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Last several months and which played out over a process of years. that problem, according to u.s. officials, has gotten worse since 2021, according to the u.s. iran has attempted to seize or harass about 20 commercial vessels in international waters, and that's gotten worse in recent months. this plan would put teams of about 20 u.s. navy sailors or marines on commercial vessels as a way of deterring iran from attempting to interfere with those ships according to a u.s. official familiar with the plans. some sailors are already trained on this, and u.s. marines who are in the middle east now a...
On a mission from wick in scotland to the fjords of norway. norway was really strategically important because of the arctic convoys. it's also where the formidable german battleship the turpitz was loitering for much of the war in and around the norwegian fjords. it was very important that they gather up enough information to be able to eventually launch a successful bombing mission to sink it. sandy was over the tirpitz and unfortunately was strafed by two german planes and unfortunately was shot down. sandy's spitfire crashed into a peat bog on a mountain. but as sandy himself descended by p...
Assemblies in sandown, where sandy's spitfire is being reborn. so the process we go through in order to restore one of these aeroplanes is to take every single bit apart, work out what we've got and whether it is usable, patternable or whether it's of no use whatsoever. but overall, i think we're looking at about 35% of the finished aeroplane will be original 810. these are not parts that you would find on any other spitfire, are they? no. these are the camera parts that would have fitted in the bottom of the fuselage that we recovered from the wreck. there were two of them because they were s...