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

When function triumphs over form!😲The 1940 Fleet Shadower requirement was for a highly specialized aircraft, intended to follow enemy naval forces over long times and radio back their positions. Both General Aviation and Airspeed built prototypes, but neither entered service.😉

The Dornier Do 23 started out life as a transport/mail-plane in the late 1920s, but it soon became the first medium bomber to equip the new Luftwaffe, in the mid 1930s. Several aircraft were still giving valuable service (as trainers for bomber pilots and crews), well into WW 2!

The 'mighty' Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave, a heavy-lift helicopter that I would have love to have seen (and heard) flying. Designed and built in the 1950s, Westland in the UK even 'borrowed' control systems, rotors and gearbox from it, for their Westminster project, see photo three.

Today's Saturday artwork resembles the mornings we have been having in the UK over past couple of days.
'Winter sun at Lossiemouth' by artist Chris French features the 'grey ladies' of 8 Sqn, the last Avro Shackletons in RAF service, covering UK AEW duties until as late as 1991!

The Short SA.4 Sperrin (named after the Sperrin Mountains) was a British jet bomber design of the early 1950s. It was a conventional design, intended to be used as a 'fall-back' in case any of the more 'radical' V-Bombers failed to enter production. Only two Sperrins were built.

The 'Emergency Fighter', that was never called up.
The Miles M20, a simple (but heavily armed) fighter, designed to supplement RAF Hurricanes and Spitfires in 1940, should Luftwaffe bombing destroy their factories.
Government ingenuity and planning, (😲) meant it was not needed.

Saturday Artwork.
Today, it's a work by artist Chris Golds, entitled 'First Kill' portraying a Blackburn Skua, the first occasion a British aircraft brought down a German aircraft, a Dornier Do 18, in WW 2. This has since been changed, to give an RAF Fairey Battle this accolade!

The worlds first jet flying boat fighter certainly inspired commercial artists of the early 1950s.
Here, an advert, a post card and a comic book centre spread cutaway, all feature the Saunders Roe A1; a type who's role was by-passed by history and technology in a few short years.

A 1929 article on the 'Royal Airship Works' R-101 airship. After a troubled development, the R-101 embarked on a maiden voyage to India in 1930, only to crash (with great loss of life, including Lord Thomson, the Air Minister who had initiated the programme,) in rural France.

This British Mach 3 interceptor, the Hawker P-1134 could have a spectacular aircraft...if it had been built! 🇬🇧😥
Powered by two Rolls-Royce BP.20 ram-jets and a Rolls-Royce RB.146 re-heated Avon. Built out of stainless steel, but funding was axed in favour of the Bristol 188.