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Originally Posted by MichaelS
Makes me want to put rockets on my P-47 and meet you in the sandbox! Really good job on that Tigger.
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You know, it's weird that a few words spark a memory. 8 or 9 years old and my friend Nicholas who had an uncle who worked for Airfix. Nick had a Lancaster and his build skills were not quite up to it but as it was a flawed product with bubbles etc, it did not matter much. Just after Bonfire night (November 5th) Nick asked me to meet him after tea. Alan another friend was there too and Nick brought his bodged Lancaster out into the garden with two rockets, one under each wing and after careful placement in milk bottles, lit the blue touchpaper. It went off almost vertical and faster in our minds than the real thing. Boom, cue molten plastic over the gardens four or five houses each side (Mine included) and grounded for six weeks. Oh well it qualified for fun then.......