Well my uncle who is a complete football geezer (geezer in the UK definition, not the US definition) who swears after every second sentence 🤭 came to visit my dad and we joined him to visit my great aunt in Lincoln.
We went to this museum, but my family, being my family, aren't your typical US or UK family , when word got out, the whole extended family from Lincoln came to see us 😊
I would love to see the museum and the American Air Museum over there. The man I was named after flew Mustangs out of England in the last months of the War. Those were some brave men and women who flew those aircraft.
@exexec I served under a colonel who flew Spits in the RCAF and went on to command the squadron that taught the Luftwaffe to fly the F86 Sabres. He rarely talked about his distinguished flying career preferring to talk about the boat he planned on buying after his retirement. Funny story I witnessed. At the Colonel's retirement mess dinner (very formal) there was a older lady who flew the Spits as a ferry pilot. She said she had lost a ladies kerchief in one of the airplanes. Previously the Colonel told me about the lucky charm he kept on him whenever he flew. It was a ladies kerchief he had found in one of the airplanes. That night he was able to return the kerchief to its rightful owner. BTW her military career ended after the war but her flying career carried on. She became the chief flying officer of one of the biggest flying schools in Canada.
@hippyjoe1955 Good story. My person who flew Mustangs was killed after the war when his F-86 crashed on takeoff on a ferry flight from the factory. He shot down a German jet in the last week of the war.
@exexec Interesting. The Colonel told me that the F86 was his personal favourite. No torque on take off while the Spit was quite demanding. He said he had no idea how the ladies were able to apply enough rudder to get the thing in the air because it took strong legs on a man to press the rudder bar hard enough. Well that and the very narrow landing gear arrangement made landings and takeoffs a real challenge.
