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I had a truffle through the pages of War In The AIr. This caught my attention in parts 1-10, p. 185. I have recognised Alcock & Browns Vimy since childhood but this is the first time I have seen people alongside it. Now, I have grown up with the idea that an Irish bog is a particularly bad place to be, I have never been to one, but I imagine something akin to the pleasures available should you ever walk the Pennine Way but here it doesn't look too squelchy.
Has anyone here visited the spot? I'm not decrying anyone's pilotage here, just wondering.
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Is that the sea behind? Maybe a loch (lough)? I had no idea it was that close. I imagined them, cold, short of fuel and exhausted glimpsing something emerald below and going for it. In my mind it was something remote from roads and akin to the Cheviots. A long walk in various directions to find habitation and great dificulty in recovering the machine afterwards.
Lots of local puddles
And the site of a Marconi Radio Station.
I wonder if that's what they were flying towards/homing on?
Or even it was there then
Anyway there was a road/track to the station
kevin
Last edit: 11 Feb 2022 09:21 by netcompsys.
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Presumably it was an Irish peat bog. Not the sort of ankle deep wet bog of English lowlands but firm and 'squidgy with a low water table. In those days, peat was the major domestic fuel. With the Atlantic pioneers delivering their aircraft unexpectedly did the locals use it a kindling?
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