Aviation Archive Issue 25 - 2016 UK
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WESTLAND WHIRLWIND 25 Left: Armourers loading ammunition drums into the four 20mm nose cannon of the Whirlwind, each carrying 60 ...
26 HEAVY FIGHTERS OF WW2 Above: After retirement in December 1943, all but one of the surviving Whirlwinds were sent to 18 Maint ...
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28 HEAVY FIGHTERS OF WW2 T he Luftwaffe called it ‘der Gabelschwanz Teufel’ or ‘Fork-tailed devil’. The P-38 Lightning was not o ...
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30 HEAVY FIGHTERS OF WW2 promising that the US Army decided to lift the wraps of secrecy and, in what was to prove a foolhardy p ...
LOCKHEED P-38 LIGHTNING 31 Below: Lightning strikes twice! In the foreground is Lockheed P-38J 42-67183 while behind is a blue r ...
32 HEAVY FIGHTERS OF WW2 Above: The seventh-ranking American ace, Charles H. MacDonald of the 475th FG (hands in pockets), in fr ...
LOCKHEED P-38 LIGHTNING 33 Left: An image that encapsulates the Lightning’s greatest virtues; heavy payload, high speed and conc ...
34 HEAVY FIGHTERS OF WW2 Above: Lightnings blast Japanese positions with early use of napalm bombs near the Ipo Dam in the Phili ...
LOCKHEED P-38 LIGHTNING 35 Above: P-38 Lightning, pilot 1Lt Stanley Lau of the famed 27th FS, 1st FG in Foggia, Italy. During hi ...
36 HEAVY FIGHTERS OF WW2 T he aggressive-looking Henschel Hs 129 could be considered the A-10 of its day. The only aircraft of W ...
HENSCHEL Hs 129 37 Henschel Hs 129B-2 Type: Ground attack/anti-tank Crew: One Dimensions: Length: 32ft (9.75m) Wingspan: 46ft 7i ...
38 HEAVY FIGHTERS OF WW2 T he pugnacious Beaufighter was originally conceived as a heavy fighter variant of the Bristol Beaufort ...
BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER 39 armament suite installed. The radar equipment, at the heart of any night fighter, was developed at the sa ...
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