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Old 05-02-12, 06:02 PM   #1
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Default Bomber Boys - BBC1 tonight

Having watched Ewan and his brother on the Spitfire one, I'm looking forward to watching this tonight its about the Lancaster bomber and its crews

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01byv2g
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Old 05-02-12, 06:08 PM   #2
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I remember seeing a Lancaster once at an Airshow years ago. What a phenomenal sound it made.

Brave boys/men that took to the air in them. Looking forward to this, make a change from all the tripe that's been on lately.
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Fabulous! 4 Merlin engines all at once, great noise
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Old 05-02-12, 06:39 PM   #4
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Cheers, I'll have to tape that - I get to crawl over that Lanc most years, its awesome
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Its something us old boys do, along with using slide rules, gallons, acres, yards and listening to the wireless
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It's on sky+
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Barb is watching the skating, and recording Hawaii 5-0 followed by some other thing.

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Yeah im looking forward to this too, spitefire one was great.
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