http://airminded.org Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://airminded.org/biographies/p-r-c-groves/#comment-73455 Airminded · From Darfur to London in Melbourne Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:43:18 +0000 http://airminded.org/biographies/p-r-c-groves/#comment-73455 [...] responsible for promoting this idea of the knock-out blow to a wider audience was General P. R. C. Groves, a veteran of both aerial and bureaucratic warfare: the British equivalent of Douhet and Mitchell. [...] [...] responsible for promoting this idea of the knock-out blow to a wider audience was General P. R. C. Groves, a veteran of both aerial and bureaucratic warfare: the British equivalent of Douhet and Mitchell. [...]

]]> http://airminded.org/biographies/p-r-c-groves/#comment-2928 Airminded · The shadow of the airliner Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:51:42 +0000 http://airminded.org/biographies/p-r-c-groves/#comment-2928 [...] The basic idea was that a bomber and an airliner or air transport are fundamentally similar: they are both big, heavy aircraft designed to carry a large payload over a long distance. In fact, early airliners were often just war-surplus bombers; conversely, some bombers had civilian origins (such as the Handley Page Hyderabad, developed from the H-P W.8). Strap on some external bomb racks, fit a bombsight and maybe a machine gun or two to ward off enemy fighters, and you have a useful military machine. P. R. C. Groves was the first to sound the tocsin, in 1922: [...] [...] The basic idea was that a bomber and an airliner or air transport are fundamentally similar: they are both big, heavy aircraft designed to carry a large payload over a long distance. In fact, early airliners were often just war-surplus bombers; conversely, some bombers had civilian origins (such as the Handley Page Hyderabad, developed from the H-P W.8). Strap on some external bomb racks, fit a bombsight and maybe a machine gun or two to ward off enemy fighters, and you have a useful military machine. P. R. C. Groves was the first to sound the tocsin, in 1922: [...]

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