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The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was an ambitious and desperate project of the German war machine in World War Two. Send a Luftwaffe pilot screaming through the sky in a rocket powered, single engine, swept wing tailless interceptor at over 9oo km/h (close to 600 mph) to rapidly get above Allied bomber formations, then with…
Folland ”Gnat” Mk1, plany modelarskie. (Źródło: Modelarz nr 11/1961).
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Heinkel He 111 was a German aircraft designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934 - English
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The 12th of December 1939 was a stormy winters day, with low cloud over Southampton. This was the middle of the ’Phoney War’, that strange 8 month lull after Germany invaded Poland in September when we expected Germany to invade at any moment, and were under a constant fear of air raids. 754 Squadron Fleet Air Arm RN was stationed nearby at HMS Daedalus, the RNAS seaplane station at Lee on the Solent. (It’s still there and is now home to the Hovercraft Museum.) That afternoon a Royal Navy Supermarine Walrus MkI K8556 took off on a training flight, with a crew of four on board. Designed by RJ Mitchell and built in Woolston, Southampton, the prototype Walrus first flew in 1933. A hardy little single engine biplane, and one of the first amphibious aircraft to enter squadron service in 1936, with a folding undercarriage that allowed it to land and take off on both water and land. It was also built tough enough to be launched by catapult on board ships, and K8556 saw previous service on the new Town Class Light Cruiser HMS Southampton in 1938, as Black 34. Launched by catapult at 70mph, its main role was reconnaissance and to act as a spotter for the ships guns, before landing in the water beside the ship and being recovered by the ships crane. Like Mitchell’s more famous design the Spitfire, it would remain in service all through the war and beyond. On board this flight were pilots Lt Herriot-Hill (aged 24) of the RN and Pilot Officer Fortnum (19) of the RAF, along with Leading Airman McLoughlin (25) and Air Mechanic Moorhead (19), both RN. Their training flight would take them over Southampton, a prime target for the German Luftwaffe with it’s docks and aircraft factories and very much on the front line, and defended by Anti Aircraft (Ack Ack) defences. As well as light and heavy guns and searchlights these also included barrage balloons, flown over the city on strong cables that would destroy any aeroplane that hit them, and designed to hinder low level bombing raids. Parks and playing fields were ideal places to site this units in built up areas, and St Mary's College grounds were home to a Bofors Ack Ack gun, a searchlight and a barrage balloon unit. They were controlled by the Ack Ack Command HQ who would inform them when raids were expected, and local RAF and FAA squadrons would be briefed to know where these anti aircraft sites were located and what height the balloons would be winched out to so they didn’t fly into them. Unfortunately on this winters afternoon with it’s bad weather and poor visibility, the Walrus hit the cable of the barrage balloon moored at the college. It was critically damaged and came down at the bottom of Lances Hill, in the front garden of 340 Bitterne Road at 2.50pm. All four crew members died in the crash. (Directly opposite Hum Hole, the area of ground were parts of aircraft were reportedly dumped, and visible long after the war.) McLoughlin, Fortnum and Herriot-Hill are all buried in Haslar Royal Navy Cemetery in Gosport. Moorhead at Hartlepool West View Cemetery in Durham. Richard Herriot Mackay Herriot-Hill (24), Lieut, R.N., of Spring Gardens. London, S.W. Michael Fortnum (19), R.A.F. officer, Grove Road, East Molesey, Surrey Michael M’Loughlin (25), Leading Airman, Mersea Road, Colchester, Essex Louis Moorhead (19), air mechanic, Malton Street, East Hartlepool, Durham. References - Sussex History Forum sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=7953.0 CWGC records www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2438432/fortnum,-mich... www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2438597/mcloughlin,-m... www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2838248/moorhead,-louis/ www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2438495/heriot-hill,-... Crash Report aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=202861 Barrage Balloon account www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a4551383.s...
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Le Hm 293 est quand même beaucoup mieux que Hm14. Y a pas photo. Tu t orientes vers le D 18. Tu as raison, il est biplace, facile à faire. Sage décision. Claude +1 bonne construction (accessoirement ce sera un ...
