I have an earlier version of the ‘Battle Of Britain’ game , called ‘Aviation’. The pieces are similar , but are the same for both sides , and have generic names like ‘Single-seat fighter’ or ‘Bomber’ rather than being specific types.
The board is also different , as it just consists of featureless blue squares apart from two squares for each player representing their ‘aerodrome’. You could win the game by landing one of your troop-carriers on your opponent’s aerodrome. It always amused me that an ‘Airship’ was valued at 5 , and could therefore ‘shoot down’ single fighters and bombers !

The DZ is Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge, commencing 18.00, finishing 18.03.

Thanks Web Pilot.

That takes me back to my spotting days in the late 70’s.

I actually used to get really bored when ‘yet another Trident’ landed.

How times change – I would love to see one flying again now !

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I thought it was “Cargo” as that’s what they carry. F for fighters, B for bombers etc… ? Not quite sure why air tankers ended up with the KC prefix though ? Kerosene Cargo ? :confused:

I think the ‘K’ is for Tanker – it was the first available letter of the word ‘Tanker’ which wasn’t already in use for something else.

The K is used as a prefix to the normal designation , therefore KC-135 is a tanker version of a C-135.

Bader certainly played rugby to a high standard – I believe he was being considered for the England team at the time of his accident.

AWESOME pictures!!!!!

Question though: What series Cessna is that in your second picture? It looks like a turboprop version of the Cessna 404 Titan (the elevator is placed higher than others that I’ve seen). Also, is that a US Air Force logo on the side of the nacelle?

It’s a Cessna 406 Caravan 2. That one belongs to the French Army , so I doubt it’s a USAF logo.

That’s a Super Guppy, I didn’t think they are still flying.

NASA still operate one , based at Ellington Field , Houston. It is used for ferrying large bits of space hardware e.g. for the International Space Station