did Blackburn have the capacity to build the Skua/Roc and Botha, as well as the Shark? I have always assumed, perhaps wrongly. that production of the Shark ceased because Blackburn needed to conentrate on the next generation of maritime aircraft. There was no need to continue building the Shark when Fairey were building a very similar alternative.

If only one company was to manufacture a torpedo biplane for naval use, it made sense for Fairey to be that company.

I wonder what tactics would have been used if the Coastal Command acceptance of Navigator as captain of the aircraft had been applied in Fighter Command and the pilot reduced to driver…

When did this apply? Never heard of CC navigators being captains of their aircraft before.

Oh right!! Yea sorry after a little more reading I realised that 75+ Welkins were built. Nice looking Aircraft!!

At the time it was coming off the assembly line, the Welkin was claimed to be the world’s largest single seat fighter. Did any larger pistoned engined, single seat fighters go into production?

The two seater Welkin looked a bit of a dog.

US NAvy undertook anti-submarine patrols with 20 Hudsons from Newfoundland from late in 1941. Newfoundland isn’t too far away if I have the correct location, and the aircraft had to get there in the first place. Could have been a delivery flight mishap.

Having said that, Tangmere has seen far more bent props than I ever will so I’m leaning towards his explanation.

The date could be wrong and the USN grabbed some Hudsons. If it is an RAF example, why does it not have the standard yellow tips?

Paint on the prop tips looks more US Navy to me than RAF.

Dundee University has a sectioned Kestrel. Dunno what mark it is.

Edited to provide link:

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/collections/engineering/3002.htm