Clearly the work of official photographers. The purpose may be to do with public relations in that the photographs could be given to the press, but some would likely be for the unit, station, or command archives.

Really, it comes down to the P-80 and Me-262. As the Meteor was to slow and the Kikka we just don’t know with the data available. From there I would have to give the P-80 the advantage! Of course I would have admit my American bias to be far……………:o

For the date in question the Meteor was the fastest fighter in the world. The speeds of the P-80 and the Vampire were identical.

The Shape of the Aeroplane by James Hay Stevens
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K Gann
Adventures with Fate by Harald Penrose
Pilots Summer by Frank Tredrey
Rearsby recalled by Les Leetham
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
And any Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown title.

I may be wrong in what Im about to say, but, Challenger 2 tanks use a 7.62mm GPMG as a spotter so based on that I would say yes its a spotting weapon with the added benefit of extra AA firepower and in my own experience of firing an 84mm Carl Gustav AT weapon which had a single shot sighting “rifle” attached to the side of it. Thats my view, if Im wrong then I look forwards to being corrected and educated in this piece of history. Bex

I think you will find that it was the Chieftain tank that used a burst of three .50″ cal tracer slugs as a ranging device for the 120mm main armament. Nowadays with the improved ranging systems fitted to the big boys and the incredibly flat trajectory of the armour piercing shot of the 120mm, the .50″ cal machine gun is not used in that role. the 7.62 mm coaxially mounted MG is used for soft targets, the roof mounted 7.62mm being for ‘air defence’.

I’m always glad to see Gloster Gladiators, but I’ll throw down the gauntlet to see who can post photos of its predecessor!

Vista sys requirement:

800Mhz CPU
512 Mb RAM
15GB HDD
DirectX 9 graphics card with 64Mb RAM

Add AT LEAST 50% on to of those figures for anything like decent perfomance…..

Thank you. Being a cautious type of chap I always make sure that I’m well over specified as programmes today are not as tightly written as they once were. The iMac clearly well exceeds the first 3 requirements, but I don’t know about Direct X 9. Will look into it. Cheers.

In regard to the two seat Spitfires that are flying could anyone advise please if a specific set of Pilots Notes were compiled and if not which standard set were utilised in lieu of!

Good question! I am the ‘specialist’ for flight manuals and pilots notes for Air-Britain (tries to look important, fails miserably – again!). I have never seen one for a 2 seat Spitfire, but assume (is this wise?) that PNs were originally produced for them when new by the manufacturer. OTOH it could be that they were so similar in handling to the single seat ones that it was felt no notes were required. Did the Irish Air Corps produce their own notes for them? Perhaps somebody from the Emerald Isle can tell us.