GAR D-Day 70 - Pt.4 - Operation ARGUMENT: A B-17 Flying Fortress Navigator's Story

Elliott Marsh posted: "Lieutenant Carroll 'Ted' Binder was a B-17 Flying Fortress navigator with the 358th Bombardment Squadron of the 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), based at RAF Molesworth.  On 20 February 1944, the inauguration of Operation ARGUMENT's "Big Week", Lt. Binder" New post on GAR D-Day 70 – Pt.4 – Operation ARGUMENT: A B-17 Flying Fortress Navigator’s Story by Elliott Marsh Lieutenant Carroll 'Ted' Binder was a B-17 Flying Fortress navigator with the 358th Bombardment Squadron of the 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), based at RAF Molesworth. On 20 February 1944, the start of Operation ARGUMENT's "Big Week", Lt. Binder's B-17 was one of more than 1,000 bombers tasked with attacking industrial targets in Germany in what was then the largest raid mounted by the US Eighth Air Force. This is the story of Lt. Binder's first operational mission, as written in his personal diary. Read more of this post Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/02/25/d-day-70-pt-4-operation-argument-a-b-17-flying-fortress-navigators-story/

Book coming in June 2014 L'ALOUETTE III sous l'uniforme

L'ALOUETTE III sous l'uniforme

Parution du 27/06/2014
Auteur : Patrice Gaubert & Bernard Palmieri.
Edition : PROFILS AVIONS N°25

Si on demande à l'homme de la rue de citer un avion de ligne, il pensera "Boeing" ou "Airbus" ; pour un avion de chasse, il répondra "Mirage" ou "Rafale"... Mais demandez-lui le nom d'un hélicoptère, et c'est très certainement "Alouette" qui viendra en premier ! Depuis plus d'un demi-siècle, l'Alouette III sillonne les cieux du monde entier. Plus de 1400 appareils sont sortis des chaines françaises, et plus de 600 ont été produits à l'étranger, soit environ 2000 cellules. Un grand nombre de ces machines a connu une carrière civile, mais la majorité a servi sous l'uniforme dans des missions très variées, de la France à l'Australie, de l'Inde au Costa-Rica, et du Danemark à l'Afrique du Sud, que ce soit depuis la terre ferme qu'à partir d'un navire en mer. Aujourd'hui l'Alouette III quitte peu à peu les tarmacs et il était temps de conter par le détail la carrière militaire de cette fabuleuse machine et surtout, l'action des ces hommes et femmes qui l'ont mise en oeuvre, au sol comme en vol, en temps de paix comme en opérations de guerre. Toutes les unités françaises sont visitées, ainsi que les entités d'état (Sécurité civile, CEV). Suivent soixante dix huit utilisateurs étrangers, des plus connus au plus exotiques, qu'ils aient volé sur un unique appareil ou reçu une centaine de machines. Pour tous, français comme étrangers, un profil couleur inédit et de nombreuses photos illustrent un texte précis et documenté. Des récits de personnel navigant, une liste de production, de nombreuses illustrations techniques renforcent encore l'exhaustivité de cette monographie de l'Alouette III sous l'uniforme, tout premier ouvrage d'ampleur sur le sujet.

La date de parution est programmée pour 27 JUIN 2014, les frais de port vous sont offerts jusqu'à cette date ! Offre réservée aux particuliers.
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• Format : A4
• Nombre de pages : 352
• Nombre d'images : 960
• Langue : Français
• Nb profils couleur : 40

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[vintage-and-warbirds] Bringing the Bugatti 100P back to life

Designed by the Belgian born Louis de Monge :-)))

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Bringing the Bugatti 100P back to life: Bid to rebuild incredible 500 mph
WW2 plane that could have won Germany the war
  -- Near completion in 1940, Bugatti was forced to conceal the aircraft
  -- The plane survived the war hidden from the enemy but never flew
  -- Now Scottish engineer John Lawson, 59, is developing a working replica
  -- Original Bugatti 100P would have been fitted with two 450 horsepower
engines and had a wingspan of nearly 27 ft (8.2m)

Bringing the Bugatti 100P back to life: Bid to rebuild incredible 500mph WW2 plane that could have won Germany the war

• Near completion in 1940, Bugatti was forced to conceal the aircraft
• The plane survived the war hidden from the enemy but never flew
• Now Scottish engineer John Lawson, 59, is developing a working replica
• Original Bugatti 100P would have been fitted with two 450 horsepower engines and had a wingspan of nearly 27 ft (8.2m)
  

By Ellie Zolfagharifard
PUBLISHED: 18:41 GMT, 27 February 2014 | UPDATED: 10:30 GMT, 28 February 2014

A landmark but unflown aircraft, dubbed the 'Bugatti Veyron of the skies', is being recreated by a Scottish engineer working with a team in Oklahoma.
The Bugatti 100P was described as one of the most advanced planes of its era and if it had flown, its designers believed it would have reached 500mph.
At the time the air speed record, set by a German Messerschmitt in 1939, was 469mph.
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A British engineer is behind ambitious plans to recreate a landmark but tragic aircraft, the Bugatti 100P Pictured is the original Bugatti 100P which was mothballed in 1940 to conceal it from the Germans

But in 1940, and near completion, Bugatti - the Italian car designer - was forced to conceal the elegant aircraft in the hope it would not be discovered by the German military.


Article and photos here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2569407/Bringing-Bugatti-100P-life-Engineer-plans-recreate-500mph-WW2-plane-never-took-skies.html

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