Dambusters 75th Anniversary

Naaah, nah, nah, nah, nah-nah-nah-nah?

Cancelled high winds

no it wasnt. The Lancaster was cancelled due to high winds but was replaced by a typhoon jet.

A hawker typhoon would've been better .

That's a shame, 3300 of them made and apparently only 1 left intact.
If I'd been around at the end of the war with a bit of money I'd have been buying all these classic planes going to the scrapyard for a couple quid.
Be worth a fortune now. I'd never get anything done for sitting in them saying "ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-acka!"

What happened to the remake of the film , touted in the press a few years ago with Digger the Dog?

The dog's name will *trigger* a few people.

What happened to the remake of the film , touted in the press a few years ago with Digger the Dog?


The original version is being rereleased in 400 cinemas around the country with no change to the dog's name.

Cant believe this: Went to watch the Lancaster Bomber over the Dams yesterday cancelled due to high winds but sent a typhoon replacement which  was 1/2 hour late.

Flew over  this morning but not announced as unable to put in safety traffic measures, but to cap it all flew over me house on way back went to window but missed it as  went directly overhead.

Labrador retriever, as I recall.  Anyone remember what colour it was?

Surprised to learn an operation of this kind could no longer take place due to Geneva Convention.

Good job this guy wasnt on duty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmhR2JK1VE

These foreign holiday hotels often put on an early show for the kids.
And a standard feature is the ''I am the Music Man' routine.

Where the kids dance to the music with a different little dance for each particular part of the song.

The part that amuses me is when they get to the Dambusters March.

Then all the kids Germans and Italians included, are going round in a circle with their arms outstretched like wings mimicking the bombers.

I wonder who they imagine they're bombing?

On Film4 now, and the 'N' word dog.

Short video showing the parallels between the bomb-run scene in The Dam Busters and Star Wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M

As a kid, we use to have a caravan at Reculver, where they tested the bouncing bomb. the old rusty bombs use to be under the steps leading down to the beach, there were about 3 or 4 of them. i think they took them all away to the imperial war museum and RAF Manston..
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Original film is so damn good so why remake it all ? And the dog was called what it was - had nothing to do with racism. Absolutely pathetic to change the name !!!

Geneva convention was before ww2? Was there a new clause about not harming water based engineering works?

What's a bit scary and just shows the advance in technology is that the lancaster, which was actually known for having a huge load, (NO s****ing at the back there), one of the biggest of the period and far bigger than say a B17, that great big 4 engine plane ..

That dinky single crewed Eurofighter can carry approximately the SAME weight of bombs. Most people would never remotely guess that!

LOL That is just freakin high-larious consdiering the comments above about the dog.

if I type sni66ering, as in nasal chortling, the betfair sweary filter ******s it out :)

My missus is from Woodhall Spa which is where the Memorial is located.  It's a few miles from RAF Coningsby.


The next door neighbour worked at RAF Coningsby. If there was a plane leaving at the same time, it would drop him over his house.  Sometimes he'd misjudge his jump and land in her back garden.

He'd sometimes be left dangling from a tree for hours with his parachute tangled in the branches.