Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Aircraft spotting, or planespotting, is a hobby consisting of observing and tracking aircraft, which is usually accomplished by photography or videography. Besides monitoring aircraft, planespotting enthusiasts (who are usually called planespotters) also record information regarding airports , air traffic control communications, airline routes ...
The I-SPY books are a series of around forty small volumes that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each, totalling sales of 25 million worldwide by 2010. [1] Each book in the I-Spy series covers a different subject, such as I-SPY Cars, I-SPY on the Pavement, I-SPY Churches, I-SPY on a Train Journey, and so on.
Royal Observer Corps aircraft spotters during World War II. It was the creed of the British War Department and the Air Ministry, at the start of the war, that accurate recognition of high-flying and fast-moving aircraft was not possible. The spare-time volunteers of the Observer Corps disagreed and between 1938 and 1939 they started developing ...
A lifelong and keen aircraft spotter, Derek was a spare time volunteer member of the Royal Observer Corps for nearly fifty years and wrote the history of the Corps in his 1975 book Attack Warning Red : The Royal Observer Corps and the Defence of Britain, 1925 to 1975, later updated in 1992 when the Corps was stood down.
On 10 July, Lieutenant Harold E. Morris, controlling a flight of RAAF F-51 Mustangs, demonstrated the North American T-6 Texan trainer was a more appropriate aircraft for the FACs. On the same day, Bryant and Mitchell, also flying T-6s, directed the F-80s towards the destruction of seventeen enemy tanks near Chonui .
As the threat to Australia on the home front declined, the VAOC's role was expanded to include coast watching, assisting air traffic control, weather reporting and fire spotting. The VAOC was staffed by civilian volunteers and reached an estimated peak strength in 1944 of about 24,000 personnel and 2,656 Observation Posts.
He 113 silhouette used by aircraft spotters in 1940. Data from The Complete Book of Fighters [2] General characteristics. Crew: 1; Length: 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) Wingspan: 9.42 m (30 ft 11 in) Height: 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) tail raised to flying attitude; Wing area: 14.6 m 2 (157 sq ft) Empty weight: 1,810 kg (3,990 lb) Gross weight: 2,500 kg (5,512 lb)
International Missile and Spacecraft Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill. ASIN B000MAEGVC. Love, Terry M. (2001). L-Birds: American Combat Liaison Aircraft of World War II. New Brighton, MN: Flying Books International.