Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
Having recently moved to Bognor Regis, we're lucky enough to get regular mini airshows put on by the Spitfire based at Goodwood. At least once a week, it's going up, down and around, just off the coast.
Registration?Saw a Flying Fortress flying east over Reading yesterday.
Registration?
One of ours or theirs*?
*Confederate Airforce
"Theirs" is now theI am not sure I quite understand. Didn't notice the registration. It wasn't flying very fast. I think it may have been a B17G with the chin turret.
Ours then.The one over Reading yesterday was the Duxford B-17G (Sally B).
I have just been looking in my British Army Handbook 1939 _ 1945 by George Forty . A 40 mm Bofors AA gun had an effective ceiling of 5000 ft and a maximum ceiling of 23,000 ft .Got to say I'm not sure about the Flying Fortress. It had a crew of ten which meant ten guys got shot down with every plane. They were slow and could not actually carry that much of a bomb load. OTOH, because they bombed in daylight, they stood a better chance of hitting something worthwhile. Their tight formations and heavy defensive armament made them dangerous to attack by fighters, but would have no effect against anti-aircraft artillery, but how effective was anti aircraft artillery back then? I don't know; it was not very effective in WW1, but not doubt the technology had improved by WW2. I have read their greatest effect was to bring the German fighters up so they could be shot down by American P51s.
Check on http://www.ads-b.nl/, see where they are flying.The Osprey tilt rotor has been a bit busy . Yesterday I saw it 3 times flying back and forth East to West and back again. They seem to be following the same path that the A400M takes.