Spitfire vs BF109Blog | Spitfire vs BF109 - Part 6

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

March 1, 2013

My AIR INTERNATIONAL article on B-2, F-22, F-35 STEALTH

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

February 23, 2013

Messerschmitt’s post-war automobile building

Interesting article on Willy Messerchmitt’s post-war automobile building.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/wheelsnews/744869-wheels-classic-cars-the-messerschmitt

February 22, 2013

Ground Penetrating Radar Searches for Spitfires!

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

February 19, 2013

Great Burma Buried Spitfire Hunt to Continue!

Great Burma Buried Spitfire search to continue!

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/british-spitfire-hunter-continue-myanmar-quest-18534436

February 18, 2013

BBC report on Spitfire restoration – IWM Duxford

BBC report on IWM Duxford Spitfire restoration :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-21476802

February 17, 2013

Burma Spitfire Search – Archives vs. Eyewitness

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

February 14, 2013

For Valentine’s Day, from the IWM (Duxford) Website

For Valentine’s Day, from the IWM Duxford website:
http://blogs.iwm.org.uk/historic-duxford/2013/02/when-cupids-arrow-strikes/#more

February 9, 2013

BBC on 1941-45 Soviet female combat aircrew

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.

February 8, 2013

Thesis on 83 Group 1944 Available On Web

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