I know all that. I read his first book 'tail gunner' when I was nine.
He was remarkable as a bomber pilot and subsequently as a 'pathfinder' in mosquitoes.
The quote you omitted was " These efforts paid off with a posting to succeed Wing Commander Guy Gibson as commander of the legendary 617 Dambusters Squadron in the September of 1943."
Gibson's book is 'enemy coast ahead'.
look at the pikeys who are running this scam hahahahaha
I d15. In the unlikely event of the targeted ticket sales not being reached, the winner will receive a cash prize made up from ticket sales after the charity has received a donation and all marketing costs have been covered.
As most people would be interested in the house, rather than getting a cash prize, I recommend contacting the OP to enquire about ticket sales. When I spoke to her by telephone, she would not tell me how many tickets had been sold, but said that she thought they were on target to sell all tickets by next January - which I took to mean that she had hardly sold any and probably have not covered their 'marketing costs' yet.
From OP:-
For further details please contact me on 01625 441742
Email: snipped-for-privacy@winahouse.info
Best regards, Gabriela van Houten-Smith
Yes thats what I saw. If you look they are also regarding it as a business venture as they are offering other people the opportunity to sell their houses this way.
So a business where the customers carry all the risk - marketing costs, donations etc.
If the numbers are not reached the customers should get their money back. If the numbers are not enough to cover the marketing costs and the donation then the customers get nothing- no cash prize, no house, no 25. Hardly fair is it?
Expecting the customers to pay for their house and then some, as well as carry all the risk of starting a new business and meeting all their costs is ludicrous.
Anybody buying one of these tickets needs their head looked.
Neb
All true, but his main claim to "fame" was this :-
"On his 103rd mission, he was official British observer of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, flying in the support B-29 The Great Artiste, an event which profoundly changed him."
and which led him into setting up his foundation for the care of the disabled.
Comfortably Numb wrote
Have you ever tried calling or txting one of those competitions, (including Millionaire)?
With Millionaire they either say that you missed the time slot, or say that you won. Then they txt or call you 4 days later and ask you a real stinker of a question; "How many members are there in the Outer Mongolian parliament"?
The CH5 quiz and Quizcall ones are worse! I tried it a couple of times because my g/f thought there was a chance of winning, and if you are lucky you get through, but most likely your call is "not selected on this occasion".
But I'm teaching my grandma to suck eggs, aren't I?
Skill my arse, it's a lottery and it could be weighted for certain area codes, if they wished...
dood wrote
ROTFL! A young Richard Branson with his mum!
I know all that as well, and I read them when I was 19yrs. Also the WW1 stuff, Ball and Richtoven and the best of all - C Lewis? - I can't seem to Google him, but what hi-octane stories.
And there is a new one:
"Under The Wire" William Ash
1) At 19 or 20 he *knew* he would be killed. But he didn't care because at that age he had already achieved his lifetime ambition (as an American who travelled to Canada to join the RAF) - to pilot a Spitfire.2) Stationed in Essex, the young pilots took the Underground into London for nights out. Walking along platform in their uniforms, alongside Londoners already bedding down for the night, the Londoners would stand up as they passed, as a mark of respect.
At the Brooklands museum you can walk through a Wellington and it isn't nice.
Oh? In what way not nice?
Not sure what aspect Troy was referring to, but an old timer at the local amateur radio club said in 1962 of stumbling back along the fuselage of a Wellington and falling against the side which just yielded against his weight. He opened the left hand half of his sports jacket, pushed at it with his right hand, and said it "was just like pushing against that".
He also said that against a headwind they made very slow progress over the ground, and related an experience firing the beam mounted machine guns in a low level attack against a target defended by machine gun nests mounted on towers. He was firing his beam mounted machine gun at the towers which were at the same height as the aircraft and they were returning fire (at him) only they were in an armoured machine gun "nest" and he was in a very slow cloth covered aeroplane. 8-((
Guess that qualifies for "Not nice".
DG
I'm not saying that there's any skill involved, just that the OP isn't breaking any laws regarding lotteries because he's included a multiple choice question on the site that you have to answer before entering. If you don't like what he's doing then don't enter. I'm sure there are some people who will, just like there a some people who send all their bank account details to someone in Jamaica to claim a prize in a lottery they never entered.
Yeh, and my money still hasnt arrived.
Indeed. What I meant was "suffocatingly chlostrophobic". The last place on earth you would want to spend your last hours as a young man who would - in better times - have had your life ahead of you.
You forgot to pay the duty and embargo fee!
No I did that, but then they asked for the Transit Waiver Authority Tax, which I couldnt pay as for some reason there is no money left in my bank account. WIll have to look into that....
...on a different subject, but related to this thread, AFAICS Bulgaria actually has a *significantly colder* winter than England, certainly than Southern England, so the motives of people who say they are going there 'for a warmer climate' seems somewhat suspect. They might as well move to Cornwall! And at the moment, LOL, its 2 deg warmer in Manchester than Sofia. Why dont they just say they want to go where houses are cheap and they can make a bigger profit? Or might that make for less of a good sob story? Greece, Turkey, Southern Italy, amongst many, would all be warmer. But more expensive.
Tumbleweed wrote
I could lend you some of the money I got from Nigeria.
Indeed! These seem terribly slow and cumbersome by today's standards, and possibly even by the standards of the time.
Top speed shows up as 255 mph, so even into a headwind they could still have been doing *well* over 100 mph over the ground. I guess that explains how your acquaintance lived to tell the tale, but must have been a frightening episode.
In message , GB writes
IF they were flying at top speed, which is unlikely as top speed couldnt be maintained for long and also Top Speed takes no account of load.
In message , Tumbleweed wrote
I'm still awaiting my money from the Euromillons (not a spelling mistake) lottery - I even paid 10 percent of the winning amount to the Spanish agent :)
It seems the purpose of 'van Houten-Smith Bulgaria Ltd'
As for your lottery win, I hope it comes through my good friend, just fill in the airway bill in triplicate and include the requisite fee. Don't forget to send a photocopy of your password, in fact, just send your passport! ;)
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