Britain Between the Wars - Avro Anson.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman[_4_]]

[Andrew Chaplin]

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10,000 airvraft parts flying in loose formation.
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Andrew Chaplin
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[Mitchell Holman[_4_]]

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Small wonder the British were so eager to buy Hudsons.
And Bostons, and Liberators, and Catalinas, and Wildcats.....

[PVK]

Mitchell Holman wrote:

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> Small wonder the British were so eager to buy Hudsons.
> And Bostons, and Liberators, and Catalinas, and Wildcats.....


And Spitfires, Typhoons and Tempests, Halifaxes and Lancasters,
Sunderlands, Mosquitos and Beaufighters...oh hang on, thats not right... ;0)

[Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]]

PVK wrote:
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> Sunderlands, Mosquitos and Beaufighters...oh hang on, thats not
> right... ;0)

It's not? They didn't buy those airplanes? They stole them?

[Peter Twydell[_2_]]

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> Small wonder the British were so eager to buy Hudsons.
>And Bostons, and Liberators, and Catalinas, and Wildcats.....
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You are doing Faithful Annie a grave disservice. She was the RAF's first
aircraft with a retractable u/c (hand-wound, 300? turns). Designed as a
coastal maritime patrol aircraft, armed with bombs and 2 .303s, one for
the pilot and one in a dorsal turret. At least one wartime squadron
added beam and floor guns, and I have seen reports of a 20mm cannon, but
that could be a myth. At least one Anson shot down a 109.

My second flight (just after my first, in a Chipmunk) was in an Anson.
1961 or thereabouts.
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!