OK, not Battle of Britain, I know, and a diversion from Barbara's wonderful reminiscences of life just up the road from me but could we return briefly to the case of inaccuracies on the RAF History part of the Service's website?
I was idly trawling through said site in the pursuit of information about the Stirling when I happened upon this:
RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary .
It would appear the that one of the major drawbacks of the Hampden's design was that ..."it was not fitted with powered fun turrets".
Does nobody at the MOD proof-read copy before publishing it or was the fun turret, like the Enigma machine, yet another great British invention that for decades remained shrouded in secrecy ? Surely Duncan Campbell should have told us by now...
