cdr Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 correct ! who's this then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Glen Curtiss? (If it is, I was keeping him for a WIT of my own!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdr Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 nope different continent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 correct ! who's this then ? Grandfather of Eddy Merckx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdr Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 different town of origin like Merckx he had some world records but he was very active in the war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Grandfather of Eddy Merckx! Who cheated by putting a motor on his bike. Shabby. Very shabby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 correct ! who's this then ? Jan Olieslagers? David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdr Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Perfect ! well known motorcycle driver and airplane pioneer (in 1904 he won the motor rally Paris Bordeaux Paris altough he got fined by French police for not having a drivers licence ) At the start of the war he joined the Belgian army with his brothers and brought his own planes (3 Beriot planes), mechanics and equipment. He apparently did not like paperwork and so is only credited with only six confirmed victories (never filled in paperwork if the German came down behind German lines !) not bad for someone who lost his father age 11 and started work cleaning docks in the port of Antwerp Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 My last attempted sub-thread did not prove a crowd pleaser, so how about following Carl's last offering - 'Aces from around the world'. So who's this chap: David PS Just passed 100 pages and 250 posts on WIT 1. The Lord Protector is still justifying his title with 63 posts and 42 solutions. I have also just come across his first "Heh, heh, heh" which was surprisingly late at post 2214. In what quickly became a tradition Siege Gunner snaffled it in short order (Van Heydebreck). I have also recently catalogued Fattyowls greatest triumph to date. Pete's identification of the Japanese representative at the Versailles Peace Conference leading skipman to burst into Japanese and Mr Drill to threaten burning at the stake. More worryingly I have just come across the moment when I declared an apparent obsession with Balkan men with moustaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Is that Trafford Leigh-Mallory? Pete PS. I'm still traumatised by the threat of immolation; I've not been able to barbecue since. PPS. We all need to get out more; and now you have the statistics to prove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 23 July , 2014 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2014 leading skipman to burst into Japanese and Mr Drill to threaten burning at the stake. More worryingly I have just come across the moment when I declared an apparent obsession with Balkan men with moustaches. . . . . and Mr Curragh told us we went off-topic ! Tcha ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 I think I found another good one. At some point, maybe I will actually identify somebody and have a chance to submit my latest meatball to the WITteam! -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 PPS. We all need to get out more; and now you have the statistics to prove it. David PS It isn't Leigh-Mallory PPS I note the Lord Protector is about to be promoted to Major General. Surely that's a demotion for him (and not one of his better decisions in 1655) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 23 July , 2014 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2014 I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Aces from around the world'. So who's this chap: dri 237.jpg David Is it NZ Ace Sir Keith Park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Is it NZ Ace Sir Keith Park? Right country wrong ace UG David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Right country wrong ace UG David Keith Caldwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 This chap had an amazing career. Who is he ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Keith Caldwell Well done UG. Caldwell flew with Mick Mannock of whom he was a great admirer as a pilot. However he took exception to Mannock's practice of strafing aircraft he had shot down in the hope of finishing off the pilots. Mannock's terse response to the criticism was the grim comment "no prisoners for me." I don't think we've had this chap (at least I know we haven't had him in the first 100 pages) which is quite surprising. Who is he? David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Well done UG. Caldwell flew with Mick Mannock of whom he was a great admirer as a pilot. However he took exception to Mannock's practice of strafing aircraft he had shot down in the hope of finishing off the pilots. Mannock's terse response to the criticism was the grim comment "no prisoners for me." I don't think we've had this chap (at least I know we haven't had him in the first 100 pages) which is quite surprising. Who is he? dri 238.jpg David Godwin Brumowski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Godwin Brumowski Daniel He shoots, he scores!! Bring on your latest meatball/Library of Congress star David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Ahem. (rolls up sleeves) Who is this? -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 Ahem. (rolls up sleeves) Who is this? 90125.jpg -Daniel Is this Leahy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 . More worryingly I have just come across the moment when I declared an apparent obsession with Balkan men with moustaches. Although we are a completely non-judgmental society here, I would worry were yo to have an obsession with Balkan men without moustaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 July , 2014 Share Posted 23 July , 2014 This chap had an amazing career. Who is he ? ? ? There are not many who served during the Boxer Rebellion, and WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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