Agreed, but they were slightly different to a 6pdr field gun. I understand from some of the crews that flew them that the effect of firing them was equivalent to the aircraft seeming to stop in mid air for a moment!

the 75mm cannon fitted in the B25 was a development of M3 75mm gun fitted to the Sherman tank, This itself was a development of the famous French WW1 75mm field artillery cannon which was used by the US Army well into WW2 as the M1897 Field gun. The weight of the projectile was 14lbs

The Sun article takes the biscuit….

apart from a Hurricane masquerading as a Spitfire

“Eric put his life on the line day after day battling Messerschmitts in his Spitfire XVI LF RW388 over Arctic Russia”.

“Stoke-on-Trent City Council said on the day of Eric’s visit there was no “proper seat” in the plane, which had been recently coated with paint containing traces of radioactive radium.”

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Jeepman still knitting I see. 😉 Whats it going to be when its finished. 😀

A blanket to wrap up historically significant aircraft:diablo:

A possibility perhaps:

Convoy OS23 left Liverpool for Freetown, Sierra Leone on Tuesday 24th March 1942. I seem to recall reading somewhere that some planes intended for the Middle East were routed through West Africa and then flown onwards.

It was possible to get this far using the Wikipaedia entry for “British Convoy Codes” and the Arnold Hague Ports Database website (searched for convoys leaving Liverpool (assumed Liverpool because of the reference to Crosby) on or around 22nd March 1942 heading in the right general direction). The Arnold Hague Ports database also lists all the ships in convoy OS23 so that narrows the search down a bit…..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_convoy_codes
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/port/index.html?home.php~armain

It’s amazing what you can find on t’internet

I’ll get back to my knitting now

Could it be a convoy number – like PQ17?

Jeepman……….

Amy Johnson flew a GIpsy Moth……….!!!

Planemike

oops -that was inexcusable – although in my defence I was corncentrayting on spelling Hangar/hanger and there/their correctly and getting the apostraphie in the right plaice and forgot about Gipsy/Gypsy

I am intrigued to know what other historically significant aircraft are flown?

By significant I mean associated with a particular feat or record rather than being significant simply because it is a survivor – ie the difference between Amy Johnson’s Gypsy Moth and Peter Vacher’s Hurricane

Jeepman, is that an old original WWII jeep you are rewirring??? I do hope your not planing to drive it :diablo:

It’s like the axe that killed Anne Boleyn – very little of the original now remains. So I feel no guilt in driving it – particularly as there are thousands of others :diablo: