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The high intensity ultraviolet light’s so bright, I gotta wear shades
Full report here:
K9787 was the very first production Spitfire and first flew on 14/5/38. Later converted to a PR Mk III.
Failed to return from a photo-recce sortie to Cherbourg and Le Havre.
Crew: P/O (44672) Samuel BOWES (pilot) RAF - killed.
Samuel Bowes is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
R.I.P.
Clicking picture opens website where large resolution versions can be seen.
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As an aside, I’d like to point out that we’re probably roughly 3 months out from the end of this 8 year diversion at the current pace, but that it’s likely to accelerate through the end.
For regular posters to the thread, (I was for a brief time in the mid 7000’s, but haven’t been in quite a while), do you think it would be fitting if the first post for 10,000 were reserved for the OP, @fiddlingfrog, if they want it? It would seem a fitting end.
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Indeed it would.
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Forgive me for doing two in a row, but I could not resist this one…
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@gtmac Agreed.
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Thank you, I’m really honored. And I’m really impressed that we’re still playing 8 years after I started this, even if we took an extended break in there.
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I’m a sucker for flange gaskets.
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One of these may come in useful one day soon. (I hope not.)
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