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Ytterligare en Spitfire i Ängelholm
HD/NST 18 maj 2009

— Engelsmännen gråter när man tar ett flygplan därifrån. Men jag tror de känner sig trygga med att vi har det här i Sverige, säger Bertil Gerhardt.
Enligt honom finns i dag endast 40 Spitfireplan i världen som är flygbara. 28 av dessa återfinns i Europa och de två flygbara som finns i Sverige har sitt hem på Valhall Park.
— Annars finns en Spitfire på museum i Sverige men det planet går inte att flyga, säger Bertil Gerhardt.
För många representerar en Spitfire något speciellt.
— Tittar man på andra världskriget så användes Spitfire främst för att försvara London och södra England. Planen har kort räckvidd men visst gjorde de räder in i Tyskland och Frankrike. Den nya Spitfire vi har här är en kombinerad spanings- och jaktversion, säger Bertil Gerhardt.

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Nu lyfter Sveriges enda Spitfire mot den skånska himlen.
SvD 19 maj 2008

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Book: AMONG THE DEAD CITIES:
Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime?
by A.C. Grayling
Financial Times 25/2 2006

Was the deliberate targeting of German cities by the Royal Air Force in the last three years of the second world war justified by the threat to Britain and its allies, and by the moral depravity of the Nazi regime? This historical and moral question - also of contemporary relevance - is asked by the philosopher A.C. Grayling in Among the Dead Cities.
His answer is: no.

Grayling's villain is Sir Arthur Harris, head of Bomber Command from February 1942.

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About the book at Amazon.UK

Under the names of "relativism" and "postmodernism", today's prevailing style of thought has it that we can believe what we like and that all beliefs are equally valid, because there is no such thing as truth or objectivity.
RE: Exempelvis, att en uppstoppad get med ett bildäck om sig kan vara konst...
A.C. Grayling, Financial Times, 23/7 2005

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Five Spitfires have taken part in a re-enactment of the first test flight - 70 years after the planes first took to the skies.
BBC 5/3 2006 - In pictures BBC 5/3 2006

Film moguls to make a new man of Biggles
THE TIMES, FRIDAY MAY 12, 2000

Erich von Stalhein
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BIGGLES - 100 år, av Mats Averkvist
i Svensk Flyghistorisk Tidskrift 2/2000

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about Major James Bigglesworth, known to all as "Biggles" at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sixty years after the Battle of Britain, the Blitz on London and devastating raids on other UK cities, there will be memorial services and tributes to those, especially pilots, who prevented an invasion in 1940 by German forces during the Second World War.

The greatest onslaught came on September 15 as the Luftwaffe attempted to flatten London to prepare for an invasion two days later. But a strong defence by Allied fighter aircraft repulsed the attack and ended the attempt to invade.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the pilot and author of the beloved tale "The Little Prince," took off on a World War II spy mission for the Allies and was never seen again. After 60 years, officials have confirmed that the twisted wreckage of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, found on the Mediterranean seabed not far from the rugged cliffs of Provence, belonged to Saint-Exupery
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/07/saint.exupery.ap/index.htmlhttp://www.saint-exupery.org/
http://www.westegg.com/exupery/

Alfa Bravo Charlie - Delta Echo
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Papa Quebec Romeo - Sierra Tango
Uniform Victor Whiskey - X-Ray, Yankee
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Ä Alfa Echo
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Five Six Seven - Eight Niner

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Zäta Åke Ärlig - Östen

Nolla Ett Tvåa - Trea Fyra
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"Biggles i Sverige", Författare: Mählqvist, Stefan, 1943-

Titel: Biggles i Sverige : en litteratursociologisk studie av W E Johns Bigglesböcker / Stefan Mählqvist Ort/Förlag: Stockholm : Gidlund Utgivningsår: 1983, Omfång: 320, [1] s. : ill., tab. Serie: Skrifter / utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet ; 18 ISBN/ISSN: 91-7021-465-4

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About the Spitfire in The Financial Times 1996-05-07:

"Spitfire pilots scramble again"

Twenty-one Spitfires flew across central England yesterday in one of the biggest gatherings of the aircraft since the second world war.

The crowd of more than 30,000 people at the Imperial War Museum's airfield about 80 km north-east of London included Mr Gordon Mitchell, the 75-year-old son of Reginald Mitchell, who died soon after the first Spitfire made its first flight 60 years ago.

Air Vice Marshal "Johnnie" Johnsson, one of the top-scoring allied pilots of the war, said at the airfield: "I am surprised at the interest, but I think the Spitfire has become a kind of immortal thing that people feel helped gain them freedom."

The Supermarine Spitfire, powered by Rolls-Royce engines, was the most famous fighter flown by the Royal Air Force in the war. Forty-seven Spitfires are believed still to exist.

BBC World Service economics correspondent James Morgan in The Financial Times 1996-04-06:

"Biggles and the bleating bulldog"

"Those were the days - of modesty, responsibility and British stiff upper lips"

Last week ... members of parliament spoke of Europe's plot to bring down Britains agriculture. So the two patriotic themes of the past fortnight evolvet: blame the foreigner and demand his cash.

Some readers may, like me, have been reared on a literary diet of Biggles and G.A. Henty. The former was a gallant airman and detective who outwitted the King's enemies from the Somme to Singapore. The latter told tales of schoolboys who could, with a piece of string and a catapult, save their friends from certain death at the hands of Neptune or a Fuzzy-Wuzzy.

Biggles and Henty were not, as the shrewder reader will have deduced, politically correct. But knew what it meant to be British. It meant taking the blame, even when unfairly blamed; accepting responsibility for one's actions, relying on oneself to get out of the mess, and it meant not talking about money.

In a politically correct world, everyone has the right to be a victim. Everyone has the right to other people's money to compensate for self-inflicted wounds. And patriotism is to bleat about foreigners whose sole aim is to do us down.

Today Sir James Bigglesworth, MC, is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Derring & Pluck . In a speech to the House on Mad Cow day he said:

- We are faced today of a crisis of our own, albeit unwitting, making. It may have been exacerbated by foreigners but we recognise that the actions they have taken conform with their national interests. And we accept that these have saved us from the humiliation of seeing Salvador ban our meat one day and Somalia the next.

- We all recognise that mistakes, quite innocently, have been made. We shall overcome their consequences as we have overcome other crisis in our long history; by ourselves, and with our own resources. If that means sacrifices, so be it. If that means lifting burdens from the few and placing them on the shoulders of the many, so be it. If there be guilty men let them come forward - but we seek no scapegoats. This may not be our finest hour, let history not judge it our least worthy.

This, of course, is pure fiction: who would have voted for someone who could spout such nonsense and so flagrantly undemine his country's interests?

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