Hi All,
Arado 196-A3. Courtesy of this web site:- http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=338&t=3918&hilit=photo&start=4940
Boats and amphibious reconnaissance aircraft Arado 196 A-3 patrol around the islands in the Aegean Sea.
And this below…
Parade before the governor Hans Frank and William Marshal Letter on the street Victory (Ujazdowskie) in Warsaw to mark the first anniversary of the surrender of Polish forces in the September Campaign. Visible airplanes flying in the key during the parade.
Geoff.
Hi All,
From Surface to Air to Surface again…..:D Courtesy of http://ww2today.com/6-july-1944-typhoon-tank-busters-over-normandy Visit site for full article on Typhoon Tank Busters Over Normandy..:eagerness:
The Battle for Normandy: A rocket fired from a Typhoon of No 181 Squadron, Royal Air Force, on its way towards buildings at Carpiquet airfield. The Canadian 3rd Division took Carpiquet to the west of Caen on 4 July. – See more at: http://ww2today.com/6-july-1944-typhoon-tank-busters-over-normandy#sthash.wNZtwmgr.dpuf
Geoff.
Hi All,
Martin Mars anybody ? More images here http://www.rapp.org/archives/2007/11/martin_mars/
Geoff.
Hi All,
Wow! my last book (Ref post 750) was a long 820 pages in between falling ill and only reading a couple of chapters a night before sleep took over a month to finish…..:D
Right then back to the next one the 2007 edition Biography of the worlds greatest test pilot ever – Wings On My Sleeve by the man himself Capt Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown RIP SIR.
Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realizing he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. He is the only man alive who has flown every major (and most minor) combat aircraft of the Second World War as well as all the early jets. Speaking perfect German, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. He would have been the first man to break the sound barrier, except that the British government cancelled the programme and gave the technology to America. His naval career continues to this day, as he advises on the new aircraft carrier design for the Royal Navy. A living legend among aviation enthusiasts, his amazing life story deserves to be told in full — from crashing in front of Winston Churchill to unmasking a Neo-Nazi ring in the 1950s to his terrifying flights in primitive jets and rockets.
Geoff.
Hi All,
Wow! my last book (Ref post 750) was a long 820 pages in between falling ill and only reading a couple of chapters a night before sleep took over a month to finish…..:D
Right then back to the next one the 2007 edition Biography of the worlds greatest test pilot ever – Wings On My Sleeve by the man himself Capt Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown RIP SIR.
Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realizing he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. He is the only man alive who has flown every major (and most minor) combat aircraft of the Second World War as well as all the early jets. Speaking perfect German, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. He would have been the first man to break the sound barrier, except that the British government cancelled the programme and gave the technology to America. His naval career continues to this day, as he advises on the new aircraft carrier design for the Royal Navy. A living legend among aviation enthusiasts, his amazing life story deserves to be told in full — from crashing in front of Winston Churchill to unmasking a Neo-Nazi ring in the 1950s to his terrifying flights in primitive jets and rockets.
Geoff.
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