Talk:Vickers F.B.5

Major Archibald Reith Low RAF MA FRAeS (1878 - 1969)
I have restored the edit, as I am ARL's grandson and heard this and other stories from the great man himself.

The pilot of the FB1 that crashed was killed and the design was deemed a failure, despite my grandfather traipsing across an Irish bog to get to the plane, where he dismantled the engine to discover the lack of oil. He was on his own and therefore not witnesssed.

I suppose that the reference to the entry can be me: Mr Giles Duncan Edmondston-Low TD

I have the obituary that my father (Mr Richard Cecil Edmondston-Low CEng, AFRAeS, FBIS (1909-1982) wrote for The Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, April 1970. If you would like it, you would be welcome to have it. Wikipedia won't publish an obituary, even if the RAeS released the copyright, but I leave the rest up to you.

You can contact me on giles@the-it-department.net

Giles


 * The above (with a little detective work) turns out to be about the Vickers F.B.5 article. It seems to me to be common sense (perhaps I am just old-fashioned in imagining there is such a thing), but DO "digitally sign" your posts with four tildes "~" signs so we know who we're talking to - and do give a clear indication of the article we're talking about. Obituaries (and other "anecdotal" sources) are NOT "encyclopedic" - this has nothing directly to do with copyright as such, it's just that they are notoriously subject to error: including errors of transmission, not to mention the tendency for human memory to muddle different real (and imaginary) events. Without going onto great detail, The event described seems on the face of it highly unlikely. Unlikely events do (rarely) happen, but they cry out for a "reliable source". Independent (and documented) confirmation in fact. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 20:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)