Question of the day

[spkennyuk]

Wee clue, the mission was carried out by three Lancaster bombers.

Practice runs for the dambusters ?

 

[Wanderer]

Practice runs for the dambusters ?

Getting closer......

 

[Navcorr]

Is the number of aircraft important? Can't think 3 would be particularly effective for a raid.

 

[Wanderer]

Is the number of aircraft important? Can't think 3 would be particularly effective for a raid.

Think aftermath, Operation Guzzle wasn’t a raid, more of a tidy up after a big raid...

 

[MarkMas]

Oh no! Let's hope that *someone* knows the answer in 23 minutes and 59 seconds C

Do you mean 23 hours and 59 minutes?

 

[CatmanV2]

Do you mean 23 hours and 59 minutes?

I'm in a hurry!

C

 

[midlifecrisis]

An old Vulcan pilot told me this back in the early 90's, he used to fly with Wartime Lanc pilots in his yoof. Op Guzzle was the dumping of stores at sea after the war. Mainly bombs such as grand slams, dam mines etc too hazardous to dismantle by humans. So they loaded them up on bombers and bombed the fish in the atlantic. Neptune was most annoyed...

 

[Wanderer]

An old Vulcan pilot told me this back in the early 90's, he used to fly with Wartime Lanc pilots in his yoof. Op Guzzle was the dumping of stores at sea after the war. Mainly bombs such as grand slams, dam mines etc too hazardous to dismantle by humans. So they loaded them up on bombers and bombed the fish in the atlantic. Neptune was most annoyed...

Correctamundo! Over to you MLC!

 

[Wanderer]

The three Lancs were type 464 Provisioning Lancs, ie ex Dam Buster ones, so I’d assumed they’d be Upkeeps but apparently there were 73 items dropped in the sea, and there couldn’t have been all Upkeeps, so must have been general bombs lying around Scampton!

 

[midlifecrisis]

OK here's one I've just read in a US motoring mag, what connects Vaughtons the jeweller to the car industry?

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[spkennyuk]

Do they make the spirit of ecstacy for Rolls Royce ?

 

[midlifecrisis]

Not the Spirit of Ecstasy for RR, but good idea...

 

[Wanderer]

Jewels for clock motions in flash Yank tanks?

 

[allandwf]

They made Olympic medals is about all I know. No idea what the American car connection is though.

 

[spkennyuk]

Not the Spirit of Ecstasy for RR, but good idea...

Bentley badges or Cadillac. Possibly the crystals set in the roof of the Bentley Celestial i think its called.

 

[midlifecrisis]

I'll give you badges, they make tge Aston Martin badges , I may have mislead you with the American magazine reference. Stu, your go.

 

[spkennyuk]

Can someone set the next question for me please.

 

[MarkMas]

OK.
Name a British MP who can speak Japanese fairly well.

 

[CatmanV2]

OK.
Name a British MP who can speak Japanese fairly well.

Is his Japanese better than his Chinese?

C

 

[MarkMas]

Is his Japanese better than his Chinese? C

Yes indeed! Rather surprisingly. (The one I am thinking of.)