...also have important archives about him. I can be contacted through our web-site at www.royalaeroclubcollection.org Brett Holman Thanks for your comment, Andrew -- for your support of the idea of a new Grahame-White biography but more particularly for your link to the Royal Aero Club Collection, which I must confess to not having heard of before now. I've written a short post highlighting your holdings for others who might be similarly ignorant. la...
...y and Scapa Flow. By the way, since last commenting on this thread, I've visited the National Maritime Museum's Falmouth site, and damn fine it is too. Airminded link: HMS Argus was moored outside it. Aussie link: HMAS Manoora was moored next to it. Brett Holman It already has an airminded link -- as in I've been there and blogged about it! Have they not put the blue plaque up yet? What was Manoora doing there? She was decommissioned in August. Ma...
...of ex-RNZAF aircraft and aircrew. A detail from a painting by Marcus King, dating to 1950-5. A green and pleasant land, with trains. This twisted piece of copper used to be part of a ship called Rainbow Warrior. On 10 July 1985, French agents attached two limpet mines to Rainbow Warrior while it was moored in Auckland harbour and detonated them, sinking the ship and killing one of the crew. The reason why France carried out such an unfriendly act...
...ir fighting. This is because it is now clear that the Luftwaffe wasted its best chance to deliver a 'knock-out blow to the R.A.F.'s southern bases' (1, 6): They had the driest August in 100 years, and September has been the finest for almost as long. Yet the knock-out blow was not delivered. It can now be definitely stated that the German Air Force have lost their chance to knock out the R.A.F. With their numerical superiority, there was a good ch...
...is Piazza Minerva (so called because there was a temple of Minerva on this site in Roman times), with this delightful obelisk (Egyptian, 6th century BC) and pedestal, the Pulcino della Minerva. (And behind can be seen a 14th-century Gothic church, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, with a magnificent restored interior. Of which I was completely oblivious at the time. Sigh.) The obelisk is the smallest in Rome, and the elephant was designed in the mid-17th...
...essure from the military generals. bobj fascinating conversations here ... dating back quite a few years. and now on the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII... we may never know the fate of the third atomic bomb (and may we never know). Brett Holman bobj: Definitely one of the more interesting and informative comment threads on this site! I think you're right that we don't and probably won't ever know where the third bomb would have been dropped;...
...he 'gap' between 1910 and 1914 as well. I'm glad that you seem to like the site - please submit any comments, bug reports or suggestions for improvements via the site as well, so that the project team can capture them and feed them into future developments. Brett Holman Thanks for the response! I definitely do like it: even aside from the fact that, pretty much, any digitised newspaper is better than the offline equivalent, the central part of the...
...underland from a partisan of the S-42 is, well, kettle, pot, black. http://www.webstart.com/jed/house/NC15376/nc15376-full-pics.pdf joe j. ok this is my first venture on to this web site.....so....all this information is going to take a while to digest....but the only thing i can contribute to all of this is....i read some where and maybe it was flight mag. that the reason the comets did'nt use the standard british variable pitch prop. was that th...
During the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, British newspapers regularly published official German statements about the progress of the air war. Those relating to the war over Britain could be checked against both British communiques and, to an extent, personal experience. There were large discrepancies: for example, for 7 September 1940, the Luftwaffe claimed to have lost 26 aircraft compared to 94 lost by the RAF. The British claims were almost...
...logs? Happy to host on battleofbritain.tv and share the html for any other sites that want to share the feed... Just wondering how it's done! Best regards BOB TV Brett Holman That's a great idea, BOB. In fact it's such a good idea I've stolen it and implemented it here (using FeedWordPress) as a test: http://1940.airminded.org/ I've only added the feeds from Spitfire Site and Airminded for the moment, I'll have to ask the owners of the other sites...
