Noticed this after a modern Day RAF simulation of Les Knight RAAF and his crew to see if they could pull it off. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3912185.shtml
What was the programme, Spidge? Here's a clip of Ray Grayston, Les's Flight Engineer talking about him: http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/video_galleries/dambusters_2.php (video entitled Les Knight. If you can't open pop-ups then move the cursor over "Play Clip", right click on mouse and "open in another window")
I can't remember the name, but it was done by the BBC to see if modern day people could carry out the same job as done fifty years ago! i
Sorry Kyt, Sorry if it seemed confusing as I omitted to put in the BBC link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3912185.shtml Missed the intro and cannot find the foxtel guide to viewing. The present day RAF crew (female pilot) simulated in a Lancaster. I had a visitor near the end and only caught that they had succeeded but hit to the left of where Knight did. They were using only ww2 available aids in navigation etc. This was possibly the same guy being interviewed however a few years older and a lot greyer. Much was said about how they had did a dummy run at the Eder and used a new method to adjust the fast speed after quickly dropping altitude to line up the dam.
I tried the BBC website but there was nothing there about the programme and yes I remember the female pilot.
Oh, that one - I know the programme you guys mean: http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/B/bombercrew/crew/index.html
I was just thinking it was CH4. I watched it and was mildly digusted that they recalculated the final run so they did hit the dam. That was a cop out.
