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 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: September 19th, 2023, 4:16 am 

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Nord 1400 Noroit The Nord 1400 Noroit was a French military seaplane, first flying in January 1949. https://i.imgur.com/Reqc4Qj.png The first prototype was not fitted with land undercarriage, and was fitted with French Gnome-Rhône 14R engines. Two pre-production aircraft were built as the N.1401, t...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: September 12th, 2023, 2:55 am 

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Advance Of The Arab Legion Wavell’s doubts about uniting Arab opposition were made real almost immediately on his being ordered to send a relief force into Iraq. The first troop movement order of Major-General George Clark, who as the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in Palestine was given the...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: September 8th, 2023, 5:30 am 

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Consolidating The British Position In Basra The 21st Indian Infantry Brigade were not given time to even acclimatise themselves to Iraq, and capitalising on the afternoon lull on the 6th the Anglo-Indian troops commenced offensive action to secure the whole of the Basra area. Iraqi troops had prepa...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: September 7th, 2023, 6:31 am 

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5th August 1941 On the 5th August the 21st Indian Infantry Brigade arrived by ship in Basra, to supplement the 20th Brigade who had already taken control of the docks and RAF Shaibah outside the city. Faced with the massive influx of Empire troops from before hostilities began, the local Iraqi forc...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: August 24th, 2023, 2:19 am 

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Vickers Wellesley in service The Wellesley was the first medium bomber design as the RAF rebuilt prior to WWII, and although planned to be replaced by more moderrn types, was still in Middle Eastern service when Italy declared war. https://i.imgur.com/nWB2uIU.png Vickers first flew the model 246 G....

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: August 22nd, 2023, 12:53 am 

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Vickers Wellesley With the abandoning of the British airship programme in 1930, Barnes Wallis took his experience designing the R.100 and applied this to lightweight stressed structure for aircraft. https://i.imgur.com/SEF721X.png In 1931 a tender was placed for a geneal purpose bombing and torpedo...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: Manchester AU Posted: August 21st, 2023, 4:55 am 

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4th August 1941 The expanded air attacks on the 2nd energised the redeployment of RAF towards the Persian Gulf in general, while the losses to the Wellingtons operating out of RAF Shaibah required urgent reinforcing of the British position in southern Iraq. From the relative quiet of East Africa ad...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: August 18th, 2023, 11:35 am 

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3rd August 1941 The bombing raids on the 2nd had come as surprises to both the British and Iraqis, with neither expecting the other to strike at their bases so readily. The RAF had not expected any sizeable aerial resistance, and now treated the Iraqi bomber threat more seriously, and so prepared t...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: Manchester AU Posted: August 16th, 2023, 2:23 am 

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RAF Habbaniya The first day’s battle had been hard on RAF Habbaniya, and the next was no different. The pilot group were not seasoned veterans, but rather flight instructors and mostly Greek and Arab students, and had flown continuous combat sorties from dawn into the night, under fire even while o...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: July 29th, 2023, 7:09 am 

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Bombing of Bahrain With the British attack on the encircling force at Habbaniya the Italian military advisors were able to activate one of the many plans they had prepared to escalate a potential conflict with Britain: the bombing of British oil installations at Bahrain and at Dhahran in Saudi Arab...
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