I reckon it'll be a very long wait MPN11, she is quite wise about antiques!
Very unkind,
F-Z (but very funny)
By the way Catherine Southon's my choice - not shy about showing her legs off!
On a more serious point, considering how rapidly things moved during the war in the development of aircraft, etc, I have always thought it was tragic that so many aircrew, having survived a ditching, must have succumbed to hypothermia in those open liferafts before rescue arrived. When were the first enclosed liferafts of the type we were familiar with introduced?