@ Mudpuddle: I get that every morning as it takes my brain 20-30 minutes to wake up. I was thinking about suing The Walking Dead TV show as they've obviously been filming me secretly in the mornings....
But as to the artwork: It's a pair of RAF Boulton Paul Defiant's. This from Wikipedia:
The Boulton Paul Defiant was a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter", without any forward-firing guns, a concept successfully used in the First World War-era Bristol F.2 Fighter and also implemented by the Royal Navy's Blackburn Roc.
In combat, the Defiant was found to be reasonably effective at its intended task of destroying bombers but was vulnerable to the Luftwaffe's more manoeuvrable, single-seat Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. The lack of forward-firing armament proved to be a great weakness in daylight combat and its potential was realised only when it was converted to night fighting.[2] It was supplanted in the night fighter role by the Bristol Beaufighter and de Havilland Mosquito. The Defiant found use in gunnery training, target towing, electronic countermeasures and air-sea rescue. Among RAF pilots it had the nickname "Daffy".
I read fairly recently that the designer of the Spitfire had no idea where the name came from and thought that it was silly. I wonder what it might have been called????
Our 2 new aircraft carriers have particularly silly names I think. Military craft should have names that put the fear of God into them.... Not the name of cruise liners....!
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saint antoine expeury(spelling, i know...): what miracles of grace his books are...
Indeed they are... and thanks for the almost completely random comment [lol]
the vagaries of mentation...
@ Mudpuddle: I get that every morning as it takes my brain 20-30 minutes to wake up. I was thinking about suing The Walking Dead TV show as they've obviously been filming me secretly in the mornings....
But as to the artwork: It's a pair of RAF Boulton Paul Defiant's. This from Wikipedia:
The Boulton Paul Defiant was a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter", without any forward-firing guns, a concept successfully used in the First World War-era Bristol F.2 Fighter and also implemented by the Royal Navy's Blackburn Roc.
In combat, the Defiant was found to be reasonably effective at its intended task of destroying bombers but was vulnerable to the Luftwaffe's more manoeuvrable, single-seat Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. The lack of forward-firing armament proved to be a great weakness in daylight combat and its potential was realised only when it was converted to night fighting.[2] It was supplanted in the night fighter role by the Bristol Beaufighter and de Havilland Mosquito. The Defiant found use in gunnery training, target towing, electronic countermeasures and air-sea rescue. Among RAF pilots it had the nickname "Daffy".
The UK has a happy talent for naming machines -- The Indefatigable, the Defiant, the Spitfire, the Incomparable...
("The Mosquito", not so much. Of course, American Corsairs had some unhappy milk jug nickname during WW2...)
I read fairly recently that the designer of the Spitfire had no idea where the name came from and thought that it was silly. I wonder what it might have been called????
Our 2 new aircraft carriers have particularly silly names I think. Military craft should have names that put the fear of God into them.... Not the name of cruise liners....!
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