Aeroplane Monthly 1981-12
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E.Ackery - Tales of an Indifferent Naval pilot (2)
The author in a Newhaven 184 ready to go down the slipway. The N on the fin denotes an aircraft from No 242 Squadron, Newhaven.
F.B.A. flying boat 3637 at Calshot. A total of 116 F.B.A. flying boats served with the RNAS as trainers.
This RNAS Killingholme F.B.A. flying boat’s Gnome Monosoupape engine threw two cylinders. The engine has dropped and the propeller has damaged the fuselage.
DAVID OLIVER'S plate shows Leisure Sport's Sopwith Baby on the water at Thorpe Park recently.
Одними из основных отличий Porte Baby были длинные роговые компенсаторы элеронов и сложная система крепления силовой установки, работавшей на один толкающий и два тянущих винта.
The first Porte Baby 9800. The RNAS had eleven Porte Babies patrolling the North Sea from Killingholme and Felixstowe from November 1916.