Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in

Did he ever talk abuot his accident to you?

From what little I know about it, (the movie) he crashed a Bulldog
doing a hotdog low alt roll.



Bertie

Yes, we discussed it several times. He was always open and honest
about what happened. He was at Woodley on a cross country in the
Bulldog and got into it big time with some civvy pilots hanging out in
the field flight shack. Douglas had a bit of a rep as an aerobatic
pilot and was prone to demonstrating that on a moment's notice I'm
afraid :-) Anyway, Douglas told me the Bulldog was a mess to handle
and was restricted to over 1000 feet for acro. At first he declined
when they asked him for a roll over the field but they apparently
****ed him off (his words on the matter :-)
Anyway, he took off and came around low and slow rolled it. He caught
his left tip and the rest is history.


Yeah, that's exactly how it's represented in the movie.

I never heard DB make any excuses at all for what happened. In fact,
his word on it to me was "Dudley my boy, I simply bollocked it up" We
never did agree on the definition of "bollocked" :-) He said colonials
would never understand the King's English :-)

You;re in luck! I can help you there.


******** de-mystified.





His example... "********ed it up", you already know. but he could have
also said " I made a ******** of it" and it's likely he exclaimed
"********" as his wing touched the runway. Pretty much just **** or ****
in US english.
If someone were to tell you something of which you doubt the veracity
you might say to him "that's ********" in fact it's pretty much a
direct substitute for bull**** or horse ****.
Yet another use is "He's a ********" which is pretty much a straight
swap (or swop of one prefers) for ******* or similar.
You can also give or recieve a bollocking. This roughly translates into
getting a new one torn. Past tense, bollocked.
You can also be ********ed, which means you are very tired. This is not
so common as it more common to say "I'm knackered" which means wrecked,
but ********ed can also be used in more extreme cases of knackeredness.
Can also mean getting drunk in some circles, though that's usually
getting ****ed as I'm sure you know.
And last but not least when some ******** makes a ******** of something
the best think to do is to kick him square in the ********.

Also spelled Bollox and Bollix. If there;s a difference between the
three I'm not aware of it.

I think that's fairly accurate, though it's more than likely some
******** will come along and correct me.


Douglas was never a man to shirk anything. He said he screwed it up
and I could tell from the way he said it that he meant EXACTLY what he
said. Hell...later on when he took over the Canadian Squadron, he
grabbed a fighter the first day he was there on the job as the new CO
and put on a show the old timers STILL talk about. They say the roll
he did that day, with his two tin legs on board, was about as low as
the first one that day in the Bulldog!
Unbelievable character, and one of the finest, most outspoken and
downright tenacious right on guys you could ever hope to meet on the
planet.

Cool. Not a lot you can do when you leave a wreck somewhere anyway but
own up.
Wonder what he'd make of his countrymen's craze for burying vintage
aircraft.


Bertie