antarmike Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 First flight of thr Martin Baltimore light bomber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 Four days earlier (10th) the Night Fighter version of the Mosquito also made it's first flight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Four days earlier (10th) the Night Fighter version of the Mosquito also made it's first flight Presumably it was about that time that De Havilland threw teddy out of pram because the RAF slapped a thick coat of matt Night Black paint onto their thoroughbred, thereby knocking a good few knots off its top speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Keeps these coming Mike - I love reading stuff like this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Presumably it was about that time that De Havilland threw teddy out of pram because the RAF slapped a thick coat of matt Night Black paint onto their thoroughbred, thereby knocking a good few knots off its top speed. From a foreword written by my FIL for Francis Mason's Lancaster book, regarding the black paint: "Contrary to popular belief, the night sky is not black - particularly to anyone who has aquired night vision. The black paint was supposed to minimise searchlight illumination but was wholly ineffective in this respect; a coned bomber shone like a silver moth fluttering round a light bulb" He sometimes flew beneath the main bomber force as target marker/master bomber in a Mosquito, so I suspect he was quite correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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