Avro Anson. My Dad was in the RAF during WW2 and always said that this was his favourite plane. I’d love to see one flying
There was one still flying don't know if it still is. I've seen it at Duxford Check out Duxford summer Airshow next year they publish the flying participants and up date regularly There is also Flying Legends air display if its still going
True, when you fight against non defended targets… These are the slowest pieces of shit, which make them very easy to shoot down, from an air defence stand point (whether surface based or air to air). Super vulnerable… Weapon of choice during the easy fights we picked against rag heads carrying RPGs on a moped for the past 20 years. Not so sure I would want to fly one one these in Ukraine, for example. Or in the next fight for K-grad…
A bit like the Stuka of WW2 was very effective - until it came up against radar and Spitfires ! Ruskies have been making heavy use of these. They carry a very large payload without stressing the air frame as well as high altitude, long range and fast. From militarywatchmagazine.com
Yup, the Stuka was very big, heavy and vulnerable too, when confronted to fighter aircraft. Good plateform to strafe civilians walking on the roads fleeing the combat zones, with big sirens to terrorize the shit out of them, but not so good in real combat… It’s all about air superiority, really. And for the past 30 years, « we » always had air supremacy (= zero air in front of us). Except in Bosnia and Kosovo. And did we see « mighty » A-10s there? Certainly not until all the Serb Mig-29s and SA-6s were neutralized…
Air superiority has been a key feature of Western war fighting, since WW2. The Russians know this of course, so it is no surprise that they have spent much more resources on combating that threat. Interesting how aerial drones are developing. There are some amazing FPV drone videos - reconnaissance drones - all kinds.
You sure about that airspeed? That reads more like space shuttle atmospheric re-entry type speed… I remember seeing 1000 knots on my INS once. I was flying Mach 1.6 at 50.000 ft with a solid 150 knots tail wind from a jet stream, between continental France and Corsica. Took me about 20 minutes to fly from Marseille to Bastia, that day.
I used to live in an area where Trans-Atlantic flights regularly flew over at altitude. When it was flying, Concorde was a regular sight. One summer evening in the late 90’s I was sat in the garden. It was just becoming dark. I was aware of the sound of a jet passing over at altitude. Scanning the sky I saw the following silhouette (library picture). Something never to be repeated.
