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  1. The simplest way to achieve that in production would be by replacing Perspex with sheet metal thereby retaining the oval shapes. Complete reskinning would involve more design effort to achieve.
  2. That may have been me. I pointed out that the code numbers on one side of the CR42 were transposed.
  3. Only the first two volumes were published, I have both. They are comprehensive for the subjects they cover and are originally researched: they are definitely not compilations of Wiki articles! I would have bought any subsequent volumes as they would have been the definitive works on the Luftwaffe as an organization.
  4. Also the Hawker and Westland designs to S.24/37.
  5. There are numerous errors in the text and captioning of the book.
  6. It could be OB that was 45 Sqn operating Blenheims in North Africa and the Middle East.
  7. Air-Britain books ‘Under B-Conditions’ and ‘Fleet Air Arm Fixed-Wing Aircraft since 1946’.
  8. The second batch of six were sold to the French Customs Administration for use in Indo-China by Vickers Armstrong Supermarine that had bought them back from the Fleet Air Arm. Serials were JM797, JM741, JM953, JM879, JM873 and JM884 that became N82 to N87 respectively. They were shipped to Saigon from the UK in 1950.
  9. Only the first photo is Operation TUNGSTEN. Photo 2 is Operation CROQUET on 6 May 44 and Photo 3 is Operation GOODWOOD during August 1944.
  10. There are no known colour photos of these aircraft so all colours are speculative but RK409 (HMS Theseus, Queen Elizabeth), RK476 (HMS Vengeance 301-Q) and RK479 (HMS Vengeance 302-Q) are all likely to have been overall a gloss dark blue. Purple as a paint for aircraft just wouldn’t have been available to the FAA at the time and there is no evidence to suggest that purple rather than blue was used so it is a pure guess on the part of the author.
  11. https://www.mediafire.com/file/vbht4zglati7gbb/Wyvern.pdf/file
  12. A hyphen makes all the difference, they should be the FM-1 and FM-2, the first and second versions of the FM. There would have been no F1M, the FM would have been followed by the F2M as different General Motors fighter designs. For example Grumman naval fighters were FF, F2F, F3F, F4F etc.
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