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Old 9th Dec 2016, 12:54
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Danny42C
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Geriaviator (p.p. Rupert Parkhouse, #9811),
...I used to have difficulty on the Link Trainer...
So did everybody else ! Its reactions to control movements are best described by Ogden Nash (?): "Tomato sauce, shake the bottle / None'll come - and then the lot'll !"
...We were told that the Battle force in France was going to adopt the low level role to attack industrial targets in the Ruhr...
What a hope ! What planet was our Intelligence living on ?
...officer with RFC wings and Pip, Squeak and Wilfred medals from WW1...
So had my Dad: No wings, but the 'Mons Star', and the War and Victory Medals. Named after three famous cartoon characters of the day.
... projected from a magic lantern...
That dates him ! - and me, I remember them well. I think they call them "Epidiascopes" now.

Danny.

Last edited by Danny42C; 9th Dec 2016 at 12:57. Reason: Box Quotation,