posted 03-10- 01:04 PM               

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Does any have or is working on one of these?
It would be nice for the North Atlantic Campaign...
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posted 03-12- 09:26 PM               

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i read a book about the north atlantic campaign about a month ago..mentioned the Skua a lot too

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posted 03-13- 05:38 AM               

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ahhh the venerable Blackburn Skua..

How to combine a dive bomber and a fighter in one plane....

Actually, you can't and the Skua wasn't a success. It was too slow to ctach bombers in a lot of cases, and had a limited value in fleet defence.

They did have some successes as bombers, but at a high cost. They were replaced when the Fleet Air Arm had something better!

There was also an attempt to turn the Skua into a turret fighter. The Blackburn Roc. It was even slower! The plan was to fly alongside a bomber and 'broadside' it with 4 .303's but the Roc couldn't fly fast enough! They got relegated to training roles pretty fast! The most useful employment for a Roc was as a guard post for FAA installations! Strip them out, park them up, and you have a defence installation......

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posted 03-13- 05:30 PM               

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lol

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