One for the Air Buffs

[mickthemaverick]

Indeed a decent guess, but wrong!!

Battle of Britain Bunker Uxbridge

Neil

That's the one, I'll put up some more pics as I get them transferred from the phone!!

[mickthemaverick]

Some more exhibits:

Navigation table

The chart table markers

German plane guide

British plane guide

[mickthemaverick]

Some pics of the main plotting table:

The plot

The plot again

The plot yet again

The plot thickens!!

[mickthemaverick]

And finally the desk where the controller sat and made all the decisions:

The controllers desk.

[myglaren]

[myglaren]

[myglaren]

Parked in the market place in Durham.

[mickthemaverick]

I had one of them, only mine wasn't a 109:

Spoiler: show

MTMO

[LedZep]

Have a good month.A French and an English.What can go wrong..

[Stickyfinger]

I had one of them, only mine wasn't a 109:

Spoiler: show

No you did not....it was not a Messerschmitt unlike your shoe ... it was a Bf109.......... Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW)

[mickthemaverick]

I beg to differ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109

Quote "The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a monoplane fighter aircraft that was designed and initially produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW)."

[Stickyfinger]

wikipedia,,,,,,,

[mickthemaverick]

If you don't believe in Wikipedia, and who could blame you, how about the story from the horse's mouth?

"The Messerschmitt Bf 109—often informally referred to as the Me 109—was a German single-seat fighter aircraft that served as the backbone of the Luftwaffe’s Jagdwaffe (fighter force) throughout the Second World War. Designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW), the aircraft was developed in response to a 1933 specification issued by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) for a modern monoplane fighter to replace the obsolete Arado Ar 64 and Heinkel He 51 biplanes then in service. Messerschmitt aimed to produce the lightest possible airframe built around the most powerful inline engine available, resulting in a compact and streamlined all-metal low-wing monoplane with retractable undercarriage, automatic leading-edge slats, and a fully enclosed cockpit—radical features for a frontline fighter at the time."

Sourced from https://battleofbritain1940.com/german- ... tt-bf-109/

[Gibbo2286]

"Bayerische " as in Bayerische Motoren Werke ? BMW.

[Paul-R]

Bayerische just means Bavarian so possibly but maybe not.

Linguistically, it's just an adjective. For instance British Steel had nothing to do with British Leyland despite sharing a word.