Articles from February 2009



The Blackburn B-26 Botha

Mike’s Malevolent Machines. #01, The Blackburn B-26 Botha. Of all the many types that entered RAF or Royal Navy service during WWII, I rank the Blackburn Botha and the Blackburn Roc as, arguably, first equals with respect to “horribleness”. I spent hours searching for just one reference where someone had something nice to say about [...]

Mike’s Malevolent Machines.

# 01. February, 2009. (A light-hearted series covering little-known, or almost forgotten (forgettable?), aircraft that had some interesting historic or technical aspect about them, and from which, generally, we may have learned some lessons as to how to do things better….or perhaps how not to do them! From the twisted aeronautical mind of Mike Feeney, [...]