OT: VE day warplanes

[secret squiddle]

Why are people concerned about planes landing on houses, when flying low? So where do all the high flying planes crash?

**SS**

[Dave]

It would be your device. The main reason would be convenience, if you have a medical incident the medics would have immediate access to the necessary info.

This is blue skies time but presumably the carrier would grant write access

An implant is possibly going a bit far, but it would save a lot of hassle; less invasive to just carry a "device" (watch, card, phone) that can be remotely read at short range

Dave

[Doctor Evil]

A Lancaster with Hurricane and Spitfire on each wing flew directly over my place and shook the place, and they were certainly less than 1000 feet.

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[:::Jerry::::]

grandparents

I think that is true for many, it might not have been directly due to the military but many must have meet people they would not have done without the mass movement of people that took place between 1939 and

194x.

Considering the subject matter, an unfortunate sig...

[:::Jerry::::]

[re ID cards ]

Hmm, anyone thinking of the last episode of Dr Who ?

Click !....

[soup]

secret squiddle popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said

Not my idea just the way some seem to be thinking.

If a'plane is flying low over houses and everything goes pearshaped they (the pilots) have less time to react or to glide anywhere than if they were flying high.

[:::Jerry::::]

going

flying

Do you really think that if there was conceivable risk the pilots would fly that low, after all (even if they don't bail out) there is less time for them to save their own bacon let alone anyone else's !

When an aircraft malfunctions and the pilots manage to land the thing safely rather than crashing people go about calling them Hero's, in reality they were saving themselves just as much an others....

[The Caretaker]

Spot on.

.... or take part, in a meaningful way, in the conflict they wish to promote.

[The Caretaker]

And thank goodness they still can. :)

[soup]

:::Jerry:::: popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said

Yup, flying (at any height) is intrinsically dangerous

Sure Chuck Yeager talks off someone missing a school, the pilot in question hadn't even seen it was a school, he had thought that buildings hurt more when you crash into them than an open field.

[Huge]

Go away, troll.

[Huge]

Then you are a drooling idiot.

Go away and read 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid's Tale and the transcripts of the trials of Derek Bentley and the Birningham Six.

[Huge]

[39 lines snipped]

How?

How?

How?

I'm just going to tattoo this nice number on the inside of your forearm. Where's the downside?

[Huge]

*LAUGH*

My thought exactly!

[Huge]

Oh, the naievety. You will have no access to the data on the card. And certainly none to the national database behind it.

Dave, Governments cannot be trusted. At all. Ever. Their incursions into our private lives should be resisted at all times. The State is a bad servant and a terrible (in the sense of terror) master.

Some more reading for you; Find out what the US Government did to it's citizens of Japanese descent in WW2. They found them through the census data, having promised that it would be confidential.

[Steve Firth]

Yup, I know several Navy pilots, I'm glad that they can still fly historic aircraft.

[Tosspot]

The way I look at it, we'd all be speaking German, we'd have a health service that works, a public transport system the envy of the world, and the finest beer brewed.

Btw, the smiley omitted for sarcastic effect.

[Doctor Evil]

The vast majority Britons who dies for King and country owned not one square inch of land under their feet.

Little was actually invented in WW2. All was there before: radio, radar, TV, jet engine, telephones etc. Many inventions were accelerated through because of the war.

The real "direct" benefit of WW2 to the average person was the development of the small electric motor, mainly the motors used in the Torky electric drill, which was made small for small female hands to use in factories. The small motor technology was transferred to household appliances after WW2.

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[AlanG]

And when you lose it and can't get money from bank, board a plane, get on a train, on a bus, no pension, no medical treatment, barred from shopping malls etc etc. etc.??

What do you do when you become a non person?

[AlanG]

I thought it was hitting the ground not under control that was the dangerous bit,