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Junkers F-13s photos are so coolhttps://www.google.com/search?q=فرودگاه+قلعه+مرغی&oq=فرودگاه+قلعه+مرغی&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l4.6034j0j7&client=ms-android-hmd-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
You're welcome. The very first Junkers was bought the Imperial Postal Service. A model build of it, is available at the Post Museum. I think the model should be around 1:10 or something like it ... That's much bigger than most of models available in GB threads.Junkers F-13s photos are so coolThanks for sharing!
Manston was so close to LW airfields in France it was almost on the wrong side of the barbed wire in trench warfare terms, the only airfield the RAF considered giving up on.I always remember the line "Manston in the dust" from the book version of The Battle Of Britain.
I recall also that between the radar picking up the bombers forming up over France and the raid arriving over the SE coast would be 15-20 minutes. Certainly a very narrow window to take off from a point like Manston/Hawkinge - get yourselves organised and then climb to a decent altitude to intercept. Then, as you say - possibly coming back to find some enterprising German had blown a load of craters across your home runway....Manston was so close to LW airfields in France it was almost on the wrong side of the barbed wire in trench warfare terms, the only airfield the RAF considered giving up on.
Manston was an emergency landing field 9,000ft long and 750ft wide, a single engine plane with no problems could land going across it. I used to race on one of the others Carnaby in Yorkshire, you never had any feeling of it being a runway just a huge industrial estate.I recall also that between the radar picking up the bombers forming up over France and the raid arriving over the SE coast would be 15-20 minutes. Certainly a very narrow window to take off from a point like Manston/Hawkinge - get yourselves organised and then climb to a decent altitude to intercept. Then, as you say - possibly coming back to find some enterprising German had blown a load of craters across your home runway....
Those same airfields did however become quite useful when the shoe was on the other foot (e.g. sending fighter-bomber sweeps over to France later on).
It would be very great if you post those photos.A couple more pictures and the History of the beginning of the Louisiana ANG by Vincent & Monstedt if any are interested.