I'm sure Biggles would have thought of something! :director: :plane:
I just found this thread on theaerodrome.com. Apparently Chaz Bowyer died on 24th June. He was the author of many books on aviation history and WW2...
BBC journalist Sir Charles Wheeler was a Royal Marines Captain in WW2. Of course he was better known for his later career, but with the...
Maybe not all the pictures are from the Med. Its not the Renown in the picture; there are too many dissimilarities. The seaplane crane on the extreme...
And probably about the Sopwith Camel and Handley Page O/400!
Isn't it annoying when people can spend their final year posting 1400 messages on this forum, plus thousands more on previous forums, and STILL get a...
I've tried to identify the ships in the row of photos on the bottom of this website. In the one tagged as "Escort Ships", the upper, background,...
On the Force Z website, see the section on SS Automedon. Sending information by insecure means is apparently not a new habit of the British...
Destroyed in France? No Spitfires were based in France before Dunkirk though of course they were in action over it. Maybe it was a squadron which...
Only just noticed this thread... Yes, I am a member of C&C; I've only joined fairly recently but WW1 aviation has been a lifelong interest....
Thanks everyone! At least it was a Sunday this time so didn't have to work. Next year is one with a '0' in it! Adrian
Are we being too clever here? I'll guess Saudi Arabia
HMS Cavalier, the last British WW2 destroyer, is preserved at Chatham Dockyard Museum. She is on the Visitors Guide website that you mention. But one...
Great stuff, but why do modern articles on WW1 biplanes always talk of "rickety" (or "frail") biplanes? They were very strongly built; they had to...
Does "not holding an FAA medical" imply that he cannot fly solo? Without wishing to knock what Ernest Trent does, I believe the oldest person in...
A sad loss of a great and good man. There cannot be many left who were RAF pilots before WW2. If he was with 99 and 58 sqdns in 1937 he must have...
Aviation can have dire effects on one's personal image. See attached pic of yours truly posing in a Grob 103 glider at Kenley I need to stress...
There is a VC gallery at the IWM - at the back and to the left of the main, large exhibits hall IIRC. Its possible that it was a temporary exhibition...
In fact I have heard of this in reality. There was article in Aeroplane Monthly (I think) a while ago with a photo showing Seafires being used to...
A good descriptive account, though DSC should read either DSO or DFC (DSC was/is a Naval award). And I don't think 20mm shells were anywhere near a...
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