Karl, don't know how I missed your post of the video but it is great.
That's an interesting honor; usually you get a statue or a...er....park named after you
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
That de Havilland Hound .... did I read wiki right in that only 1 ever saw flight? Must have been an expensive failure.
Hmmm....maybe I can find a pint of that in a couple weeks
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
These ales were produced in 2016 to mark the centenary of 208 Squadron. It began life as No. 8 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service on 26th October 1916 flying a mixture of Sopwith Pups, Nieuport Scouts and Sopwith 1½ Strutters and became 208 Squadron when the R.N.A.S. and R.F.C. were merged into the R.A.F. in 1918. It finished life as an Advanced Training squadron flying Hawks and was disbanded and its standard laid up on 22nd May 2016. More information is available from http://www.naval8-208-association.com/index.html
This ale was brewed to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the shooting down of the B.E.2c flown by Captain Gerald Featherstone-Knight in 1916 by a German unit including the Red Baron but that was only the start of his adventures. http://www.greatwarmemoriesmk.co.uk/...ht-gerald.html
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Parachutes have saved innumerable lives over the years, it is fitting that they get some recognition in and of themselves; but it does leave me to wonder, if there is a similar recognition of the inventor of the modern parachute, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand ?
This beer commemorates a crashed B-17.
On December 23rd 1944, as the folk of Great Rollright village Oxfordshire prepared for Christmas, a tragedy occurred. At 6.15pm, that day the peace was shattered by the sound, of an American Boeing B-17 Bomber crashing near the village. Earlier that day the aircraft, a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress serial number 43-38812 (‘812’) of the 749th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, had taken off from RAF Portreath in Cornwall and was heading for its home base at RAF Glatton, near Peterborough. The bomber had, on December 19th, been diverted to Portreath after a bombing mission to Germany.After taking off for home on at approx 4.30pm on December 23rd, ‘812’ seemingly got lost on the way and eventually crashed into the trees near the Triangle at Great Rollright village at 6.15pm, killing the following crewmembers:
Lt. Hendrickson – Pilot, Lt. Graves – Co-Pilot, F/O Williams – Bombardier/Gunner, F/O Kilmer – Navigator, T/Sgt. Riedel – Radio Operator, T/Sgt. Bruer – Flight Engineer/Gunner, Sgt. Hawley – Waist Gunner, S/Sgt. Fitzgerald – Ball gunner
There was only one survivor of the crash, the Tail Gunner Sgt Clifford A. Heinrich
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