Re: New Bader Documentary
 

Thank you Franek! That's one hour I won't see again for very little purpose other than confirmation of the rank stupidity of some people. Though there was quite a bit of interesting material in the more direct confrontation between Dilip Sarker and Andy Saunders. Shame about the rest.

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Graham,

Yes, it's unfortunate that there's anomosity between the two gentlemen and I read the lengthy thread on the FlyPast forum but I guess when it comes to business, business is business. That being said, there's something about Dilip that bothers me and I can't seemt to put a finger on it. After looking at Dilip's website, his whole "look at me and my MBE" left me with a feeling of why do you have to brag about it?

Anyhow, I was most impressed with the quality of Andy's article in After The Battle and I look forward to his future works.

Stephen

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[quote=Franek Grabowski]Better have a look at the Fly Past forum!!! ;)[/quoteCan you please give info how to visit this forum.
Thanks
René

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Rene,

A quick search on Google using "FlyPast forum" produced this link:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/

I hope this helps.

Stephen

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The FlyPast Forum seem an angry lot, don't they?

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Hmm, after extracting most relevant info, I would say, all of them are drawing conclusions from unconfirmed evidence. For some reason they reject possibility of a surface crash, not even knowing what actual damage was. For some reason they claim, DB could not left his leg in the cockpit due to strenght of straps attaching it, but forget that in fear people may do various unbelieveable things (I am awared of a case of TS-11 Iskra's stick bent by a pilot trying to recover it from dive) or that DB could have been trapped on the way outside, and subsequently sucked out without the thing. Too much guesswork, too few proofs.
Personally I would side with Bruce and mbv, and you? ;)

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There is nothing wrong in being proud of one's achievements - and the MBE to Dilip is an achievement he can be proud of. Its not that he is posting it on every forum - is he? he had limited it to only his website.

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Yeah, man! I got sidetracked by a political discussion & the pointless, venomous vituperation(sp?) really took me aback---lotta blind ignorance too!

NickM

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Gentlemen,

I fully agree.

Despite asking what I thought to be sensible questions. I was delt with offhand condisending replies or so I thought. Though I could be wrong.
Anyway I have left the thread to those who delight in their own importance .

Alex

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I enjoyed the programme, if only to see the places I'd read about in the original After the Battle article.

Of course you got the usual British TV compilation WW2 gun camera footage and a production team who think "any old plane will do" when it comes to selecting wartime film (or maybe aircraftall look alike to TV people). It was nice to see the Moranes though, even if they were totally irrelevant!