Originally Posted by
spaceworm
We issue pistols to flyers who make it a habit of flying over the flight line. They are expected to do the honorable thing and dispatch themselves if they cause an accident.
Love it!
To come back to my own BE2 build, I had hoped that Lt Davies was flying a new aircraft when he was killed, but research indicates that he was flying an aircraft, A2738, which had arrived at the squadron in December 1916. In First World War terms it was something of a veteran by the time he was killed in it at the end of April 1917, which means that I am going to have to paint squadron markings on the side of it. In the case of 12 Squadron this consisted of two lines along the full length of the longerons from the engine to the stern-post. Something else which could go wrong!