Still behind enemy lines, but main mission accomplished. Can't say too much at the mo'.Thought I'd share this quick pic with you of our postal service biplane we created out of scrap wheel barrows to smuggle these messages out...
TTFN!
Wing Co
Showing posts with label Biplanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biplanes. Show all posts
Monday, 12 October 2009
Psst! Quick message...
Still behind enemy lines, but main mission accomplished. Can't say too much at the mo'.Thought I'd share this quick pic with you of our postal service biplane we created out of scrap wheel barrows to smuggle these messages out...
TTFN!
Wing Co
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Mission de-brief
I, and some junior Intel Officers surveyed the ancient aircraft the SAS had found abandoned in the desert We thought they'd perfect for our clandestine operations. Made of string and wood, y'see, so invisible to the enemy's radar...
As I had heroically volunteered for the most dangerous mission, despite my lovely Carruthers begging me not to, I thought it best to false flag my aircraft in case the bugger got shot down.
Rather classically, I thought, we set off at dawn...
Our mission was two fold...
One: Locate & Destroy the enemy's prototype aerial battleship. Intel Cor thought this might give our ground forces some serious strafing hassle.
Two: Stop the supply trains so they couldn't build another of this terrifying leviathans...
We attacked against all odds...
And destroyed our objectives...
We returned to our base...
..safely, though some not quite as unscathed as others...
However, we all got that al important hero's welcome home!
TTFN!
As I had heroically volunteered for the most dangerous mission, despite my lovely Carruthers begging me not to, I thought it best to false flag my aircraft in case the bugger got shot down.
Rather classically, I thought, we set off at dawn...
Our mission was two fold...
One: Locate & Destroy the enemy's prototype aerial battleship. Intel Cor thought this might give our ground forces some serious strafing hassle.
Two: Stop the supply trains so they couldn't build another of this terrifying leviathans...
We attacked against all odds...
And destroyed our objectives...
We returned to our base...
..safely, though some not quite as unscathed as others...However, we all got that al important hero's welcome home!
TTFN!
Monday, 24 August 2009
Back in action!
Tally Ho chaps and chapettes, Wing Co's back!
Sorry for the long delay in posting Intel, but I've been deep behind enemy lines.
Something to do with defence cutbacks and yours truly being the one the few (Literally, - God I miss my Spitfire) old enough to remember how to fly stringbags. We'd left them in the desert eons ago, and a SAS patrol were suprised and delighted to find them in fairly good condition. Something to do with the old dry air. So, got the call from Her Madge, God bless her, would I mind doing bit for the old Country (God bless it) again... So, one's been strafing the buggers, spying on 'em etc, etc and had maintain the old wireless silence, don't you know.
Hasn't been all bad. What with the all that camping out under the desert night stars with me sexy ground crews...
See you soon. Keep checking back, over...
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Ace picture
Grumman F3F-2 fighters fly over as the USS Enterprise in San Diego Bay, USA, 1940
by Steve Anderson. http://www.anderson-art.com/
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
FE8
WW1 1915 revolutionary British design with prop at rear to give the pilot and his machine gun unrestricetd view of enemy aircraft.
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI
A giant WW1 bomber,the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of 1917-18.
It had an eight man crew, and needed a ground staff of 42 just to get the plane out of the hangar!
The bomber was the largest wooden aircraft ever built until the advent of the Howard Hughes H-4 Hercules, the "Spruce Goose"in 1947.
The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI's wingspan of 138 feet 5.5 inches (42.2 meters) nearly equaled that of the World War II B-29 Superfortress!
It operated 11 raids on Great Britain between September 28, 1917, and May 20, 1918, dropping 27,190 kg (30 tons) of bombs in 30 sorties. Aircraft flew to their targets on moonlit nights, using directional bearings by radio and using the river Thames as a navigational landmark. Missions on the 340-mile round trip lasted seven hours. None were lost in combat over Britain, but two crashed returning to base in the dark. A total of four R.VI's were shot down in combat, with six others destroyed in crashes.
Six of the 18 eventually built survived the war or were completed after the armistice.
It had an eight man crew, and needed a ground staff of 42 just to get the plane out of the hangar!
The bomber was the largest wooden aircraft ever built until the advent of the Howard Hughes H-4 Hercules, the "Spruce Goose"in 1947.
The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI's wingspan of 138 feet 5.5 inches (42.2 meters) nearly equaled that of the World War II B-29 Superfortress!
It operated 11 raids on Great Britain between September 28, 1917, and May 20, 1918, dropping 27,190 kg (30 tons) of bombs in 30 sorties. Aircraft flew to their targets on moonlit nights, using directional bearings by radio and using the river Thames as a navigational landmark. Missions on the 340-mile round trip lasted seven hours. None were lost in combat over Britain, but two crashed returning to base in the dark. A total of four R.VI's were shot down in combat, with six others destroyed in crashes.
Six of the 18 eventually built survived the war or were completed after the armistice.
Thursday, 13 March 2008
HEROES OF AVIATION ( 6 ) Orville and Wilbur Wright
The Wright Brothers
Orville (left) and Wilbur Wright (right)
The First Flight: December 17, 1903
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1902 glider
1901 glider
Orville (left) and Wilbur Wright (right)
The First Flight: December 17, 1903
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1902 glider
1901 glider
Sunday, 24 February 2008
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