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[fat tony]

British Contender
Westland P.12 Wendover A.K.A. Delanne

From the invasion crisis. Its intended role was strafing troops on beaches.

 

[fat tony]

One of the last operational war planes the doomed US forces had in the Phillipines was a Grumman Duck C.O.D.style of a/c. It was cobbled together using parts from a wreck fished out of the shallows & the last damaged but repaiable duck in Bataan. The other heavy hitters that flew the last combat missions were P-40s also assembled from wrecks & spares. In capable hands (Australian for example) it was no pushover forthe opfor.

Canadian Car and Foundry FDB-1

Design and development
In 1938, American and Georgian expatriate designer Michael Gregor/Mikheil Grigorashvili approached Canadian Car & Foundry, at the time, that country's leading manufacturer of rolling stock, which had limited experience building airplanes, but wanted to enter that field. Instead of building its own designs, Can-Car was producing Curtiss, de Havilland, Consolidated, Bristol and Hawker products under license. In 1936, Grumman and Canadian Car & Foundry or "Can-Car" concluded an agreement for production of 50 revised Grumman SF-1 carrier fighters, with 700 hp. Wright R-1820-78 radial power-plants and known as GE-23s or Grumman Exports 23s, that would be put together in Canada (although some were actually assembled in Spain).

In 1938, there were many aviation observers who doubted the supposed merits of the emerging monoplane over the proven performance of reliable biplanes. Most of the major powers' front line fighter units employed biplanes. The Soviet Union, despite having recently developed the Polikarpov I-16 (the first successful production monoplane fighter with retracting gear), still depended heavily on biplanes. Great Britain's RAF and Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe had likewise embraced the monoplane but, respectively, continued to deploy the Gloster Gladiator and the Heinkel He 51 biplane fighters. In Fascist Italy, the series of Fiat CR.32 in operation and the Fiat CR.42 biplane fighters were entering service while the U.S. Navy operated biplane fighters exclusively.

https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/cancelled-gregor-fdb-1-180952402/

 

[R711]

The Draco aircraft was in competition for the new replacement airplane for the RCAF Cadet program as a tow aircraft. But, when the budget was cut, so was it.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Nice colour pics of the Ram in service:

 

[donor]

Of course this is model of Me-109 in Iraqi colors,not real thing.A"what if" if you will.Very cool picture imho.

 

[sail32]

Air War Over Iraq: 1941

Frank Wootton's painting "The Battle of Habbaniya, May 1941" shows Hawker Audaxes and Airspeed Oxfords bombing Iraqi artillery along a high plateau within firing range of the Royal Air Force's No. 4 Service Flying Training School.

http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-air-war-over-iraq.htm

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

They had HE-111s:

...and ME-110s, too:

 

[Tikka223]

Nice colour pics of the Ram in service:

I’ve never heard of these. Looks very Sherman-like.

 

[bogusiii]

I’ve never heard of these. Looks very Sherman-like.

No offence, but you ain't very Canadian. Where do you think the Yanks got the idea for the Sherman???? A Ram tank is as Canadian as poutine.

(eh...ever heard of the Avro Arrow? Or the Ross rifle? Or insulin?)

 

[Rule 303]

Nice colour pics of the Ram in service:

Ohhh...to be a Kangaroo in Normandy! (But will be shortly, thanks Guy Simmonds).

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Or a Mighty Skink!

 

[buzzmagoo]

20mm ??not many built ? Don't see them in Museums .

 

[Grizzly Adams]

20mm ??not many built ? Don't see them in Museums .

Oerlikons ? Just cocking them in that confined space must have been one Hell of a job. Straight blowback with a 20 lb. breech block.

Grizz

 

[t-star]

I was under the impression that they were polstens

 

[RMXC51]

Polstens. They only built 4 Skinks IIRC, and none ever shot at an aircraft. The couple times they were deployed, they were excellent at clearing buildings and flushing out snipers. They used high explosive incendiary tracer ammunition, which made an absolute mess out of anything and everything it came in contact with after it left the barrel.

 

[sidester]

Yes Polstens.
http://www.anti-aircraft.co.uk/polstenquad.html

 

[Rob]

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[Tikka223]

No offence, but you ain't very Canadian. Where do you think the Yanks got the idea for the Sherman???? A Ram tank is as Canadian as poutine.

(eh...ever heard of the Avro Arrow? Or the Ross rifle? Or insulin?)

Avro, yes
Insulin, yes
Ross, yes
Ram, no.

I have read “One Day in August” though! ... since Dieppe was mentioned

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Korea, and a couple of fellows find themselves unwilling guests of the Imperialist Running Dogs.

Lucky for them, they have those cool puffy jackets that stop M1 carbine bullets. Or is that bullshet? Turns out is is indeed bullshet:

 

[woodchopper]

No offence, but you ain't very Canadian. Where do you think the Yanks got the idea for the Sherman???? A Ram tank is as Canadian as poutine.

(eh...ever heard of the Avro Arrow? Or the Ross rifle? Or insulin?)

well actually the Ram was a variant of the US M3 chassis

it did sport a superior gun, 6 pounder QF


But this one was converted to a SP artillery 25 Pounder