Recent content by Skua

Going right back to the original question...surely the answer is why try and improve this mediocre aircraft when new four engine machines with far greater performance are scheduled to appear. I exclude the Manchester of course.

Yes, he looks a fascinating character.....I had a look and came up with these...they may help with further research. https://www.andrewwmarshallfoundation.org/andrew-w-marshall https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/andrew-marshall-brain-pentagon-passed-away/588952/

'The British transferred 246 Squadron's Spitfire Mk. VIIIs in 1946, when the squadron left Tan Son Nhut to return to England, and these were supplemented by Spitfire LF.IXc and Mosquito FB.VI fighter-bombers hurriedly ferried in from Europe. These airplanes performed poorly in the colonial...

Please see http://www.hedgehoghollow.com/awoic/french_spitfires.html Created by an aircraft modeller in 2010

Seafires ! Yes, news to me that they had linen control surfaces...I need more research. Two seat Spitfires. In my copy (see below) I refer to Chapter 6: Diary: The Women, p.137 and tells a very sad story of a widow (3 times) who was invited for a ride in a two seat Spitfire piloted by the...

Bernard Fall's book 'Street Without Joy' is an excellent account of France's doomed attempt to hold on the their French Indo-China colonial empire. The book must have been ignored by the Pentagon as it seems the USA went through exactly the same experience - all be it for a different raison...

Great images, my favourite: the B24 in RAF Coastal Command colours. My thanks Snautzer01

Thanks for all of the information and photographs. I for one did not appreciate just how big the camp was and the red line graphically illustrates just how short 'Harry' was. Continuing the fight - I read several years ago of a French fighter pilot serving from 1940 alongside the RAF fighting...

Hopefully, as this is only my 3rd posting on this fascinating site this is correct/the right place. I am now 70 and can remember my first air show at HMS Seahawk, Culdrose, Cornwall, UK about 65/66 years ago. It was and is a concrete ship i.e. an airfield run by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm...

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Very interesting information on a possible Italian carrier; plus the radar/Fulmar experiments, thanks. Oh...I am glad that, like me, a few people like the Buffalo.....

SBD ...I hope I can see a flying example here in the UK...but now aged 70 I am becoming time expired :) I can remember the Monogram(?) 1/48 or 1/32 for sale in the mid 1970s in a model shop in Lincoln. Your kit looks great, as a Brit I always admired Anyone who flew from a carrier or over the...