The end of a successful flight.
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The end of a successful flight.
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Another drink remembering the Spruce Goose...
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:D Ahhh! Now we are posting Wines I must add this one named after Manfred von Richthofen.
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We have seen wine in this thread before, Barry.
The beer from Belgium is called Red Devil's Fuel.
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How this ale received its name I am not sure. I find it difficult to believe that the brewers in the U.S.A. had even heard of an R.A.F. troop transport aircraft that was pressed into service as a bomber at the start of the W.W.2 campaign in North Africa but strange things do happen sometimes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Bombay
Back to an air manoeuvre...
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Today we remember some skilled and daring pilots.
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:D Here is a group of Beers or Wines available at the recent Shuttleworth Air Shows in the UK.
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Good ones, Barry! I intend to visit Shuttleworth one day.
Here is another Test Pilot beer.
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Another Test Pilot, but a wine this time, with an F-86 Sabre on the label.
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Another wine; this one is called Pilot's View.
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Heres hoping that no-one ever does this again.
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This brewery's name remembers a small but important item on an aircraft.
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Attachment 250231 Here is a couple of brews from Iowa. Looking forward to trying them this weekend.
Those look like good ones, Dave.:thumbsup:
Here is one for night time.
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From France there is...
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Isn't that a coffee extract sample, David?
The bottle looks awfully small for a beer...
I am very sorry. It is not a drink at all. It is for use with an e-cigarette. The flavour is described as," A robust black coffee with a swirl of cream & whiskey paired with almond biscuits.". I must be more careful in future.
This drink is beer. It is a brown ale named after the 430 Mk X Avro Lancasters built in Canada during WW2.
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This beer has been produced specially for the Vulcan Restoration Trust.
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Also produced for the Vulcan Restoration Trust is this amber ale.
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I could support the Trust for both those beers ;)
Karl
This ale commemorates an event 90 years ago.
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The brewery writes," On 9 June 1928 the Southern Cross, a Fokker F.VIIb/3m Trimotor, settled on to the grass of Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Aerodrome, having left Oakland, USA, 10 days earlier. The aircraft flew 11,585km and had been airborne for 84 hours, with refuelling stops in Hawaii and Fiji.
Chuffed with the first ever trans-Pacific flight, the Prime Minister, Stanley Bruce, presented a cheque for £5,000 to the flight crew. Equally pleased the flight’s financial backer Californian, George Hancock, waived any right to recover his substantial investment.
It was Saturday night and hero Australian pilots, Brisbane born Charles Kingsford Smith “Smithy” and Melbourne born Charles Ulm, together with Americans, radio operator James Warner and American navigator and engineer Harry Lyon were thirsty, cashed up and debt free.
It’s not recorded what beer they celebrated their world record breaking flight with, but “Smithy that’s Fokkin’ Good Beer” was heard well in to the night.
Alliance Airlines, flying the width and breadth of Australasia, is the world’s largest operator of Fokker aircraft and proudly commemorates the 90th Anniversary of the Southern Cross’s historic flight with Smithy’s FGB. Cheers!
The Southern Cross is on public display near Brisbane Airport’s International Terminal."
Just the thing to drink while watching (or playing) the Dam Busters! :thumbsup:
Karl
Given yesterday's display, what could be more appropriate than
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Another special brew for the RAF's centenary.
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Another beer to salute the RAF centenary.
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If you were wondering about the beer showing the Dakota, here is a picture of the full label.
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Related to the last one, they made.
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They used to make this.
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Another drink for the RAF centenery.
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Reminded me of this one Mike.
The buffalo theory.
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest. And, when a herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we all know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine!
That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers, or in my case a few G and ts.
Kyte. :FOK: