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You could just answer the question. Obviously there are many readers here not intimately aware of RAF history.

by mechanical_bear 4y ago

SirYandi 4y ago
I assume they were referring to the blitz in WW2, where the RAF defended Britain from Nazi bombing runs.
- wtallis 4y ago
  The plane in question doesn't seem to have entered service until shortly after the end of WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Vampire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Vampire
  - zabzonk 4y ago
    The question is really not about a particular fighter, but about the RAF.
    - mechanical_bear 4y ago
      So…rather than us guessing about which particular piece of information, you could just tell us and stop being so cryptic?
    - hnbad 4y ago
      So if this wasn't during WW2, how exactly was he protecting the farmer other than in the same generic sense in which the farmer was feeding him? Most Western militaries spent most of their time after WW2 doing other things than defending their nations' citizens so the question seems valid. I'm not initimately familiar with the UK's 20th century military hijinks but the only two significant conflicts I can think of were the Falklands (which seems to have pretty much exclusively been fought overseas) and the Troubles (which fighter planes wouldn't have helped with).
      - smcl 4y ago
        It's just a misunderstanding I think. It sounds like the OP's dad was in the RAF during the war, and "risking his life to protect the farmer" was a reference to that rather than the particular flight he was on when he had to make the emergency landing in the field. So I can sort-of understand why they are being defensive. In their eyes there are commenters denying their father's effort in the war. But the commenters were actually either trying to understand if there's an extra story or were puzzled what kind of life-saving flights could be conducted in the British mainland in the years following the war.
zabzonk 4y ago
- MerelyMortal 4y ago
  One person spending 1 minute to write a reply versus a dozen people spending 15 minutes trying to find the right answer.
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- smcl 4y ago
  The issue is that it sounded like there was some intrigue, a potentially interesting side story that wasn't well known outside some RAF-adjacent people. And when people asked about this you didn't clarify and it seemed you were getting annoyed with them. But really they just wanted to know more about your dad's story :)

You could just answer the question. Obviously there are many readers here not intimately aware of RAF history.

SirYandi 4y ago

I assume they were referring to the blitz in WW2, where the RAF defended Britain from Nazi bombing runs.

wtallis 4y ago
The plane in question doesn't seem to have entered service until shortly after the end of WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Vampire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Vampire
- zabzonk 4y ago
  The question is really not about a particular fighter, but about the RAF.
  - mechanical_bear 4y ago
    So…rather than us guessing about which particular piece of information, you could just tell us and stop being so cryptic?
  - hnbad 4y ago
    So if this wasn't during WW2, how exactly was he protecting the farmer other than in the same generic sense in which the farmer was feeding him? Most Western militaries spent most of their time after WW2 doing other things than defending their nations' citizens so the question seems valid. I'm not initimately familiar with the UK's 20th century military hijinks but the only two significant conflicts I can think of were the Falklands (which seems to have pretty much exclusively been fought overseas) and the Troubles (which fighter planes wouldn't have helped with).
    - smcl 4y ago
      It's just a misunderstanding I think. It sounds like the OP's dad was in the RAF during the war, and "risking his life to protect the farmer" was a reference to that rather than the particular flight he was on when he had to make the emergency landing in the field. So I can sort-of understand why they are being defensive. In their eyes there are commenters denying their father's effort in the war. But the commenters were actually either trying to understand if there's an extra story or were puzzled what kind of life-saving flights could be conducted in the British mainland in the years following the war.

zabzonk 4y ago

MerelyMortal 4y ago
One person spending 1 minute to write a reply versus a dozen people spending 15 minutes trying to find the right answer.
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smcl 4y ago
The issue is that it sounded like there was some intrigue, a potentially interesting side story that wasn't well known outside some RAF-adjacent people. And when people asked about this you didn't clarify and it seemed you were getting annoyed with them. But really they just wanted to know more about your dad's story :)