Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Something Nasty in the Attic - WW2 German Incendiary Bombs 2022" video.

  1. Perfect timing ... "What's that ticking noise?"
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  2.  @SportyMabamba  I have a friend in his 90s who served in the Battle Of The Coral Sea.
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  3.  @Zamandu  True. But it's amazing what people will do on a former firing range. I remember one very blatant sign on a range many years ago: "Do Not touch or pick up anything resembling <gave a list of suspicious items, including tin cans> as it may explode and kill you."
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  4.  @jeudieleslavavelasquez8410  Or maybe by the time everyone drank the beer they looked like Hermann?
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  5. Thankfully free-to-air TV is an outdated media format, and soon will go the way of the dodo. The owners will have no-one to blame but themselves - they could've improved the quality of how and what they broadcast years ago, but were too rusted on to the idea of telling us viewers what to watch and when. Well, they can cry into their beers nowadays, and if they have a problem with that then they should hunt down their former program directors and discuss it with them. Good riddance, I say.
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  6. That might be why it was an "off limit" area, LOL!
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  7.  @erikstolzenberger1517  They mainly dump fuel to get below the safe landing weight. Jet fuel (kerosine) isn't anywhere near as flammable as Avgas (petrol). I remember one time on the flight line when we refuelled a 727 and the VTO (Volumetric Top-Off) failed to work (which was typical) and the wing tip vent tank overflowed - jet fuel all over the tarmac. Passengers were loaded onto the plane, and it was allowed to taxi out of the parking bay (this was on the old airport before aerobridges, and wasn't a pushback bay) with just the foam tender from the fire station standing by.
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  8. Probably one of the few episodes of The Waltons I ever saw depicted some British evacuee children in the USA - a plane flew over and the kids automatically got into a ditch by the road, to the shock of Mrs Walton.
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  9. When I was a kid, growing up in a small rural town, there was a guy who had a WW2 grenade in his living room. Somehow it came to the notice of the police, who called in the Army who took it away and detonated it. The Army guys said the guy and his family were lucky to be alive - the only thing stopping this thing from going off was the extremely rusty pin.
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  10. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Island also copped a lot of ordnance as well as England. The whole of the UK did.
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  11. Indeed. Firebombs don't just grow in one's attic or somehow miraculously appear - there's always a human agency involved. :)
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  12. How lucky was that teenage girl?!? If her mother hadn't looked up the markings when she did, or the girl got a bit inventive on how to unscrew the cap ... gives me the shudders just thinking about it.
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  13. I have a friend with a similar story. His father passed away some years ago, and then his mother about a decade later. Sometime not long after the funeral (when the lawyers were sorting out the estate) they discovered that his parents were never married - apparently back in the day his mother already had a family, but one day got up and left to set up house with my friend's father and start a new family.
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  14. Or, "Look mum, no hands!"
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