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

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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

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Great Burma Buried Spitfire search to continue! http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/british-spitfire-hunter-continue-myanmar-quest-18534436

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BBC report on IWM Duxford Spitfire restoration : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-21476802

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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

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

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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.

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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 […]

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http://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=unsworks_10066&vid=UNSWORKS While a few decades late, Mark Lax’s 2011 dissertation from the University of New South Wales on the RAAF, F-111 and Australian security policy seems most interesting.

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this is from Air Britain’s AB-IX group on Yahoo: Malcolm Fillmore The Rolls Royce Merlin: In one second, the V-12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine would have gone through 60 revolutions, with each of the 48 valves slamming open and closed 30 times. The twenty four spark plugs have fired 720 times. Each piston has travelled a […]

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