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[fubar57]

Probably already here but a whack 'o U.S. Navy PDFs starting from the age of sail..... Navy Documents

 

[fubar57]

Tons of downloadable documents, these pages are just for what I was looking at.... CONTENTdm

 

[MiTasol]

WATU provided this link.

AP list is mainly radar and radio stuff but has a number of other manuals including Avro 504k and at least one bomb sight

 

[fubar57]

British Cold War aircraft..... Thunder & Lightnings - British Cold War Military Aircraft

 

[MiTasol]

I found these because the scum of the earth have hacked Archive.org and taken them off line for a week. I think this site MIGHT be worth spending a few minutes exploring even tho I did not find anything I wanted.

Archive-It - Explore Archived Content

Archive-It - Aviation Industry in Ireland

 

[MiTasol]

 

[fubar57]

Archive is back up again Mi MiTasol

 

[fubar57]

.....and down again

 

[MiTasol]

yeah - #$%^&* scum of the earth causing it - hackers who are almost certainly being paid to do it for political reasons.

 

[fubar57]

P-51 colour markings.... Airworthy Mustangs | Crazy Horse Aviation Photography

 

[fubar57]

This link is in other threads based on what people are looking for. This is the homepage link.... The Museum of Flight - Digital Collections

 

[fubar57]

Bomber Command losses database.... Discovery, Education and Remembrance | IBCC

 

[fubar57]

Just saw this..... lists all the ships, ports, dates and cargo for all Spitfires shipped overseas. Includes aircraft flown off aircraft carriers to Malta

ships

www.airhistory.org.uk

 

[nuuumannn]

I dunno if anyone has posted this before, but this is the Air Force Museum of New Zealand's official photographic archive digital records. This isn't the entire collection; it is a work in progress as images get scanned and uploaded. There are thousands more. Enter a search function into the search box and images of RNZAF P-40s, Corsairs, Venturas, Mustangs and so on can be found.

FotoWeb

fotoweb.airforcemuseum.co.nz

Entering "Corsair" into the search box:

FotoWeb

fotoweb.airforcemuseum.co.nz

 

[MiTasol]

Links to Aviation magazine

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=aviation1922

 

[MiTasol]

I posted links in post 7 of the thread National Archives technical info on the Merlin

I probably should have posted them here and linked in that thread

 

[MiTasol]

I do not know how accurate this site is - someone sent it to me as a link. I generally avoid sim sites.

Axis and Allies Paintworks

Skins, missions, and campaigns for the IL-2 flight simulation series.

axis-and-allies-paintworks.com

 

[MiTasol]

Mods please move to where you think this fits best.

03.05.1943 No. 487 (New Zealand) Squadron Ventura II AJ209 EG-V Sqn/Ldr. Leonard Henry Trent VC DFC RAF Methwold, Norfolk

is the first page I visited on the site and I was very impressed with the detail and how deep they go into things. I rate this particular page bacon with a complete side of bacon.

 

[Steve Hnz]

Great find, it tells a great tale, but omits a part that was pertinent to me. In 1958, when he had a Valiant in New Zealand for the RNZAF's 21st anniversary, he undertook a flyover his old home town of Nelson, which is also my home town, which included buzzing his old school Nelson College. I was all of 3 at the time but can remember like it was yesterday, my mother with my sister a babe in arms, my gran & I were in the back yard waiting for something, I knew not what, to happen & happen it did. There was a large dark shape, which seemed to fill the sky, which flashed over head to be followed moments later by a most appalling noise, terrifying to a 3 year old. I ran inside as fast as my legs could propel me & dived under the bed clothes, to no avail as Trent had pulled the Valiant into a power climb above his old school, about 1/4 mile in a straight line from our house which was close to right under his flight path. By rights I should have hated aeroplanes from that time but happily not so. The darkness of the Valiant, at the time in antiflash white, was obviously the underside in shadow. Local legend had it if he'd had the U/C down he'd have taken the flag pole off the roof of the school. Hell, I'd love to travel back in time to see that again.

 

[Andrew Arthy]

Hi everyone,

A new blog post has just been released describing some Kampfgeschwader 4 operations with the Heinkel 111 over Poland on 17 September 1939: 17 September 1939: Instead of Warsaw - Air War Publications. Hopefully this is of interest to the forum.

Cheers,
Andrew A.