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Fresh water aircraft carrier with limited speed on Lake Michigan... must have been fun landing a Corsair on that in winter...

I wonder what ship that is: twin funnel, painted centre-line, but a rivetted metal deck... Some sort of auxiliary carrier, perhaps?

Many thanks for the informative replies. Ted

Well, that was a lot more than I expected, for which many thanks, Mike; I'm going to have to get a copy of that book, which I havent seen before. What's interesting is that he seems to have achieved it by making the most of the Liberator's natural potential and with no messing about with boost...

The following passages come from www.weaponsandwarfare.com, specifically an article entitled 'The Consolidated Liberator in RAF Service': ' First squadron to serve in the Burma theatre was No. 159, whose Middle East detachment was mentioned earlier. This squadron began operations in November...

My vote goes to the boffins who developed the radars and the fairies that kept it working... and here's a question: just when did RDF become 'radar'... and whodunnit?

In the 7th photograph on the first page, there are some things that look like struts in the backgroud, plus something (padded?). I don't know if this is relevant or whether it's a red herring, but it might be worth asking the owner what they are.

Hs293, but I'll have to admit that that's a guess...

Interesting that the cadets seem to be wearing both chest and seat-type parachutes, an odd mix. Of the latter type, the aft-most cadet sems to have his fitted correctly, with the crotch straps in the correct orientation (otherwise ouch!). However, the chap front of him seeme to have ignored the...

Just a brief correction to the above: the legend on the MkXIV sight controller uniit refers to itself as a 'computor', not 'computer'. Signs of the times.

A think there's a problem with terminology here: from my reading on the subject, 'de-gaussing' was applied to ships to negate or balance the natural magnetism in a ship's hull, whereas the intention of the ring on the aircraft was quite the opposite! There probably is a correct name for the...

Thank you, GT, for the magnificent elaboration and for the points of correction. I'd forgotten that Air Commodore Basil Embry was involved, though I shouldn't have; as an adjunct to this particular topic, he is a man whose life story is well worth reading!

Not intended as such, I assure you. What I was trying to get over - somewhat clumsily, as it turned out - is that quoting numbers can't be taken as a basis of comparison on the efficiency (or effectiveness) of any two aircraft because so many secondary factors come into play. How, for instance...

I think that this discussion is beginning to take on a circular aspect. It's a 'what if?', not a constant repetitition of the same arguments in a slightly different form. Let's just agree to disagree.

Finger trouble, or gremlins! That ISBN should be 0-7183-0552-3.