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Re: Well done Channel 5.....

Posted by Paul McMillan on Wed Oct 30, 2002 03:51:38 AM

In reply top Well done Channel 5..... posted by Tony on Tue Oct 29, 2002 06:21:07 PM

I agree.. I was a bit aprehensive when I found Channel 5 were going to do a programme on the Dambusters. I thought it would be all the juicy bits but no detail. How wrong I was, it was put together by people who had an interesting story to tell and wanted it told accuratly.. Even the most non technical people could understand how Barnes Wallis worked through the problems one by one to get Upkeep to work..

They even did not shy away from describing what Guy Gibson was really like (i.e difficult, unapproachable etc), but without denegrating his memory.

Best bit, was when the engineer said about the wooden slaves around the Upkeep Mine, being the cause of the problems and removing them being the answer 'first time ever as an engineer that I had a problem that solved itself'

If you ever get the chance to see this on History Channel, Discovery or whatever. See it...

Paul

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