March 5, 2013
A long way from the Airfix 1/72 Spitfire IX!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287400/The-lifesize-Spitfire-6-500-EGG-BOXES-Architect-recreates-Battle-Britain-fighter-using-10-000-staples-litres-glue.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287400/The-lifesize-Spitfire-6-500-EGG-BOXES-Architect-recreates-Battle-Britain-fighter-using-10-000-staples-litres-glue.html
My article in the March AIR INTERNATIONAL on the USAF’s B-2, F-22, F-35 Stealth aircraft is now at your newsagents (UK), Barnes & Noble (US).
https://shop.keypublishing.com/issue/View/issue/AI843/air-international-march-2013
Interesting article on Willy Messerchmitt’s post-war automobile building.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/wheelsnews/744869-wheels-classic-cars-the-messerschmitt
The Great Burma Buried Spitfire search escalates to the use of ground-penetrating radar!
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/4173-myanmar-s-spitfire-hunter-turns-to-ground-radar.html
Great Burma Buried Spitfire search to continue!
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/british-spitfire-hunter-continue-myanmar-quest-18534436
BBC report on IWM Duxford Spitfire restoration :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-21476802
The latest on the Burma Buried Spitfire Expedition — significant because of how it shows the divergence between eye-witness and archival sources in Second World War military aviation.
http://news.sky.com/story/1053172/burma-spitfire-mystery-is-solved
For Valentine’s Day, from the IWM Duxford website:
http://blogs.iwm.org.uk/historic-duxford/2013/02/when-cupids-arrow-strikes/#more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/21329663
The Soviet Union’s female aircrew have suffered from generations of myth-making in different directions. Reina Pennington up at Norwich has been trying to tell the story straight for years.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0013/MQ33804.pdf
Tactical Air Power in the Normandy Campaign:
The Role of 83 Croup
Chriaopher Robert Evans
Combined Honours B.A. English and History, Carleton University, 199 1
B. A. Political Science, Carleton University, 1993
Submitted to the Department/Faculty of History
in partial fiilfilment of the requirements for
Master of Arts
Wilfnd Laurier University
Chnstopher Robert Evans 19980