SKY News: A WW2 Fighter Jet which was shot down...
SKY News: A WW2 Fighter Jet which was shot down...
Sky covering the excavation of a Hurricane shot down on 26.8.40 over Fobbing Essex. The title was a WW2 Fighter Jet. Who do they employ to do their research, appalling.
A Hurricane is similar to a Typhoon, so I can understand the error! 
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A Tempest in a teacup...
I've been watching the bottom line of their news reports on telly; at least one spelling or grammar mistake every day.
In any case, they're all so young they probably never heard of a fighter aircraft with a piston engine.
In any case, they're all so young they probably never heard of a fighter aircraft with a piston engine.
It's a lost cause but in journalese we don't have aeroplanes, sometimes abbreviated to 'planes, any more as they are all called jets now.
When I and the jet engine were young even the national newspapers employed aviation people as their Air Correspondents but one would think that such folk were discriminated against these days. I refer to people such as Arthur Narracott and Arthur Reed of the Times and Teddy Donaldson of the Telegraph
When I and the jet engine were young even the national newspapers employed aviation people as their Air Correspondents but one would think that such folk were discriminated against these days. I refer to people such as Arthur Narracott and Arthur Reed of the Times and Teddy Donaldson of the Telegraph
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On-line article seems rather better...
Allan, I think Bill Waterton wrote for one of papers too after he left Gloster?
Allan, I think Bill Waterton wrote for one of papers too after he left Gloster?
