Fattyowls Posted 19 September , 2014 Share Posted 19 September , 2014 JP; what a guy. Thank you. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 20 September , 2014 Share Posted 20 September , 2014 The pilot of the first recorded live animal cargo flight by aeroplane. Who is this? JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 21 September , 2014 Share Posted 21 September , 2014 The pilot of the first recorded live animal cargo flight by aeroplane. Who is this? JP Royal Flying Corps. MP. Inventor/designer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 21 September , 2014 Share Posted 21 September , 2014 Royal Flying Corps. MP. Inventor/designer. Is it Sir Archibald James? Never known it so quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 21 September , 2014 Share Posted 21 September , 2014 Shh! Don't wake them up. My shamefully neglected chappie is a literary cove - famous for translating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 21 September , 2014 Share Posted 21 September , 2014 Is it Sir Archibald James? Never known it so quiet. Not him, no. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 21 September , 2014 Share Posted 21 September , 2014 Shh! Don't wake them up. My shamefully neglected chappie is a literary cove - famous for translating. I think it's Charles Scott Moncrieff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 21 September , 2014 Share Posted 21 September , 2014 I think it's Charles Scott Moncrieff You've been dunking those madeleines again, haven't you? Well done. You have ythunken well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 22 September , 2014 Share Posted 22 September , 2014 Not him, no. JP OK. How about Oliver Simmonds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 22 September , 2014 Share Posted 22 September , 2014 OK. How about Oliver Simmonds? No, not Oliver Edwin Simmonds. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 24 September , 2014 Share Posted 24 September , 2014 The pilot of the first recorded live animal cargo flight by aeroplane. Who is this? JP A Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate is another of his firsts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 24 September , 2014 Share Posted 24 September , 2014 A Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate is another of his firsts. Ah! It's John Moore-Brabazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 24 September , 2014 Share Posted 24 September , 2014 It is - John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, MC, GBE, PC. Conservative MP for Chatham then Wallasey. Minister of Transport and Minister of Aircraft Production (WW2). He served on the Western Front in the Great War and played a key role in the development of aerial photography and reconnaissance. He invented/designed the first purpose-built aerial camera in 1915. In 1909, as a joke, he took 'Icarus II' up in his 'plane to show that pigs could fly. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 24 September , 2014 Share Posted 24 September , 2014 An easy WAIWA. Who is Spears describing here: "A curious, very tall man, who boasted that he was the ugliest man in the British army. I had no difficulty in believing that. In fact, a letter was once delivered to him in London, 'To the ugliest man in the British army.' It came straight to him." ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 24 September , 2014 Share Posted 24 September , 2014 An easy WAIWA. Who is Spears describing here: "A curious, very tall man, who boasted that he was the ugliest man in the British army. I had no difficulty in believing that. In fact, a letter was once delivered to him in London, 'To the ugliest man in the British army.' It came straight to him." ? ? ? Sir Henry Wilson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 24 September , 2014 Share Posted 24 September , 2014 Sir Henry Wilson. Yes indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 September , 2014 Share Posted 26 September , 2014 What soldier and politician of the Great War used this phrase: "The movement...has therefore passed into what is called in the United States innocuous desuetude." ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 26 September , 2014 Share Posted 26 September , 2014 Winston Churchill khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 September , 2014 Share Posted 26 September , 2014 Winston Churchill khaki After such a speedy and accurate response, perhaps a more felicitous phrase would be 'a penumbra of desuetude.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 1 October , 2014 Share Posted 1 October , 2014 From 'And There Was a Great Calm': Calm fell. From Heaven distilled a clemency; There was peace on earth, and silence in the sky; Some could, some could not, shake off misery: The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?' Thomas Hardy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 1 October , 2014 Share Posted 1 October , 2014 Can't resist a question put that way, although I'm not a Thomas Hardy fan myself. I offer these two gentlemen for consideration. I would expect them to have been chalk and cheese in civvy street but one employed the other in wartime. Who are they and what links them? Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 2 October , 2014 Share Posted 2 October , 2014 Is this to do with dazzle camouflage? P.S - do you have any word on David? I hope all is as it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 2 October , 2014 Share Posted 2 October , 2014 Uncle; you are on the right track with my two painters. I've been missing the Wit? statistician too; I hope all is well. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 2 October , 2014 Share Posted 2 October , 2014 Uncle; you are on the right track with my two painters. I've been missing the Wit? statistician too; I hope all is well. Pete. Right then I'm going to say Norman Wilkinson and John Graham Kerr. NF is also unusually quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 2 October , 2014 Share Posted 2 October , 2014 Wrong side of the channel, landward rather than seaward, one had belonged to a movement ending in 'ist', the other didn't hence the chalk and cheese comment. I have to admit that I haven't looked in on the thread as often as I would like as I've been writing some stuff up, but as you say it is quiet. NF, JP, David and Mr B have joined the longer term absentees like Mick and Lord Drill. Was it something we said? Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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