That certainly applied to the US Army in Vietnam. Can't speak for the other services.

Indeed.
Aussie: Hard drinking, BBQ taming, loutish, hate the royals etc.

Until you actually go over there and find that they are church going, lightweights who go to bed at 9pm and love the Royal Family.
I couldn't believe how quiet Sydney was on a week night after about half past nine. :E

Hardly......'Our Nige' was a qualified Aerospace Engineer......gave up his job with Lucas to pursue a full time racing career.....which possibly gives him the very knowledge that CY lacked :E


I wonder if CY has ever wondered if the attitude of the Brits he met in WW2 was just them reacting to his own arrogant persona ...... nah of course it wouldn't :rolleyes:

Turin, remember the six o'clock swill.

They would get ratted by 6 then we would carry on till midnight, as for pints, I think they had 3-4 glasses to the pint.

I think the Americans had smaller pints but 4 to a pitcher. Saved on refill time.

Personally I thought that Chuck's cameo appearance in The Right Stuff was very amusing:


Question is, how much acting was he actually doing....;)

Until you actually go over there and find that they are church going, lightweights who go to bed at 9pm and love the Royal Family.
I couldn't believe how quiet Sydney was on a week night after about half past nine.

Church? Are you kidding?

When in Oz I have helped ring the bells for weddings.

No hymns in any of the services.

So I asked one vicar. He said "no point: they don't know the tunes, or they won't sing. They just come for the wedding". Short service though!

Turin,
I don't know where or who you stayed with when you were in Sydney - but I think I could guess.
Anyway, if Chucky-boy lobbed into town here with that attitude, he wouldn't have lasted long.
We have enough w@nkers of our own, thanks.

The Americans....terrible folk they are....always taking advantage of the British!

Perhaps a quick read might refresh some memories here.

A fellow named Churchill was not so dismissive of aid and assistance provided to the British during World War Two.

You might consider the legal issues FDR had to confront when trying to provide assistance to the British.

You harp you had to "pay" for that assistance...but you conveniently overlook you had not paid the Bill from WWI when you once again came with your hand out for assistance in the Second World War.

In December 1940....you were skint for funds to provide for your own defense.

FDR found a way to continue the military and economic aid to Great Britain.

https://history.state.gov/milestones...945/lend-lease

Wealthy, white nonagenarian in 'crotchety old git' shocker.

During my time in the RAF my then sqn (206) took part in an exercise on detachment to Pax River USN base. On arrival we found that we had, in groups of 4 or 5, been allocated host families of members of the local sqns.


We were treated as family, invited to eat with them in their homes and taken sightseeing locally by said hosts.


Yeager is entitled to his opinión, based on his own experiences but from my personal experience I don´t believe it was widely shared.

Shack, we had an extended time in Offutt. We were hosted by Harry Bendorf in return of previous hosting with John Pack. There were two other USAF majors there. Just before we returned to UK we hosted them in the O Club. While there we went u/s again. Immediately Ralph Kelly told us to go to bed, we were to fly as pax in his C97 to Riverside. On return they had to shut down an engine but he pressed on as we were a VIP deterrent crew. When we landed it was to find a very worried and now relieved DetCom as our jet was now serviceable.

The following day it went u/s again but that's another story.

All British people are awful with terrible teeth and warm beer shocker!

I have always found Americans to be amongst the most friendly and cooperative people I have ever met. Their husbands are a different matter.

Posted by PN
Never happened in Bodo or Machrihanish;)

PN - Thank you for the correction, I didn't have time to research the Diego Garcia deal, when I posted previously.
However, I note that even the Diego Garcia deal was still pretty one-sided, and the U.S. Diego Garcia deal negotiators must still be clinking champagne glasses over their "steal of a deal" ... :(

Getting back to the "first past Mach 1" issue; whilst there is little in the nonsense about the F-84 on the first flight there seems incontrovertible evidence that it subsequently went supersonic well before the X-1.

I must have lucked in when meeting Bader (another childhood hero) as he was quite pleasant and affable; his autograph is tucked away somewhere safe, unlike the complete Beatles set which my sister has lost!

The hospitality from my many encounters with Americans has always been superb and I like to think it has always been reciprocated, but to be concerned because one elderly famous man may have a bee in his bonnet just whiles away the hours, I suppose ;)

Brother Eacott.....the truth is you always know where to find Cake and that mitigates your rough edges that are not worn down by your long tenure in Oz.

Americans - Late for the wars that mattered - started the others.

The first flight of the F-86 to be monitored by NACA recorded Mach 1.03 on 21 November 1947. Welch had been flying the same profile on the days prior to the X-1 flight, although they were unmonitored. The X-1 flight was annotated "the first in level flight". Recognition perhaps that they were not the "very first"? Officially the 86 didn't make it until 26 April 1948.

Gentleman
 

You Sir, are a gentleman.
I met an American some years ago and he was brash, rude, loud and self opinionated. I really disliked him and that set my own opinions of Americans right there. I'd literally spit venom at the sound of their voices.
Then a few years later, I travelled round Australia and met a family of Americans on holiday - sorry, vacation! They were the nicest people I'd met there after four months. We enjoyed eachothers company and we're still in contact today.
See? My incorrect view of all Americans just because I'd met one was righted after meeting another.
Mr Yeager is entitled to his opinions, but it probably would've been more acceptable if he'd worded it differently. I don't know the guy so I'm not going to make the same mistake again of generalising a nation.