Recent content by Martin W

A piece of history disappearing... the mansion which housed Fighter Command HQ during the Battle of Britain, including Dowding's own cabinet, is to be converted to luxury flats. Spitfire Site News: The uncertain future of Bentley Priory /Martin

Lack of rigidity was another disadvangate of the basket weave framework. It is for the same reason that Wellington/Warwick could not be employed as glider tugs. Also, the prviously mentioned balooning of fabric covering over the latticework on the wings was aerodynamically much less efficient...

I remember reading somewhere about Seafire losses due to landing accidents in the Mediterranean (Torch - Sicily - Salerno). A commodity most prone to damage during landing with Seafire II/III was the propeller, which often got shatterred against the deck even on fairly "controlled" landings. As...

Thanks for the links. I knew some of them, while other were new to me. Useful indeed. /Martin

I have tried to assemble the known facts about this accident here. Sadly not only the pilot died, but the aircraft appears to be completely destroyed in the resulting fire. http://www.spitfiresite.com/blog/ /Martin

I have attempted to assemble the established facts about yesterday's Shoreham Hurricane crash in my article here: http://www.spitfiresite.com/blog/ /Martin

Thanks for your replies. This kind of feedback is extremely valuable. > To Kurfurst, regarding strenght reports, orders of battles, production data: This is one of the items on my long-term "candidates" list for the site. You write that the data is availabale on the web, any links? To...

Although I am a frequent reader of ww2aircraft.net I haven't been posting here before. Some of you may have come across the IPMS Stockholm site ( IPMSStockholm.org ), which I have been developing for the past 10 years or so. I have for some time been contemplating developing a...