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War is a horrible thing, though sometimes fascinating because of technology and sheer perverse aesthetic viscera We must all be friends now, and either accept each other or attempt to be historians in an effort to understand and record important things for the sake of history. The time...

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Nothing to do with the Vulcan project, though I think that's a worthy cause. Am appalled to see the one at Duxford turfed out into the open to fester the way the Victor et al have. Used to have its own indoor hangar area with training WE-177 nukes on show. The rust and rot is already setting...

My Dad was assigned as a Rad/Nav as he could understand the radar even though he was pilot-qualified in Canada. He stayed in the RAF until 1967 and even had 800 hours on the Berlin Airlift humantiarian missions on DC3s/C-47s in 1948. I set up a reunion with his wartime pilot xxxxx and they...

My Dad flew NF Mosquitoes with 600 Sqn. Over Italy After flying Beaufighter VI.f's with AI MkVIII radar in North Africa with 153 and 46 Sqns. Of many intercepts he conducted he said that the EAC that was "impossible" to shoot down was the Ju-87 because even with wheels-down they could...

The RAF accounts differ from that. It posssibly might have been a Heinkel He-162 owing to the twin-tails which were similar in rear aspect to a He-219, but the crew's description was very specific... They had enough time to ID the Bandit as He-219 and watched it go up, then down. There were...

Mosquito NF XIX or XXX - i.e. later builds with AI MkX radar and new airframes. The XXXs had the more powerful two-stage Merlines, but the XIXs had more effective exhaust flame damping (harder to see). I read accounts in Martin Bowman's Mosquito books about Heinkel 219 Uhu's fitted with...