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On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:01:21 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On 2025-04-12 6:10 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
>> On 2025-04-12, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> 
>>> (re: 'Day of the Triffids')
>> 
>>> The 1963 film, the 1981 BBC series, or the 2009 BBC series?
>> 
>> The 1981 series, although I seem to recall it as one movie.
>> Probably I binge-watched it.
>> 
>> The funniest part for me was the military officer saying
>> how many helicopters he crashed learning how to fly one,
>> presumably with no instructor or simulator, &c.
>> 
>Back in those days planes were relatively cheap. I have been reading a 
>number of books about WW II and air force stuff lately and recently came 
>across a factoid that in WWII there were more training deaths in 
>training and in accidents than in combat.
>
>On a related note.. my father did 18 1/2 operational flights.

The half flight's intriguing. I hope that's not a flight he didn't
return from.

>Due to him 
>having had contact with thee Danish Resistance he was not allowed to go 
>on operational flight over Europe so he spent some time as an instructor 
>at a conversion unit in England and was then sent back to Canada to work 
>at a operational training unit.  One of his best friends as killed in a 
>training accident there.  One of the guys in this unit was Robert 
>Cloutier who ended up playing Relic in The Beachcombers.  I remember him 
>staying with us for a while and how he helped my father sod the lawn in 
>our new house. My mother later commented on being amazed at him being 
>able to help because he had been in a crash and had broken half the 
>bones in his body and spent about a year in hospital.

First he didn't want to help but then he thought "Oh, sod it!"

-- 
Bruce
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