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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.
  13. Wow! A serious Barracuda fan. The Barracuda with invasion stripes is probably an RAF aircraft of 567 Sqn based at RAF Detling, possibly either P9941 or P9942.
  14. The AP for the Mk I and II doesn’t mention the RX/5/11 nor the RX/B5/8, just the same props as mentioned on the MkII and Mk III AP.
  15. Barracuda I had the Rotol RX5/12 propeller and the Barracuda IIs and IIIs had the Rotol R4/4B5/2 propeller.
  16. 11ft 8.5ins actually for all Mk IIs, be they fitted with three or four-bladed props. 11ft 9ins was the Mk I three-blade diameter. This information is directly from the original Air Publication leading particulars section.
  17. 11ft 8.5ins for all Mk IIs and IIIs with the Merlin 32 engine. 11ft 9ins was the Mk I three-blade diameter for the Merlin 30 engine. This information is directly from the original Barracuda Air Publication leading particulars section.
  18. No, Gosport was a separate airfield to Lee-on-Solent. It was RAF Gosport until transferred to the RN in 1945. RAF Gosport was one of the home bases for carrier borne FAA squadrons before the war.
  19. Although the Barracuda could only carry one 500lb bomb or two 250lb bombs under each wing. It could a 1000lb or 2000 lb bomb under the fuselage but no other load.
  20. The store was attached to the rack off aircraft then the rack and store were winched up by cable through the wing and retained by latches inside the wing structure, each rack resting on four fixed pads beneath the wing. The internal latch mechanism was accessible via small rectangular panels on top of and below the wing surface, the winch resting on the top surface of the wing when in use.
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