‘Defending Wales’ by Alan Philips, covers aviation in Wales during both World Wars. Good read, though light on some details, the odd typo occurs (have never heard of an airfield called ‘RAF Carnage’ !!!! :diablo:)
This is hard work … my apologies for putting a comment about an aircraft that flew with a tail down attitude in a thread about aircraft that sit tail down on the ground … perhaps I should have used smilies too … :rolleyes:
I can only think that when it was first designed it had to have two folds to be accommodated below decks on the then current carriers, but by the time it entered service (almost 10 years later!) the newer carriers could house the Wyvern with a single fold?
Were there actually any newer carriers as such? If I remember correctly all the Fleet Carriers were either built or at least laid down in WWII and their design would have predated the Wyvern?
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