s and allowed all the leftists ideas to be planted in our country. I.wish they had rooted them out before they all became.institutionalized.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:21:19 PM PDT
by
BRL
To: naturalman1975
“Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Winston Churchill
To: dragnet2
Old vets in front of WW II warbirds fondly remembering their bygone glory days. A common theme...
To: 2banana
Ok. So what do the British call an degreed engineer designing things?Raj?
I'm kidding. Really, I am. Well, maybe.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:26:19 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
To: jumpingcholla34
In his autobiography, Adolph Galland mentions the famous quote in which he tells Goering “A squadron of Spitfires”, in answer to the question of what he would like.
He also said that he just said it to irritate Goering as he actually thought the ME-109 was completely equal to the spitfire.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:27:12 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: BRL
You have powers of deduction. It wasn’t the baby boomers who put all this into motion. It goes back a bit further. A small example, LBJ was born in circa 1908.
This is not to take away from what Americans did during WWII etc.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:30:38 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: BRL
Unfortunately the greatest generation fell asleep at the wheel regarding the protection of the constitution in the1950s through the 1960s and allowed all the leftists ideas to be planted in our country. Clearly *some* members of that generation don't deserve the label "greatest".They're the ones who taught the likes of Gerry Rubin,Bill Ayers and Obama's mother that ours is a terrible,oppressive nation.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:42:14 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(What Did Loretta and BillyBob Discuss For 30 Minutes In Phoenix? Grandchildren?)
To: dragnet2
And as we found out yesterday, FDR’s vice president (not Truman) was a commie sympathizer and chicken farmer. This stuff has been going on since well before the Boomers.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:47:46 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: Kommodor
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:48:11 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: naturalman1975
The Spitfire was a great plane, but its real potential wasn't realized until the Spitfire Mk. IX with its dual-stage supercharged Merlin engine. And it was spectacularly fast once the Rolls-Royce Griffon 65 became available in early 1944 on the Spitfire Mk. XIV model.
I'm glad that this dying World War II veteran was able to see the Spitfire fly again one more time.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:50:10 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: BRL
Sadly true. I’ve made that same observation here several times.
After the great suffering and loss of WWII, the time of peace and suburban home-owning prosperity - kids and beer and new cars and BBQ and sports on TV - lulled our masses and Veterans into acquiescing on the leftist agenda.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:55:21 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(Enough is enough)
To: jumpingcholla34
As I understand it, these wonderful planes were manufactured at what today is the Jaguar XJR plant.
To: 2banana
“what do the British call an degreed engineer designing things?”
A degreed design engineer?
What’s with the sensitivity to titles, 2nd banana? Are you a Brit?
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posted on
07/14/2016 3:07:55 PM PDT
by
386wt
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
07/14/2016 3:09:10 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
To: Chode
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posted on
07/14/2016 3:13:54 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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