For sheer beauty, an aircraft which I have only recently become aware of, by surfing Wikipaedia: the Republic XF12 Rainbow. The most streamlined...
For an Englishman the Spitfire is the iconic aircraft; a legend among all the warriors and weapons of history. Apart from the fact that it is among...
Found it now!
Annie Thanks for all your work! Well, I've made one start with adding to a thread! And I take your point about school children starting to...
Australia was the only Dominion country to have its own air service in WW1. The Canadian Air Force was not founded as an independent force until...
Looking good so far! Mostly information type threads; discussions will start to come along later. Putting on information threads is the only way of...
Ok, here I am! Most of my mates from WW2Chat are here, so I'm not going to be left out! I'm interested in both the wars, but WW1 has even more of...
In the original article, it talks of three people being killed in crashes in the 1927 Bournemouth Air Festival. By a coincidence, I was reading...
I always make a New Year resolution about going to bed earlier, but with another forum to visit every night I may as well forget that this year!...
All this shows is that flying bombers over heavily defended enemy territory was a highly dangerous occupation for any type that was slower than the...
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a new year as happy as anyones will be next year! :drum: "Break your Head and Bones!" ("Hals und...
Another over-rated aircraft was the dive-bomber version of the Ju87 Stuka. Great things were expected of it, but (as was discussed in a thread on...
Is he talking about Australian vessels here? If so, surely "carriers" must read "cruisers"?
That figures - I also got a message from Norton saying an attack on my PC had been blocked, shortly after visiting the GWF site. Stupidly, I didn't...
This is the link that I was looking for regarding my previous post: The Major’s Email: British Harrier Support in Afghanistan, Revisited
An army officer got himself into trouble a few months ago for going public about this. Allegedly, the RAF cannot be relied on to provide close...
For starters, I thought there was already a joint helicopter command, and the Harriers operated from carriers are entirely the RAFs GR9 version of...
There can never be a definitive answer, but I admit I am a sucker for this kind of debate.... I've said before on this site and its predecessor:...
Moral Dilemma?? Just supposing the theories are right, and Patton was assassinated by his own side to avoid causing a war with the Russians:...
A very sad loss; he was probably one of the most prominent WW2 RAF pilots left. And I wonder if there is anyone else left who flew Gloster Gauntlets?...
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