See the run-in along the Jurassic Coast in the BBMG Lancaster...

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Very cool, tac!
My ur-ancestors hailed from Alfriston, very near Beachy Head.

Very cool, that would be a great ride... and a clear day in the UK! to boot.

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Very cool, that would be a great ride... and a clear day in the UK! to boot.

The days of smog are fifty years in the past - true, there can be mists and, in November, fogs inland, especially in low-lying areas, but the fogs of Sherlock Holmes' London are things of myth and legend, I'm afraid.

Having written that, I'm sure that no part of the USA EVER has fogs.........

Nice! Thanks for sharing that.

RMD

The brave men who flew RAF heavy bombers into the hostile skies over mainland Europe flew 364,514 operational sorties, losing 8,325 planes, 55,573 aircrew KIA (a 44.4% death rate), 8,403 WIA, 9,838 POWs, and 5,327 KIA in training, with an estimated 15% of training aircraft destroyed by students.

This was in exchange for dropping just over 1 megaton of HE (1,030,500 tons) over six years onto Germany and the conquered nations of Europe. Today, the British have both nuclear weapons for aircraft and MIRV missiles for their subs. Just one warhead reentry vehicle (of four) from a British boomer today has as much as four times that firepower, plus 15 more missiles just like it.

A typical aircrew member had a worse chance of survival than an infantry officer in World War I. Taking an example of 100 airmen:

55 killed on operations or died as a result of wounds
three injured (in varying levels of severity) on operations or active service
12 taken prisoner of war (some wounded)
two shot down and evaded capture
27 survived a tour of operations

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Originally posted by HRK:
Very cool, that would be a great ride... and a clear day in the UK! to boot.

The days of smog are fifty years in the past - true, there can be mists and, in November, fogs inland, especially in low-lying areas, but the fogs of Sherlock Holmes' London are things of myth and legend, I'm afraid.

Having written that, I'm sure that no part of the USA EVER has fogs.........

Last time we were in London it was clear, had a nice couple of days, remember we get our impressions of UK weather from TV shows and WWII movies, it's always dreary!

Famous USA fog, San Francisco and the central valley of CA, the valley fog can be brutal...

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27 survived a tour of operations

Which was 50 missions. Many did two or more tours.

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27 survived a tour of operations

Which was 50 missions. Many did two or more tours.

My math master at school, a RCAF veteran with a DFM [as a Flight Sergeant] and double DFC [as an officer] flew 76 sorties - his bombing career stopped with the cessation of hostilities in Europe.

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Originally posted by Pyker:

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27 survived a tour of operations

Which was 50 missions. Many did two or more tours.

My math master at school, a RCAF veteran with a DFM [as a Flight Sergeant] and double DFC [as an officer] flew 76 sorties - his bombing career stopped with the cessation of hostilities in Europe.

A friend of my father, that he used to play golf with, was a tail gunner on Lancasters. He would never speak of it.