Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Marina, ...or he is preparing a counter offensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Could we be about to see a mass charge of the bicycles? Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 The German cycling team in better days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Marina, I think a mass charge will be difficult, most of the German team are in Denmark, Egbert turned the French team into sheep, what a mess! Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Luckily we still have the excellent Belgian team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 ...and the British cycling team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 The British even have a female cycling team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Oh, have mercy! You'e making me giggle too much! Marina Does that British cyclist look lost to you? Is he asking directions or is he looking for Heinrich's baby? Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Marina, He is lost and asking the road to the Alpes. I think Egbert knows more about the baby, but he doesn't want to tell it. Cnock German reporter at the Tour de France WWI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Another view of the belgian cycling team in the Tour de France WWI, they were called the 'Black Devils' ( has nothing to do with the Tour, they helped defeating the German cavalry at Halen ) Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 23 July , 2007 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Luckily we still have the excellent Belgian team Luckily we still have had the excellent Belgian team. As you know the disoriented Belgium team Black Devils stopped on the Aisne bridge asking the German tour official, guarding the bridge how to return to Belgium. As there was no Belgium anymore, the guard answered "soon you will meet the black devil itself" and blew the bridge to hell. Since then the Black Devil team officially withdrew from the race.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 And this happened with STROPP's airfield, while he was at the Tour de France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 At present, poor STROPPY has no landing place left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 23 July , 2007 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Nice deception #137: the accidential blow up of the Houthoulst ammo depot. Some of your chaps wanted to boil coffee water with a 28cm.... Meanwhile Stropp has received his green coloured drug and saw the Black Devils cyclists passing him with high speed in 12000ft altitude... and has landed safely on his home airfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 ...accidental blow up of the Houhulst ammo depot? as far as I know the Houthulst Forrest was occupied during 4 years by the german army Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 STROPPY indeed landed safely, and not vertically this time, but on the wrong airfield.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 No wonder the baby has been mislaid if they can't even find the landing field! marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 23 July , 2007 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Sorry the Houthoulst forest was not an ammo dump then but only a nice garage feature for aerial balloons. It meant to be the Brit "Grosses Lager" near Albert The Houthoulst Forest was not occupied but given for free as a recreation camp for off duty aviators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 23 July , 2007 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2007 STROPPY indeed landed safely, and not vertically this time, but on the wrong airfield.... Cnock when do you stop fooling around the serious readers here? As we all know Stropps machine was specially painted! Your German a/c parked on a Brit aerodrome was one of the regular ongoing squadron exchange programs between the RAF and the Imperial Air Force during the war. It was quite common to visit each other and "show and tell" the boy's toys, as seen here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 Egbert, The Houthulst Forest was not an recreation camp for off duty aviators, but packed with heavy artillery. Aerial balloons were not in the wood. 'show and tell' : I see no British aviators on the pics, and don't tell that they are in the bar. Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 July , 2007 Share Posted 23 July , 2007 On British airfields we ' show' other things, look at right of pic. Even STROPPY was impressed and wanted to stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 24 July , 2007 Share Posted 24 July , 2007 Egbert, Your post nr.144 : ' Stropps machien specially painted' the Ersatz paint was washed away by the rain. Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btt. Deutschland Posted 1 August , 2007 Share Posted 1 August , 2007 I think a word of gratitude should be said for the people organising the tour de france; It wasn't all about doping, french sheep or lost german equipes, it was hard work too! Here we see the car of the technical staff; followed by the man hanging up the signs for the germans, as they ride off to denmark... Regards, Wouter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 1 August , 2007 Share Posted 1 August , 2007 Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 1 August , 2007 Share Posted 1 August , 2007 Egbert, please note that the English flyer, whose plane appears in post 144, was one Major Vickers, who wished it to be known that his name was spelt with a "c" and that he flew a "machine". He would be awfully grateful if the caption could be amended accordingly and, by the way, would the riff-raff please stop leaning on the wing of said "machine" as this can interfere with aerodynamic performance and prevent vertical landings. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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