Recent content by outremerknight

When I came acroos this website I thought 'great, somewhere there will be intelligent discussion' But how wrong I was. It does seem that the majority of the members on here have the maturity of a day old chick and the intelligence to match. They revel in slanging off any one because they are...

To k9kiwi: It seems we are discussing two different I.D.requests. I thought the question of the Reynard was well and truely settled. Perhaps if you made it clear in an earlier posting of yours that the photo that you posted on the top of the page is not the one you want indentified it would not...

I wanted to paste a copy of a photo of a Hawker SEA Fury but I can't. If you can have a look at one you will see it has the same wing root intakes, laminar flow wing, wheel doors, engine cowling, engine exhaust/cooling vents. . . etc, etc. The Sea fury used a five blade prop, the Fury used a...

Hawker Fury? perhaps?

Nice pictures. Sometimes, any picture is better than none. But you did a good job Kasper

I think the Westland Whirlwind never got a fair chance. With better engines it could have been a very good bomber interceptor/killer with its 4x 20mm cannon in the nose and whatever else that it may have been given as the war went on.

My personal opinion is that the best bomber killer was the BF110 series.

"It must have been that Cat Curry last night"

As an RAF cadet officer in the mid-70s we were given two old AA shells by a local man, to be used, he said as trophies for competitions. One of our lads got his father, a good wood worker, to make mounts for them. Then they were taken to an engraver in Belfast where they were found to be live...

Apologies for my earlier input. I was 'hopping' through the topics got on to this one and missed that it was really dedicated to the moon landings only. Did you know that Sir Patrick Moore, whilst in tenure at Armagh Observatory, drew up the plans for the first moon landing and also advised...

I reckon it would cost less than what Jeremy Clarkson et al spends on 'Top Gear'! (I think mosquitoman knows what I mean) and the costs would be recoverd via the usual product placement fees, high level advertising during the programme. Perhaps some sponsorship by an aircraft manufacturer and...

On 12-06 cheddar cheese Konfused with a 'K' wrote: 'Hurricane took out more planes' With out a doubt they did, facts speak clearly, but, there were more of them to do so! About the same ratio of Hurris to Spits in service/fighting as the ratio of 'kills'. So over all, Hurri to Spit kill...

Here's a link to the main RAF site which gives official orders on colouring and markings 1939-45 Code Development_P

As I'm not allowed to start or post new threads I hope no one minds if I put this in here. On this day (July 11th) 50 years ago the first three Spitfires joined Hurricane LF363 to form the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Although the Flight started on paper a couple of months previous it was...

I have some photos of some of the aeroplanes at Hendon, including close up detail pix of the Spitfire 1a V and the Stranraer as well as a few others. If any one wants to share these I am quite willing to email them to them.