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 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: Manchester AU Posted: June 28th, 2023, 12:27 am 

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Dawn Attack In the predawn darkness of the 1st August, the hastily armed Hawker and Oxford trainers became airborne, and at 5 am began to bomb the massed Iraqis on the plateau. Taken by surprise the Iraqis soon responded with artillery fire on the base. In the low light of dawn, the muzzle flashes ...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: June 27th, 2023, 12:45 am 

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British Preparations For Battle The British position at RAF Habbaniya was perilous at best. Against the massed Iraqi forces were the 390 men of the KORR, 1200 local Levies and 18 armoured cars. The bulk of the British army in Iraq was in Basra, 600 kms to the southeast, but even then the roads arou...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: June 26th, 2023, 4:51 am 

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Iraqi Escalation The arrival of the second British troop convoy was the final straw for Baghdad, and movement orders were sent to Iraqi military units on the afternoon of the 29th. At 3am the British embassy in Baghdad advised RAF Habbaniya that Iraqi troops had left their bases in Baghdad en masse...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: June 23rd, 2023, 4:29 am 

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Armstrong Whitworth A.W.XV Atalanta Having its first flight in June 1932, the A.W.XV was a significant advance in British airliner technology. https://i.imgur.com/jKw5Iqc.png Imperial Airways request was for a four-engined airliner for its African routes, and AW's design was so promising that it wa...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: June 20th, 2023, 7:18 am 

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Operation Sabine After the coup Iraq’s new Prime Minister Rashid Ali reaffirmed to the British ambassador that the new government would continue to honour the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty. However this assurance was not accepted at face value by the Foreign Office, and the ambassador was immediately withdraw...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: June 17th, 2023, 4:42 am 

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Vickers Vildebeest and Vincent in NZ service New Zealand was the only export customer for both the Vildebeest and Vincent. https://i.imgur.com/acmRUq1.png New Zealand received its first Vildebeest Mk.III aircraft as the type 277 in 1935, while several earlier production type 267 Mk.III's were resol...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: June 16th, 2023, 11:14 am 

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Vickers 266 Vincent The Vickers 266 Vincent was the general purpose version of the Vildebeest Mk.II torpedo bomber. https://i.imgur.com/LU8em3E.png Starting in 1934, poduction of new build aircraft, and conversion of Vildebeests, led to a total of 197 Vincents being created. The aircraft was a mini...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: June 15th, 2023, 1:16 pm 

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British Forces In Iraq With the frugal times of the 1920’s Britain sought to police the Empire by air as a cheaper alternative to having large land forces, and so the British presence in Mesopotamia was placed under the control of the RAF. Using the model adopted in the Sudan, the RAF conducted pol...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: May 18th, 2023, 5:53 am 

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Hawker Audax export models The Audax was the army co-operation version of the Hart family, probably Britain's most successful military aircraft of the inter-war years. https://i.imgur.com/ceWMvwf.png The Audax was a minimal change to the basic Hart, with the addition of a hook system to allow retre...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: Manchester AU Posted: May 5th, 2023, 4:12 am 

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Royal Iraqi Air Force The Iraqi air force was founded in early 1931 with British trained Iraqi pilots and equipped with de Havilland DH.60G Gypsy Moths. The RIrAF saw action against Kurdish rebels that same year, and gradually increased strength with more de Havilland types and also Hawker Audax fi...
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