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Broithe
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Nice. I hope that's a practice round.....
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It's here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps?ll=52.768314,-2.032728&spn=0.001358,0.002411&t=h&z=19 .. ..not that it's visible..
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This was it at the time - I believe that it was based on the Messines Ridge.
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I took Great Uncle John's engraved shell case up there, as he didn't have the pleasure of the Western Front. He had rather better weather in the Dardanelles. Even on a model battlefield, we have to have Health and Safety...
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This enormous trench system model is currently being excavated near me. It was built in the First World War as a training aid. The idea is the scan it when is all been uncovered and then cover it up again, as it's quite fragile. They will then construct a virtual model and eventually, maybe, a physical replica elsewhere.
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Here we are. They managed to outline the boundaries of the newly-built RAF maintenance depot very accurately. My house is just above the 'T' in Teil VI, but they don't seem to be targeting me.. The tank factory is where the tight bend in the railway is, right at the bottom of the picture.
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There used to be a video on YouTube of two lads doing the Crimebusters thing, verbatim, as part of a school performance - but I can't find it now..
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Sometimes, Gardaí will request that you stop filming them..
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I'll try to sort the picture out in the next few days. In the late 80s, we were digging a new test-pit and came across a cylindrical item that wasn't on the plans. The factory's been there since 1917 and so the plans are a bit iffy, but, nobody ever met the Germans that dropped the bombs to ask them how many there really was. Four went off, but that didn't meant there weren't five - or six. We were close to getting the bomb squad in when we discovered that it was an unknown sewer pipe. Lucky we didn't get it blown up....
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No - I genuinely doubt anybody even saw it - he probably came from Holland and the radar coverage was iffy on that side. There was bugger all here to shoot at it with anyway. The picture turned up after the war. The detail and info on it is remarkable. The only 'error' is the site numbers of the RAF base, and I doubt it was of any importance that they used the right number if they tried to bomb it. The town only got four bombs in the end - somebody got jumped on the way to Liverpool one night and dumped them to make a run for it.. By pure fluke, two of the bombs fell on what was then a tank factory..
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Steady, don't you know there's a war on? I'll take a picture of it one day and post it. I often wonder if anybody even saw them. The shadows suggest that it was about nine in the morning.
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Very nice. Is that a Tempest below it?
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Sad news - commiserations from me to all concerned.
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An excellent qualification for posting on here...
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I took a Kavanagh bus into Portlaoise in the late 90s and got roped into handing the parcels out as we went along..
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I picked up one of those, too - I'll have to build a shed to construct it in first.. Always been intrigued by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel since I read his book. Hasegawa used to do a 1/8th scale Fokker triplane!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24231077
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Excellent! Could be starting a trend..
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Lucky she didn't use a line-prop....
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Lovely. I have a reconnaissance photo of my house (+ other things) taken on 3/9/1940 by an 88 A-4. I've never been able to be sure of the actual aircraft involved - one day I might find out - I must get one of these in stock for that day...
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Airfix 617 Sqn Lancaster Dambuster
Broithe replied to Georgeconna's topic in Aviation & Maritime Modelling
I met Mick Martin, who flew AJ-P, about 1970. He didn't retire from the RAF until 1974. -
Are you a Clare man?
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Those paving blocks will be 100 x 200 mm - so the line at Ballybrophy is a tiny bit less than 200mm, but near enough..
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Find a block-paved drive and scale it off this..
