{"id":7155,"date":"2025-02-07T08:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2025-02-07T08:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:43:54","slug":"friday-february-7th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/07\/friday-february-7th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday February 7th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; The Dambusters &#8211; Commanded by Guy Gibson &#8211; who was later killed flying a Mosquito over Europe. &#8211; They made a brilliant movie of that raid starring Richard Todd &#8211; The crews did a lot of testing of the Barnes Wallace bouncing bomb over the Elan Valley and other locations. &#8211; They discovered the bomb ( like a large oil drum) had to be dropped at an altitude of only 50ft above the water, and the &#8220;Boffin&#8217;s&#8221; came up with the ingenious idea of shining two spotlights one from the front and one from the rear of the Lancaster bombers, which merged act exactly the right altitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taff was the first in &#8211; then Pete from OZ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today &#8211; Guess who and where??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yanks-at-SSDT-73.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yanks-at-SSDT-73.jpg 720w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yanks-at-SSDT-73-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a nice shot of Mick with his James, which will be on display at the Telford show this weekend &#8211; looking back I think I really should have taken it for a put &#8211; put, around the yard in Scotland when he offered in 1992. I can tell you this bike is a far cry from he Model James we had back in the 1950&#8217;s. ( Mick told me a few of the Yam bits he installed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mick-and-his-James.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mick-and-his-James.jpg 526w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mick-and-his-James-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/001.jpg 614w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/001-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>most of our bloggers will have seen my mention of Heath Brindley  from the UK &#8211; he has been involved with Trials for a very long time and helps out Steve Saunders with some projects, plus posts a lot on FB of his exploits. Here he shows off the neat painting on the back of the TRS UK van<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Heath-and-SXS-Van.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Heath-and-SXS-Van.jpg 640w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Heath-and-SXS-Van-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Footnote!! Dental visit went OK &#8211; that is 8 teeth out now!!! a very good Dentist who always calls later in the evening to make sure I&#8217;m OK. &#8211; next month we go to the next stage. &#8211; but I promise to be smiling at the first Trial!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No word from Katy, hope her Knee Op went OK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birthday greetings to Jason Munns today. from Penticton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; The Dambusters &#8211; Commanded by Guy Gibson &#8211; who was later killed flying a Mosquito over Europe. &#8211; They made a brilliant movie of that raid starring Richard Todd &#8211; The crews did a lot of testing of the Barnes Wallace bouncing bomb over the Elan Valley and other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/07\/friday-february-7th-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday February 7th\/25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}