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  • in reply to: The Original RAF Dams Raid in WWII? #795698
    Dave Homewood
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    Excellent find there Steve, thanks!

    I’m sure Ansons won’t have carried much in the way of destructive power on a dam.

    in reply to: The Original RAF Dams Raid in WWII? #795708
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    As I thought, no-one else seems to have heard of the attack/s on the Hindenburg Dam either.

    in reply to: Piece of Cake – 30 years ago…. #799217
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    Thanks Mark12.

    in reply to: Piece of Cake – 30 years ago…. #799816
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    Was the four bladed prop and six-exhaust-per-side engine on AR213 a postwar modification in the warbirds era? Or was it one of the rear Mk. I’s that got a mid-life upgrade during the war?

    in reply to: Late Production Yakovlev WWII Fighters #822563
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    Oh right, it looks like you’re correct Zak.

    in reply to: Late Production Yakovlev WWII Fighters #822657
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    What about former ZK-YAK which was built for and flew with the Alpine Fighter Collection for years, and then went to Aussie to be impounded, is that on your list? I think it recently was released from its impounding.

    in reply to: Late Production Yakovlev WWII Fighters #823590
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    By the complete lack of any response, I am guessing no-one made a film about the remarkable rejuvenation of the production line of the Yaks then…

    in reply to: DH Mosquito FB.VI PZ474 At Avspecs #826327
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    ErrolC said:

    Some fresh photos from Dave Homewood – engines on!

    http://rnzaf.proboards.com/post/262218/thread

    It should be said that the starboard engine is a blank engine, nit the one intended to fly on the aircraft. It’s there so the guys can fit the cowls that are being built at the moment. The port engine is installed.

    in reply to: Historics From New Zealand, Australia And Japan #829392
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    ZK-ADV is in fact a non-flying replica of the one and only Tui Sport, which was a local design based somewhat on the Lincoln Sport but different.

    in reply to: Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier in the FAA #836739
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    Thanks. I’d not seen either before. I am wondering if that photo of Sir Ralph was from when he made a film about the Fleet Air Arm called The Volunteer, released in 1944, as the chap next to him seems to be a cameraman. That film is watchable online on the BFI site but sadly will not play here in New Zealand.

    in reply to: The P-51 was Welsh.. and other stories. #769282
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    I guess that S/Ldr Addams may well have worked with Arthur Marsden OBE, who had a key role in the purchase of US and Canadian-sourced aircraft for Britain. You can read about him here on my website:
    http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Albert_Marsden.html

    in reply to: 6 Mustang aircraft recoverd from A-Bomb test site Australia #769818
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    Very good documentary. I’d seen something on these Mustangs before but not as detailed as this film. It’s great they filmed everything as it happened.

    in reply to: B-25 Pilot Hugh Findlater #769907
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    The write up is only the teaser Bill, click the link and you can listen to Hugh tell his story in his own words.

    in reply to: B-25 Pilot Hugh Findlater #769921
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    I would have thought with the little info out there on RAF B-25 Mitchells, and also on the RAF Comms units flying around the front lines in Europe, that this episode might have generated some interest here. But I guess not.

    in reply to: Flt. Lt. Hugh Beresford #770987
    Dave Homewood
    Participant

    From the BBC Genome site:

    BBC2 7 September 1980, 20.45hrs (Repeated, BBC1 – 9 November 1980, 15.35hrs and then BBC1 4 August 1983, 15.30hrs)

    Missing

    An Inside Story documentary
    On 7 September 1940 Hurricanes of 257 Squadron took off from Martlesham Heath , Suffolk, to intercept a large wave of enemy bombers over the Thames estuary, heading towards London on what turned out to be the first day of the London Blitz. Among those lost in the battle was Flt-Lt H. R. A. Beresford. No one saw him shot down. He was posted as ‘ missing ‘ until September 1979 when the wreckage of a fighter was found … This documentary pieces together the sad story of Beresford’s last mission, finally concluded 40 years after the Battle of Britain.
    An outstanding programme of the weekend … last night’s haunting, perceptive and eye-opening Inside Story.
    (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)
    The film built impressively into an attack on the ‘ bogus romantic cult’ of the fighter pilot. (SUNDAY TIMES)
    Producer ROGER MILLS Director PETER GORDON

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