| | Uncovering the English Electric Lightning [BAC/EE Lightning] Almost all types of the EE Lightning are uncovered. Spread over 160 pages, two 1 meter long fold out pages. As standard in all Uncovering books all fuselage details and the Mk differences are given. Cockpits pictures are of the F.1A, F.2A, F.3, F.6, F.53 and T.5, undercarriage in detail, all panels opened up, the RR Avon engine, both engine bays without the engines, engine installation, armament and to finish very accurate scale drawings (designed from measurements and all my pictures) and all cockpit diagrams. More |
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| | Airlift Force RAF Transport Command 1948-1967 By Colin Ovens
Consider, for a moment, these three Royal Air Force Command
titles:-
"Royal Air Force Bomber Command"- a name that, for many, may
generate imposing images of Wellingtons, Halifaxs, Stirlings,
Lancasters, Mosquitos, Lincolns, BAC/EE Canberra s, and the V-Bombers;
"Royal Air Force Fighter Command"- a Command title that readily
conjures up exciting images of Hurricanes, Spitfires, Tempests,
Meteors, Vampires, Hunters, and Lightnings;
"Royal Air Force Coastal Command"- a renowned name that may
prompt dramatic over-water images of Sunderlands, Beaufighters,
Mosquitos, Catalinas, Liberators, and Shackletons.
Now, consider the title "Royal Air Force Transport Command"... to
many readers this may prompt images of huge formations of Dakotas,
disgorging paratroops over Normandy, Arnhem, or the Rhine; others
will have a recollection of the Berlin Airlift. On the other hand, many
of us will recall seeing, and ignoring, the occasional Argosy,
Beverley, Bristol Britannia , Hastings, Comet, or, perhaps, a VC-10, in the
static park at a Battle of Britain Open Day, while they aimed their
cameras at the Hunters, Gloster Javelins, Lightnings, V-Bombers, or
Shackletons on show- these were the exciting defenders of these isles;
and those others..? "They're just superannuated airliners", as a
school-friend airily dismissed Transport Command's contribution to a
Battle of Britain Open Day, at RAF Biggin Hill in the mid-1960s,
when we two were teenagers.
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