Certainly not Jerome ;)

Well spotted ;)

@@couchmagpie I'm here for the American AOR things in life, not the Essex synth nonsense. I expect some Air Supply content next time.

Thanks for watching!

I think the ironically titled Exciter album fell flat for a lot of fans (me included) but their canon of work overall, up to and including Memento Mori, has more highs than lows imo.

Totally agree with you. I was a fan from the first time I saw them on TOTP's doing New life in June 81. With each progressive album they got better and better. Last album I bought was Violator in 1990 but I do like SOFAD just never bought it.

Violator / SOFAD is a good place to stop, if you were going to stop, although Ultra still surprises me when I listen to it all the way through. I get the sentiment about Alan Wilder - seems like the choice of producer on each album is also very important.

@@couchmagpie Yes it is true, Alan Wilder was a genius at production along with Daniel Miller and people like Gareth Jones ( Metamatic, John Foxx) etc. He was the one that spent 12 hours a day crafting the songs into beautiful sonic soundscapes. Whilst Dave, Martin and Fletch left after a few hours because they got bored and it really shows in the production after he left. I also got bored with Martins dreary lyrics about Sex and Religion starting with Some great reward. Which were great to begin with.

+@brycenew Three projects are working on Sabres, rare as they are. But it will probably be a while before work begins on the engines.

The raf pillock crashed the 109!

RAF soon adopted the 20mm cannon. By 1941 all fighters were equiped to some extent. The 'universal' wing on the later Spitfires could carry any conbination of .303 .50 or 20mm cannon. Some Lancasters toward the end of the War had twin .50 in the rear turret. Its OK to critisize pre War thinking in hindsight, but know one could have forseen what was to develop. Don't forget No 19 Squadron had Cannon fitted Spitfires during the Battle of Britain but were very unreliable due to the Spitfires thin wing. I think some in the Air Ministry championed the cannon, but until made reliable, stuck with the .303s. There was also a Battle of Britain Hurricane of 151 Squadron with an experinental twin 20 mm set up, but again suffered stoppages.

*Typhoon 👍

+ @lardyify There are several Typhoon/Tempest projects but nothing that is close to finished and none of them have started rebuilding Sabre engines until the airframes are farther along. A flyable Sabre will be a challenge and there are not many of them around.

Yes, yes yes!

+ @guaporeturns9472 It does not, and this is the only intact survivor. There are several (three I think) Tempest/Typhoon projects that are planning to fly, but they are many years from complete.

@@FiveCentsPlease Love the Tempest and Typhoon , Hopefully we’ll see more eventually. Thanks

There are no complete whirlwinds, but there is a group who are working to build one using the ID of one that was crashed and recovered.

Especially if flown by a raf pilloct

There are 3 flying Lancs at the moment and I think one or two more in the pipeline.

@@owen368 I didn't know the one in Lincolnshire had received its airworthiness ticket, thought it was only cleared for taxiing

It's the only existing complete Typhoon in the world. Normally resides at the RAF museum, Hendon, North London as a static display. It was at the BBMF after being returned from Canada en route back to Hendon. Happy now, mister armchair critic ?

@@georgeredlewgit6891 Hello .George I well remember these aircraft from the ww2 as I was a kid then & my dads brother was a RAF radar mech,. Loved the Typhoon & I have large picture of one on the landing so I can see it every night when I go to bed.I have also been to Hendon museum to see the Tempest they have there-- I even touched the it & got told off for it thats why I thought it to be a cardboard cut out replica--YOU just cannot trust anybugger these days.John

Nova Scotia!

+ Chris Davis They were given access to this example to make some 3D scans, which allowed them to fill in missing data for building new wings and some fuselage.

@@FiveCentsPlease I see! Rgr that.. Being an absolute must!!

The Typhoon was faster than a FW190 in level flight and was used on the south coast of the UK to catch FW190 and other Intruders, as you said in dived like a train. It was armed initially with 12 x .303 which quickly changed to 4 x 20mm auto cannons. It had an armoured cockpit. Due to exhaust gases entering the cockpit pilots wore their face masks at all times and where on oxygen from the moment the engine started. Read a book written by a pilot who flew through D day to entry into Germany. It was a beast 4 x 20 mm cannons and 8 x 60 lbs Rockets ( the equivalent of a cruiser broadside ), lots of pilots and planes losses due to ground attack role. At low level everyone with a gun is firing at you. It was rugged in this role with it’s armoured cockpit. Early fuselage and elevator flutter problems where fixed as was the mighty Sabre engine problems, initial sleeve valve problems where fixed by using Bristol Aircraft Engines manufacturers technology. Rapid Sleeve valve wear in the battle for France after D Day came from operating from dusty makeshift forward airfields. An air filter assembly was devised but until then they swapped out engines at predetermined hours (There was a war on ). The Sabre was notoriously hard to start when cold, in the book I read the engines where started during the night and run to keep them warm and engines had blankets put over them to retain the heat. Do not let anyone tell you their actual effect on the ground looking at figures was limited, revisionist historians should read the book. A reconnaissance mission carried out by two Typhoons in bad weather found a massive German armoured column just about to smash into weakly held US lines. Typhoons squadrons now alerted on their own, no ground support at all smashed the German column and left it a burning wreck. I believe we a talking about 400 vehicles. Anyone thinking different read the book written by a Pilot who was there. “The Day of the Typhoon, the Typhoon developed into the Tempest an even more potent aircraft. When the FW190 came out nothing could touch it but Typhoon” due to its speed at lower altitudes. MkV Spitfires where easy meat for FW190 with many losses. The Spitfire was rapidly developed with a more Powerful Merlin and eventually supplanted by the Griffin but the Typhoon at lower altitudes was the one to take out the Butcher Bird during that period.

@@anthonywilson4873 I believe Eisenhauer specifically mentioned about the enormous contribution of the Typhoons during D-Day in general and specifically their role in smashing the German advance.

@@arniewilliamson1767 Yes there was a report about the Normandy campaign written by Eisenhower. He specifically mentioned the ground attack Typhoons. Read it many years ago!

Me too. Superb machines.

And me. 😁

@@darrenwalley91 me to..

There is one ready to fly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3KYnoyYo9x4rKc

@@balsumfractus There are 2 ready to fly.