Ok, Here we have three aircraft 🙂 .
No.1. I think we all know what the plane became, but why was it built in the first place, and for who :confused: .
No.2. What did this this aircraft type do first in WW2 :confused: .
No.3. Same again, what did this aircraft type do first in WW2 :confused: .
Ok, fire away Lady’ and Gent’s 😉 .
Cheer’s all 😀 , Tally :dev2: Ho! :dev2: Ho! Phil :diablo: .
By: STORMBIRD262 - 1st May 2005 at 11:02
Well done all, sorry it took so long to get back
Well done everyone, all correct 🙂 .
Yes it seem’s the Lord wanted a fast executive type aircraft, and I think he got a very good deal, don’t you think!. 😮
“Britain’s First” made most other aircraft look so very old suddenly, like the dinosaurs they really were, The left over’s of WW1 technology :rolleyes: .
The shock it caused britain’s RAF and aero industry’s at the time, was a very good thing indeed, for without that sudden wake up/rocket/boot up the backside, thing’s may have been quiet different in 1939 :confused: .
The Skua and the Whitley, good practical(not so good looking) aircraft for their day 😎 .
With the Whitley, in service from before the War, right up till 45, and I think three or four different engine type’s fitted in that time, also seemed quiet liked by their crew’s from what I have read here and there.
The Skua, probably not too bad when first built, and quiet a usefull aircraft for mission’s of different type’s, but I don’t think I would have liked to have come across, say a Me-109, while flying in a Skua or Roc in 1939/40.
Doe’s anyone out there have any good Skua or Roc story’s, not mission’s so much, but from pilot/gunner/obsv , that sort of thing :confused: .
Ok, If anyone would like to add some more about any of the aircraft above, please be my guest 😉 .
Cheer’s all 😀 , Tally :dev2: Ho! :dev2: Ho! Phil :diablo: .
By: Digsworth - 29th April 2005 at 16:53
Stormbird, here is my guess
Dave
No.1. I think we all know what the plane became, but why was it built in the first place, and for who
Blackburn Skua, the first monoplane fighter/dive bomber with retractable landing gear for the Royal Navy.
No.2. What did this this aircraft type do first in WW2 .
26th September 1939 Skua from 803 Squadron from HMS Ark Royal shot down a Do 18.
The first Lufwaffe aircraft destroyed by Britain
No.3. Same again, what did this aircraft type do first in WW2
Skua from 800 Squadron & 803 Squadron flying from Hatston in the Orkneys,
Sank the Germany Light Cruiser KONGSBERG at Bergan Norway.
First major warship to be sunk by aircraft
By: Stuart - 29th April 2005 at 16:41
Was the Blackburn Skua the first British aircraft to shoot down a German aircraft?
Stuart
By: danohagan - 29th April 2005 at 16:40
1, Built for Lord Rothermere and called “Britains first” and presented to the nation. Why? Not a clue.
Been a while since I read “Spirit of Britain First”, but I believe the name was partly patriotic and partly because it was the world’s first all-metal, stressed skin monoplane of that type.
By: pimpernel - 29th April 2005 at 16:36
Beat me to it while posting…!!
1, Built for Lord Rothermere and called “Britains first” and presented to the nation. Why? Not a clue.
2, Blackburn Skua or Roc, early dive bomber?
3, Dropped leaflets over Germany.
BP. 🙂
By: danohagan - 29th April 2005 at 16:22
The Blenheim was built for Lord Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail as far as I can remember. Wasn’t the prototype named “Britain First”?
By: Stuart - 29th April 2005 at 16:18
Wasn’t the Whitley the first aircraft to raid Germany?
Stuart
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