Britain needs bones

As regards the photos, the germans did the same. A few years ago, I was shown photos taken by the Luftwaffe of a place called Rivington Pike. They used it as a landmark to line up on Liverpool.

One of the things that I find curious about that period id that the germans never managed to find the largest air base in Europe during that period. Despite the fact it was situated between Liverpool and Manchester. Places they bombed on a regular basis.

Even more interesting than a cast iron aeroplane was the coal powered jet the germans were designing at the end of the war. Some documentation suggests that it was built, and was in fact the first aircraft to break the sound barrier.

 

I have visions of someone shovelling coal into a gigantic jet engine, and trying to still remain upright as it goes through the sound barrier.

 

http://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/...ippisch-p-13a-mach-2-6-range-fuelled-by-coal/

 

A bit different to what I imagined

 

Agreed....

Bunkum or coal bunkum? or should that be coal bunker?

 

I can remember from childhood in the West Mids, if there was a bad smell in the air it was always "oh that`s the glue factory"

 

That why there were rag and bone men..the tatter with his horse and cart.

But now that strikes another question, you try and get a bone from the butchers or the supermarket and they will tell you they have none because all the bones are collected by the bone man