#8 Commonwealth/Night fighterDiscuss Next Group Build Commonwealth/Night fighter in the Group Builds forums; From what I can gather the next group build is for commonwealth or night fighter planes. Well night fighter is ...
From what I can gather the next group build is for commonwealth or night fighter planes. Well night fighter is quite simple but commonwealth is a bit different.
Is it:-
1 An aeroplane operated by a British Commonwealth country
2 An Aeroplane operated in a British commonwealth country
3 An aeroplane built in : Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or Virginia.
From my side I am thinking of a Halifax, Lancaster, Wellington or Hudson operated from an aerodrome near to to me by the RCAF.
From what I can gather the next group build is for commonwealth or night fighter planes. Well night fighter is quite simple but commonwealth is a bit different.
Is it:-
1 An aeroplane operated by a British Commonwealth country
2 An Aeroplane operated in a British commonwealth country
3 An aeroplane built in : Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or Virginia.
From my side I am thinking of a Halifax, Lancaster, Wellington or Hudson operated from an aerodrome near to to me by the RCAF.
Any Ideas
check this out , lots of crew , aircraft, nose art , the whole spectrum
From what I can gather the next group build is for commonwealth or night fighter planes. Well night fighter is quite simple but commonwealth is a bit different.
Is it:-
1 An aeroplane operated by a British Commonwealth country
2 An Aeroplane operated in a British commonwealth country
3 An aeroplane built in : Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or Virginia.
From my side I am thinking of a Halifax, Lancaster, Wellington or Hudson operated from an aerodrome near to to me by the RCAF.
Any Ideas
Terry (Airframes) will provide an outline on what the requirements are closer to the build time with choices and guidelines....although I'm sure he will pop in with a briefing shortly....
Er .... guidelines as in previous GBs I guess. This particular one drew its title from a suggestion by a member or members, so I'm as clued-up as any one else as to the context!
Perhaps a few expanded suggestions from participants, and then I'll throw together the outline?
OK, I'll give it a go, since I was wondering this myself. Following are suggestions only, with no hurt feelings if eliminated, modified, or expanded upon.
1. Commonweath would obviously exclude axis aircraft
2. Time period - Sept 1939 to August 1945.
3. Excludes US and Russian aircraft and pilots.
4. Aircraft built by a commonwealth nation and flown by a commonwealth pilot. So no Poles, French, Czech, etc flying Brit planes.
5. All services may be represented, including training wings (e.g BCATP)
6. Exclude BoB, since overlapping.
That sounds good to me, except I have a concern for #4 (and it might just be nothing more then my ignorance which when it comes to this topic is not exactly lacking).
I know about the Boomerang, Wirrraway, Wacket, and the P-51 by Australia and the PBY by Canada. What others were there? I'm actually excited about this build because this is an area I'm not extremely strong in.
Any model representing aircraft flown by any commonweatlth squadron was my aim of this GB. That could included squadrons operating with the RAF (400 series etc) or local home based units. It doesn't matter what country built the aircraft, as long as it is modelled to represent one flown by a Commonwealth unit. This allows a fairly broad choice, as for example, you could choose to model a SAAF Boston in North Africa, a RNZAF Corsair in the Pacific or a RCAF spitfire over Europe. Obviously home built aircraft also meet the guide lines, eg RAAF Boomerang in New Guinea as do the less glamourous home based trainers/utility aircraft.
My intention was to highlight the contribution made by some of these lesser known and talked about units. HTH
Ok, I'll ask a very dumb question. Is Britian part of the Commonwealth?
WOT...WOT WOT WOT
havnt you heard of the commonwealth games? Its our only chance to stuff the Scots.
More seriously the commonwealth is more of a post war term for countries that were in what is known as the British empire (Dominions Colonies protectorates etc), Ireland didnt formally leave the commonwealth until 1948 around the same time as India became independant but remained within it. Many Irish served in the British armed services and it was part of the "deal" that many Irish had dual nationality if they chose (its complicated). I dont know what the Irish think of being grouped on a world map with only one country Zimbabwe
Last edited by tail end charlie; 10-09-2010 at 09:35 PM.
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