Articles from December 2008



Mike’s Mystery Machines. # 06. “The Fleet Shadowers”

(Includes an end-of-year chat to incipient, latent, potential and/or impending G.A.P.s (Geriatric Aviation Persons.) General Aircraft Ltd. GAL.38 and Airspeed AS.39. Two years prior to the outbreak of WWII in Europe, the Admiralty issued Specification S.23/37 which outlined a requirement for a very specialised carrier-borne aircraft. This was at a time when the concept of [...]

Mike’s Mystery Machine(s). # 06. Christmas 2008.

You were amazed, bemused or amused at the Blackburn Roc we examined a few months back. Now prepare yourself for another dazzling result of the Royal Navy’s planning dept. By the way, a British chum recently told me that someone in the UK is writing a book on the Roc in order to explain what [...]

Mike’s Mystery Machine. # 05

Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 (Experimental Night Bombardment – Long-range); popularily known per the media as the “Barling Bomber”. Greetings fellow seekers of aeronautical truth, knowledge and understanding. I spent such a stupendous amount of time mining away into the depths of the internet, that my brain cell is considerably depleted and will take ye merrie festive period [...]