An RAF aircraft that was also in RCAF service until 1964. I saw it do a flypoast and then taxi up to a crowd at an airshow a few years ago; the sound of those four Rolls-Royce Merlins was priceless. One of two left airworthy in the world (the RAF has the other one)
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and the U.S. Army Air Corps was not terribly interested. The plane was something of an also-ran until, at the urging of the British authorities, the air frame was mated with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. It made all the difference--the plane became the preeminent long-range fighter of its time. In the U.S., Bendix built the Merlin engine under license from Rolls-Royce.
Really small on the inside. Ive been inside one a few times. Only thing i havent done yet is a flivht in one. When I get a sapre 800 or so my wife wont kill me over taking my dad up in on of those flights. In mcminnville we we touring one and over the waist guns he told me about some of his Vietnam service.
wherein he'd served throughout the war during which time he met my mother, also serving in the Air Force. They had married civilly and swiftly between sorties in 1943 and mother left the Air Force to bring my older sister into this world in 1944. In 1945 father remained in the Air Force and didn't get home until a little while after VE Day but when he did I was conceived.
I was named after said aeroplane and consequently have a kind of love/hate relationship with it.
Sheesh! All I hear about these days is how we baby boomers are a scourge on society.
My name raised a few giggles when I worked for BAe.
Sorry folks - I couldn't NOT tell you this little factoid.
LOL Be happy he didn't fly the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (also one of my favorite planes of WWII and a tribute to British ingenuity and resourcefulness). Otherwise we'd be calling you "Mossie." :-)