11/11/11

[bristol scout]

Is it a D.F.W. B1?


Dave.

[FOKKERJ]

Originally Posted by bristol scout

Is it a D.F.W. B1?


Dave.

Hello Dave,

This Crash Foto is from the BCFC Nr.504:

Breguet's Crash File Challenge Nr.504

AROTH sucessfully ID'd this Winged Wreck as an Albatros W1.

Cheers, Jay

P.S. What a busy week this has been....
11-9-'09 or 9-11-'09, The 20th Anniversary of "The Fall OF The Berlin Wall', separating Berlin for almost thirty years.
Makes one wonder how this has impacted so many of our Members here.

11:00 A.M., 11-11- 1918, The signing of the Varasilles Treaty and the end of the Great War to End All Wars!
Until we discovered this Forum!

Then I caught a Special on P.B.S. about the BEATLES and their impact on the Youth of the Soviet Union, U.S.S.R., starting around 1964 and the Goverment's attempts at keeping the BEATLES' music out of the hands of their people. A lot of young people demonstated great genius with their many ways around this. They distributed recordings made on discarded X-Rays that they then recorded in booths designed for Soldiers to record a message to send home to Mom. Made electric guitars at home with the pick-ups made from using the recievers from public telephone booths (it is said that thousands of telephone booths were rendered inoperable over night!). They made amplifier speakers from Public Propaganda Speakers! One Deputy Prime Minister said that as a young boy that his first English that he learned was: "Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb accross my head.".... Very interesting, to me.

Cheers, Jay

[FOKKERJ]

On my first Post on the previous page I had forgot to include a minor detail:

Originally Posted by FOKKERJ

HAPPY ARMISTICE DAY,
TO ALL VETERANS
OF ALL WARS.

I hope that it makes better sense now.

[crankcase]

Jay,
Your remind me of a fantasy I once had during the cold war. it was to fly a Dr-I over the Brandenburg gate and down Unter den Linden, do a Immelmann turn over the DDR parliament building (Volkskammer, now removed) and beat it back to the West before the Migs could scramble.

I suppose it was inspired by that (west) German kid who managed to fly a Cessna into the Soviet Union without being challenged. Remember he landed on Red Square?
Talk about red faces in Soviet air defence!
marc

[bristol scout]

Hi Jay,
It was those massive downswept individual exhausts, fuse. mounted radiators and very high inverted 'V' cabane strut that pointed it D.F.W. B1 to me---but I had'nt looked at the 'challenge' nor do I usually to be honest (have done once or twice).

Cheers,
Dave.

[FOKKERJ]

Originally Posted by bristol scout

Hi Jay,
It was those massive downswept individual exhausts, fuse. mounted radiators and very high inverted 'V' cabane strut that pointed it D.F.W. B1 to me---but I had'nt looked at the 'challenge' nor do I usually to be honest (have done once or twice).

Cheers,
Dave.

Hi Dave,

That's OK.

GEEZ! That reminds me, I have another BCFC Thread to start....

Originally Posted by crankcase

Jay,
Your remind me of a fantasy I once had during the cold war. it was to fly a Dr-I over the Brandenburg gate and down Unter den Linden, do a Immelmann turn over the DDR parliament building (Volkskammer, now removed) and beat it back to the West before the Migs could scramble.

I suppose it was inspired by that (west) German kid who managed to fly a Cessna into the Soviet Union without being challenged. Remember he landed on Red Square?
Talk about red faces in Soviet air defence!
marc

Hello Marc,

What a coincidence!
I also remind myself of a fantasy sometimes.

I remember that for several years that I could not pass a bridge without thinking of one day flying my Fokker Dr.I through the large, to not so large opening under the span.

Some bridges begged for it more than others.

HAPPY TRAILS, FOKKERJ

P.S. I wonder if anyone did a Thread on "Where were you the day the WALL came down?"