Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life Volume 37
Discussion
pequod said:
Bobberoo said:
Graff?!?!?
Kovid graffs, Bobbers!Apper hently we are now entering a new episode of the CovPox era of limited travel Columbine'd (
) with summit called high solation or sumsuch and a CovPox swap to offset our Cov footprint...I dunno, the wurlds gone mad!
For some bizarre reason when I read your "graff" quote I immediately thought of the Graf Spey!!!
Magooagain said:
Bomma R1 said:
It's just passing above Matt Hancocks house Bomma! Go get it Bom!
Bobberoo said:
pequod said:
Bobberoo said:
Graff?!?!?
Kovid graffs, Bobbers!Apper hently we are now entering a new episode of the CovPox era of limited travel Columbine'd (
) with summit called high solation or sumsuch and a CovPox swap to offset our Cov footprint...I dunno, the wurlds gone mad!
For some bizarre reason when I read your "graff" quote I immediately thought of the Graf Spey!!!
We forget, of course, that the pioneers of aviation tried many and all methods to get a man into the air and the Graf Zep was a 'wonder' of its time, flying over 1 million miles before it was scrapped.
Derigibles may have a future yet, as they are the easiest way to suspend heavy weights and propel the 'ship' with eclectic/erroretic/electric motors?
Apper hently!
Wemakeplanebits.com have been experimenting with electric propulsion for a number of years now, highly unlikely to replace conventional jet engines, however some of their ideas are now in use on certain airframes which has led to better fuel efficiency and further air travel without refuelling.
glenrobbo said:
From my Great Grandfather's Journal from the First War:we was on the move again Nov 13th we left Coixyde [Koksijde] At 11 to Adinkirke where we went by train to Calais / the train caught fire on the way which gave the Zeps The Chance of finding where we was going / they drop bombs on the station and Kills 44 Troops and our train Was hit just before we started by air Craft
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Jesse Bullock was called up during WWI to serve in the Labour Companies. He died in 1919 from exposure to poison gas during the war. Several times in his journal he has a medical and is pronounced fit. His wife, my Great Grandma Bullock, widowed with three children, went out cleaning and cleaned house for the rest of her life. During the Second War her house was destroyed by a V1 flying bomb. Weapons of Mass Destruction? The should have talked to my great gran.
Bobberoo said:
Jesus Dicky, thanks for sharing that, i have bookmarked it to read more thoroughly later. Did you sit and type all of that out???
Yes, I transcribed it. BIt of a job. He wasn't an educated man, he wrote in pencil, often in difficult circumstances, he couldn't spell, had a novel approach to capital letters, he was rather deaf and in a foreign country. Several people have made better suggestions for my attempts at his attempts at place names. I've been meaning to copy it to the local museum where he lived and his regiment and then give the original to the Imperial War Museum. There isn't much on record about either the Labour Companies or by the lads who were gassed.
That's me. Talk tomorrow.
Since we're on war stories - I have a 2x Great G.father who served in the Brit Navy in the Crimean war. He then emigrated this way & was one of the crew who built NZ's first light house ( Pencarrow Head).
The brother of a g.father , having travelled 12000 miles for the privilege, was mustard gassed in WW1. Am guessing it was a relatively mild dose. It was many years later that he died of the complications arising.
The brother of a g.father , having travelled 12000 miles for the privilege, was mustard gassed in WW1. Am guessing it was a relatively mild dose. It was many years later that he died of the complications arising.
Bomma R1 said:
glenrobbo said:
I'll flatten that bloody thing if it comes anywhere near the airfield...
Where was it when you spotted it?
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