Wingman Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 The Colditz Glider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Also tonight the Falklands Vulcan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 They look great programs. The Vulcan one is already set on the recorder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytilbroke Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Save time looking for it, channel4 at 8pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus O'Leprosy Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 thanks fly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus O'Leprosy Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 WINGMAN. the only thing I can find today is "Escape to the Country" are they visiting houses in the Colditz glider? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bott - Moderator Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 The Colditz glider link takes me to a Radio Times page about a R/C reenactment of the Glider flight that never took place at Colditz. Looks fascinating thanks wingman. Right at the bottom it says The Channel 4 documentary will be shown in early summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Cooper Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Tuesday on channel 5, at 20.oo or 8 pm WW1 top gun Documentry looks ineresting. Dave. {;0) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Bennett Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 they build replica's and actualy fly them in mock combat. should be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 Oh yes, yum yum, I'll be glued (doped?) to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bott - Moderator Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Posted by Dave Cooper on 26/03/2012 20:15:50: Tuesday on channel 5, at 20.oo or 8 pm WW1 top gun Documentry looks ineresting. Dave. {;0) Not long to go now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tony Bennett Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 25 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Eamonn Fahey Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Well? Was it any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 If (like me) you missed it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Brilliant! Loved it - have already watched it twice! Just not enough of it for me. Edited By Wingman on 27/03/2012 22:52:56 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Bennett Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 where can i get a job like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I'm sure there's the odd nit that can be picked but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have to admit that I wasn't aware that the DH2 had been seen as such an effective response to the "Fokker scourge" although I don't lay claim to any in depth knowledge of WW1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hargreaves - Moderator Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I liked the French loony who fitted "deflectors" to his propellor......would have been interesting if a round had been deflected back at him..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Posted by Steve Hargreaves - Moderator on 28/03/2012 09:42:08: I liked the French loony who fitted "deflectors" to his propellor......would have been interesting if a round had been deflected back at him..... TBH I couldn't see that there was much possibility of that happening with the angles involved but the interrupter gear was a much more elegant solution. I could have done with something similar when I lost a tail rotor blade on a heli some years back - it hit a very nice CF main rotor blade and made a nasty mess it - luckily it was in a low hover and it all arrived back on the ground under a measure of control... Edited By Martin Harris on 28/03/2012 09:59:19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamonn Fahey Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Posted by Steve Hargreaves - Moderator on 28/03/2012 09:42:08: I liked the French loony who fitted "deflectors" to his propellor......would have been interesting if a round had been deflected back at him..... Not so "loony" Steve. Malfunctions in the Interupter Gear mechanism led to many pilots shooting off their own propellers. Wiki article Edit spelling. Edited By Eamonn Fahey on 28/03/2012 10:09:13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hargreaves - Moderator Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Thats an interesting article Eamonn......I found this bit interesting.. The Lewis gun, used on many early Allied aircraft, proved next to impossible to successfully synchronise due to its open bolt firing cycle. In an open bolt firing cycle, it is impossible to predict the exact time any given round will fire, and for obvious reasons this is an unattractive characteristic in a weapon one is attempting to fire between the spinning blades of a propeller. Photographs of apparently synchronised Lewis gun mountings on RNAS aircraft were probably in fact free firing – hardly a satisfactory solution. So thats why the SE5 had a Lewis gun mounted on the top wing I guess...I always wondered because by the time the SE5 was launched the interupter gear method was well established.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Posted by Martin Harris on 28/03/2012 09:17:09: I'm sure there's the odd nit that can be picked but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have to admit that I wasn't aware that the DH2 had been seen as such an effective response to the "Fokker scourge" although I don't lay claim to any in depth knowledge of WW1. After a bit of basic research, it seems that the program has missed rather a important point (although I apologise if it's me that missed it) in that the rotary engined DH2 was the successful counter to the Eindekker but was a single seater with a (semi) fixed machine gun and not with a gunner as shown. I believe that the replica is a DH1 which only saw active service in the Middle East if Wikipedia is to be believed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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