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Appears to be Gen. Doolittle speaking to The Queen.
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Nice shots!
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A Queen Bee on floats sits in the cradle on the steam catapult roundtable at the Burrow Head Anti-Aircraft Artillery range in Scotland the net
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The only remnant of the Queen Bee program at RAF Cleave in Cornwall today is the concrete base upon which the catapult was rotated into the wind the net
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The catapult at Burrow Head, used for launching Queen Bee pilotless target aircraft the net
Yep, he was the 15th AAF commanding general at that time.
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I'd say that Doolittle is talking to the Queen Mother with Elizabeth II being to her right....
The Queen was different at that time - she became the "queen mother" later.
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Why did the Queen Bee have floats? Is there a record of anyone successfully landing one, damaged or undamaged, by radio control?
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There is posting by one of the guys who says he has first hand information on their construction (I believe he said he was told) in the picture of the day thread.
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Oh, right, wrong kinda float....ma bad!
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I'll have one of those, please.
Actually, Doolittle was in England as head of the Eighth AF; the photo was from 6 July 1944.
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Dana
Thanks, Dana! This was his "next assignment". Being mostly interested in the MTO-AAForces, I have forgotten about the rest.
Good shots!
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Delicious drink!
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The Germans investigated and eventually produced a number of small un-piloted target and reconnaissance aircraft called the Argus As292 the net
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Though Tiger Moth Queen Bees had been in use for some time, Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited a launch site at the Weybourne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Range on the Norfolk coast on 6 June 1941 with Secretary of State for War David Margesson the net
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With the relative success of the early Queen Bees, Airspeed Limited designed the lovely Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp in 1937. Only five prototypes were built the net
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