Anorak mode on: :8

Wasn't that the aircraft LK-A that the Matchbox 1:72 scale model was based on?

Haven't seen that picture in donkeys.

Improve long term memory - drink Chianti with James Boags chasers :ooh:

100% on the money there Blacksheep!
Many of the "aces" quietly acknowledged the superiority of the Hurricane as a gun platform for destroying the bombers.

I think you'll find the big pod was a radar. They sometimes used this as a night fighter with a radar operator in one of the cockpits.

elecEye
 

Careful . . . you'll get loads of paranoids shouting that the 'erks' did most of the work - perhaps they did, but that's what they were there for eh?

Along with most of the BoB 'erks, I shall now put my tin hat on and take cover. . .

Sea Fury and P-47N -- twins separated at birth?


Cavanaugh Flight Museum: Republic P-47N Thunderbolt

Maybe F-8F Bearcat or La-9 instead of the P47.

I always thought the Sea Fury was 'inspired' by the FW190. Good visibility and surprisingly small wings.

@ Torquatus
 

And the Spiteful's wing went on to the Attacker, whose tailwheel undercarriage was a "good thing" for flying off carriers ...