Battle Of Britain Day

[webbo3]

Today is Battle of Britain day and I’ve not heard a peep on the news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6163129/Battle-Britain-Day-2018-need-know.html

[Sqad]

Eddie.
The home of the Battle of Britain flight is R.A.F Coningsby.Lincs.

[Peter Pedant]

My parents knew Paravicini in Yeovil
forty years later I read his obituary and hadnt realised what am important practical contribution he had made to the design

The sptifire was made in dispersed factories - so it couldnt be bombed in one night. One was along Oldhan Rd - near the Kippax which features in um Life on mars
they found the old designs in 1960- - - and cleared them out

[Zacs-Master]

Interesting fact 46c:
The final 1954 version of the 109, the dedicated ground-attack HA-1112-M1L “Buchon” fitted with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.

[retrocop]

Interesting fact 46b:
The Messerschmitt me109 prototype flew with a British-made Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine.

Interesting fact 46c
The later model of the North American P51 Mustang flew with the RAF with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine which was betterer. :-)

[Zacs-Master]

Aaaaargh! We can’t have two 46c’s

[retrocop]

I can't type as fast as you. :-(

[THECORBYLOON]

Which bits of either 46c's were interesting?

[ToraToraTora]

I saw this thread and straight away wondered how far I would have to read before I encountered the anti British comment. Well I made it to page two and of course the arch anti British member gromit manages to creatively link both VB and AB. For the most part though well done everyone. No sign of either VI but fair enough I respect them being silent rather than coming up with some snide right on AB comment. For my part I echo the historic words of TGM himself.

[retrocop]

TTT
Who or what is/are VI apart from the Vergeltungswaffen which was developed long after the Battle of Britain was won?

[hereIam]

Ditto to Baldric at 21:24.

[zebo]

Our vicar started off by saying it was the Anniversary of the Dam Busters, er, No, the Battle of Britain, err don't know what anniversary! How hard can -1940 be? Pity there's no ecclesiastical Ofsted for preparation. We also had the hymn to the Dam Busters tune, God is ouu Strength and Refuge, OH wouldn't let me do the goggles!

[Peter Pedant]

I think it is rather AB
( AB-typical that is!)
to have comments like
//Baddler Britain wod dat den? foo - was there one? when den?//
mixed with ( er mixed wiv...)
//The final 1954 version of the 109, the dedicated ground-attack HA-1112-M1L “Buchon” fitted with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.//

sort of - - I can tell I am on Ayyyy-beeee ! ( in sing-songy voice)

The carburettor problem ( gravity fed ) and so the pilots lost power at the bottom ( or top!) of a roll, was solved by Hedda Gabler with a spring loaded value, innit ?
An instance of a woman getting an important patent - like Mae West ( come up and see me sometime) patenting a torpedo tracking mechanism.

Interesting fact 47 - the mark XIV spitfire was better than the first generation jets ( gloster meteor)
this is seen in engineering where the finally honed version of X is better than the early version of the soon-to-be much better successor Y
( and the engineers call that 'dinky donky doo' or something

[webbo3]

Thank you for all your answers.

[Peter Pedant]

// Which bits of either 46c's were interesting?//

oh ( first of all redundant apostrophe) - "Which bits of either 46Cs were interesting?"

all of them - merlin engines being GOOD were used everywhere.
Why do bicycles in 1820 look like bicycles in 2010 ? - because the first design was the optimal design

and I suggest the merlin engine was another example
and that jets were not

I thank engineering students at my university giving a law student a berth. If you had a choice between spending time with ( sorry wiv) men who were disputing the advantages of Mk Xiii spitfires compared to Mk XIV, compared to other brainy students who asked - "wot dat den - wossee on abart den? foo!" which ones would you choose ?