Victoria Station unexploded bomb

[Cotty]

Victoria Station was evacuated after an unexploded Second World War bomb was discovered during building works.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-ra...

Cool kit

[wolves_wanderer]

German bomb with the EU referendum looming. Are there any lengths that they won't go to to keep the rotten EU together!!!!1111!

[Hooli]

Bloody Jerries.

[Mr_B]

Didn't a German bomber crash into the station during the Battle of Britain ? Wasn't it a famous incident in which a Hurricane pilot deliberately rammed the bomber and chopped its tail clean off after he said it was heading for Buckingham Palace ? Was wondering if it could be from that crash.

[Digga]

Just watch this turn into an anti-Muslim thread.

[Cotty]

Mr_B said:

Didn't a German bomber crash into the station during the Battle of Britain ? Wasn't it a famous incident in which a Hurricane pilot deliberately rammed the bomber and chopped its tail clean off after he said it was heading for Buckingham Palace ? Was wondering if it could be from that crash.

You mean this
http://www.bbm.org.uk/as-holmes.htm

[Mr_B]

Digga said:

Just watch this turn into an anti-Muslim thread.

How ?

[s1962a]

Digga said:

Just watch this turn into an anti-Muslim thread.

How many migrants pass through busy stations like Victoria?

[Mr_B]

Cotty said:

Mr_B said:

Didn't a German bomber crash into the station during the Battle of Britain ? Wasn't it a famous incident in which a Hurricane pilot deliberately rammed the bomber and chopped its tail clean off after he said it was heading for Buckingham Palace ? Was wondering if it could be from that crash.

You mean this
http://www.bbm.org.uk/as-holmes.htm

That's it. I'm wondering if it had already dropped its bomb load or if they went down with the aircraft. Slim chance, as I'm sure they would have searched for this. Interesting though.

Edited by Mr_B on Friday 5th February 13:12

[Digga]

Mr_B said:

Cotty said:

Mr_B said:

Didn't a German bomber crash into the station during the Battle of Britain ? Wasn't it a famous incident in which a Hurricane pilot deliberately rammed the bomber and chopped its tail clean off after he said it was heading for Buckingham Palace ? Was wondering if it could be from that crash.

You mean this
http://www.bbm.org.uk/as-holmes.htm

That's it. I'm wonder if it had already dropped its bomb load or if they went down with the aircraft. Slim chance, as I'm sure they would have searched for this. Interesting though.

IIRC, we can at least derail this into an anti-immigrant thread because I think that pilot was Polish.

(Joking aside, a very, very brave guy.)

[andymadmak]

s1962a said:

Digga said:

Just watch this turn into an anti-Muslim thread.

How many migrants pass through busy stations like Victoria?

Exactly! And you cannot tell me that on their journey up through Germany many of these people would not have had the opportunity to acquire some old WW2 ordnance along the way? Eh? eh?

[Morningside]

[Mr_B]

Digga said:

Mr_B said:

Cotty said:

Mr_B said:

Didn't a German bomber crash into the station during the Battle of Britain ? Wasn't it a famous incident in which a Hurricane pilot deliberately rammed the bomber and chopped its tail clean off after he said it was heading for Buckingham Palace ? Was wondering if it could be from that crash.

You mean this
http://www.bbm.org.uk/as-holmes.htm

That's it. I'm wondering if it had already dropped its bomb load or if they went down with the aircraft. Slim chance, as I'm sure they would have searched for this. Interesting though.

IIRC, we can at least derail this into an anti-immigrant thread because I think that pilot was Polish.

(Joking aside, a very, very brave guy.)

Wiki says born in Liverpool.

[Mandalore]

Digga said:

Just watch this turn into an anti-Muslim thread.

Chip/shoulder/soapbox.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mr_B said:

That's it. I'm wondering if it had already dropped its bomb load or if they went down with the aircraft. Slim chance, as I'm sure they would have searched for this. Interesting though.

A heavy bomb could I suppose have gone deeper into the ground undetected at the time than a light metal airframe.

[MartG]

Morningside said:

Hahaha - send for Prof Quatermass !

[Mr_B]

I think it was C5 who filmed the recovery of Ray's Hurricane for a documentary. A few seconds in from the start has film of the Dornier falling out of the sky and into Victoria station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lACDhxSLbYQ

[Willy Nilly]

Cotty said:

Cool kit

Where can you buy one of those from?

[andymadmak]

Willy Nilly said:

Cotty said:

Cool kit

Where can you buy one of those from?

Mercedes Benz commercial?

[s1962a]

andymadmak said:

Willy Nilly said:

Cotty said:

Cool kit

Where can you buy one of those from?

Mercedes Benz commercial?

I was looking for a kit robot to learn how to code with the raspberry pi (its the in thing apparently). Do these come in meccanno kit form?