Trev Clark's Obscure Aviation History 🚁さんのイラストまとめ

The French Breguet 1050 Alize was a very long-serving anti-submarine aircraft.
This Eagle comic 'cutaway' illustration, dating as far back as 1957, explains how the aircraft will operate off of French Navy aircraft carriers. They were retired in the year 2000!

Saturday's Artwork is by one of the most well known aviation artists, Mr. Michael Turner.
Entitled 'Succour at Hand' it shows an Avro Anson 1 of 278 Sqn and an HSL (High Speed Launch) of the RAF's Maritime Branch, engaged on SAR duties during 1943-44.

Many Happy Returns, Sir!
I've just learnt that today is the 95th Birthday of artist Roy Cross. His artwork (most famously for Airfix) encouraged me and countless others of my generation, to enter the aviation world.
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress waist gunners are often thought of as something only the USAAF operated.
But look at the images here and you will see that the Royal Air Force used them too. The waist positions were manned on all 100 Group night operations, towards the end of WW 2.

Imperial Airways, a title that seems very archaic in the 21st Century. But when it was founded in 1924, Britain controlled a far flung Empire and needed a quick and easy way to get officials and their families to these outposts. The network map shows where their priorities lay.

Saturday Artwork for this week shows a 'Battle of the Biplanes', painted by a British artist Mark Postlethwaite.
The subject is a Fiat CR. 42 'Falco' of the Italian Air Force, which has just claimed a Royal Air Force Gloster Gladiator. The types met in WW 2, over North Africa.

Despite Britain's 'Austerity Budget' years, money was still found for aviation research!
The Avro 706 Ashton was a prototype jet airliner of the 1950s. It flew almost a year after the DH Comet, but it was purely an experimental programme and was never intended for commercial use.

The quest for a 'Flying Submarine' has been almost as long a search as the history of heavier than air flight!
These drawings and proposals date from the 1920s up until the late 1960s. To my knowledge this machine has never been created, perhaps another 100 years might do it?

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Essential reading for young British aviation enthusiasts in the 1950s and 1960s were these Ian Allen ABC handbooks.
I have memories of my local second-hand bookshop selling these for just a few pence. They all included a photos, specifications and 3 view silhouettes of each type.