Photo of the week
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This weekends photo,
A scruffy looking No. 263 Squadron Whirlwind P6969, HE-V in flight over England.
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This weekends extra.
Taken at Valence-Chabeuil Air Base, France of an Avia B.534 aircraft coded H4+PT, with serial number 304 (Werknummer). from Luftlandegeschwader 1 (LLG 1) used as a DFS 230 light transport glider tug, circa summer 1943.
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This midweeks photo.
A nice colour shot of a Boeing XC-97 cockpit.
9 November 1944: Boeing’s senior test pilot, Albert Elliott Merrill, and co-pilot John Bernard Fornasero make the first flight of the Boeing Model 367 prototype, XC-97 43-27470. -
This weekends photo.
BE 12 aircraft were used by 21Sqn in the light bombing role with up to 336ibs of bombs carried under the wings, in this role it was sometimes fitted with rearward facing Lewis gun on the port side of the fuselage for defence of the tail, sighting the weapon was almost impossible and at least one pilot considered it to be 'little more than a joke'.
Losses were so high that in September 1916 Brig-Gen. Hugh Trenchard wrote 'I have come to the conclusion that the BE 12 aeroplane in not a fighting machine in any way" and no more should be sent to France and those already there should be replaced as soon as practical.Some BE 12's remained in service until the armistice, used for home defence against Zeppelins and in the Middle East -
This weekends extra.
And some more detailed shots taken at Guidonia Montecelio airfield near Rome occupied by the 1st group of Schlachtgeschwader 4 (I./SG 4) equipped with Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighters being prepared for a bombing mission.
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This midweeks photo.
At an air base near Stuttgart,French Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX fighter planes, belonging to group I/3 Corsica, are lined up.
