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nightjar - 21 Jun 2007 08:40 GMT

Time for a bit of British History and shades of the quizzes we used to have.

So, who can give the year in which Britain tested a remote controlled bomber
and its first guided missile anti-tank weapon?

Any answer within the last 50 years will be wrong.

Colin Bignell

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a.spencer3 - 21 Jun 2007 09:23 GMT

> Time for a bit of British History and shades of the quizzes we used to have.
>
> So, who can give the year in which Britain tested a remote controlled bomber
> and its first guided missile anti-tank weapon?
>
> Any answer within the last 50 years will be wrong.

I'm always happy to resuscitate the quizzes - was just awaiting signs of
Brit history returning to the site first! :-))

Surreyman

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Jack Linthicum - 21 Jun 2007 19:59 GMT

On Jun 21, 3:40 am, "nightjar" <nightjar@<insert my surname
here>.uk.com> wrote:

> Time for a bit of British History and shades of the quizzes we used to have.
>
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>
> Colin Bignell

Not a bomber but a target aircraft, probable originator of the term
"drone" from the name of the aircraft, Fairey Queen.

http://www.vectorsite.net/twuav_01.html

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ron grainger - 22 Jun 2007 00:10 GMT

> Time for a bit of British History and shades of the quizzes we used to
> have.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> Colin Bignell

So I will nominate 1956 for the Vickers anti-tank but no idea of remote
controlled bomber (or of how much British History has been swamped by USA
political issues).
Ron

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nightjar - 22 Jun 2007 17:53 GMT

>> Time for a bit of British History and shades of the quizzes we used to
>> have.
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> controlled bomber (or of how much British History has been swamped by USA
> political issues).

I had hoped for a little more interest, but it seems that British History is
dead on this group now. You are the closest, but only because nobody else
has tried. Otherwise, you are quite a long way off.

Would it help if I said 2007 is a round number anniversary and that four
airmen won the Victoria Cross in the same year?

Colin Bignell

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Jack Linthicum - 22 Jun 2007 19:42 GMT

On Jun 22, 12:53 pm, "nightjar" <nightjar@<insert my surname
here>.uk.com> wrote:

> >> Time for a bit of British History and shades of the quizzes we used to
> >> have.
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>
> Colin Bignell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Low

Really a missile and not a bomber

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nightjar - 26 Jun 2007 00:21 GMT

> Time for a bit of British History and shades of the quizzes we used to
> have.
>
> So, who can give the year in which Britain tested a remote controlled
> bomber and its first guided missile anti-tank weapon?

If anyone is interested, the year was 1917, courtesy of the RAF Museum
timeline.

Colin Bignell

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Molesworth - 26 Jun 2007 02:15 GMT

Just across the road, on the common ground behind the Woolwich Military
Academy parade-ground was an anti-aircraft compound. Completely deserted
and all below ground.

Rooms (with roof trapdoors) and concrete trenches went (it seemed to me)
for miles.

As seven-year-olds, we would play there for hours and hours at
'soldiers'!

From the nearby road, you couldn't see anything. It was only obvious
when you were right on top of it.

Molesworth - there's a bit of alt.history.british!

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History Forum / General / British History / June 2007

Name that year