[TheForge] OT: this is driving me crazy...

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

My father co-piloted the lead plane on first daytime , uncamoflaged(sp) daytime bombing raids over Germany.
He said that around that time, Britain was down to one single, functional fighter plane that they could scramble to respond to the German bombing runs.
Good thing it wasn't needed to make movies.

On Nov 11, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

Wow... that actually shined my day up.

Thanks.

On 11/11/2012 2:08 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
> Wikipedia says [1] they built a lot of full-scale wood&  fiberglass
> models for non-flying planes.  The real ones, airwothy or not, were
> assembled from museums and collectors all over Britain (and Canada).
> I doubt they blew any of them up.
> 
> And don't forget that in 1969 -- 43 years ago -- there were a lot of
> WW II vets who remembered every detail of their war years.  I was
> working for one who served as an aircraft mech in the pacific fleet.
> 
> ObSmithing:
> 
> One more metal bit to my carpentry project: A door latch that dogs the
> cellar door top&  bottom to replace an assortment of crappy doo-dads
> nailed on by klutzes over the last 100 years . The shaft turns in a
> double ball bearing sawn out of a part for some kind of gym/exercise
> machine. [2] (I was given a self-storage-unit-full of parts left over
> from a failed repair biz for such machines.) The rest is jr. high
> metal-shop except with a nice European-style forged handle suitable
> for use with mittens on.
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_(film)
> 
> [2] Never throw anything away, eh?
> 
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