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30-10-2007, 12:55 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Supermarine Seagull - (Walrus) hobart-seagull2.jpg Supermarine Seagull Originally called Seagull V, the Walrus was a biplane amphibian aircraft. The prototype flew for the first time in June 1933. Australia was the first country to order the Seagull V and it entered service with the Royal Australian Air Force in 1935, although it was primarily intended the aircraft would operate from Royal Australian Navy cruisers. The Seagull V entered service with Britain's Fleet Air Arm in 1936, but in British service it was known as the Walrus. To its crews, however, it was widely known as the Shagbat. During the Second World War, it proved a versatile aircraft, despite its ungainly appearance. It carried out its intended role as a ship-launched reconnaissance aircraft, and was also utilised for anti-submarine patrols, air-sea rescue operations, and general liaison duties operating from bases ashore. Walrus served in 15 RAF squadrons based in Europe, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Additional aircraft were acquired by Australia, and retained the name Walrus, during the war. In Australian service the Seagull V/Walrus was operated by 5, 9 and 10 Squadrons and was also deployed aboard HMA Ships Australia, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Perth and Sydney. It was retired from RAAF service in 1947. A total of 771 Seagull V / Walrus aircraft were built. Specifications: Supermarine Walrus Type: Biplane amphibian Entered service: 1935 Crew: 2-4 Wing span: 13.97 m Length: 11.45 m Weight (unladen): 2,223 kg Ceiling: 5,120 m Endurance: Maximum range 965 km Speed: 217 km/h Armament: 2 x .303-in machine-guns up to 227 kg of bombs or delth charges
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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30-10-2007, 02:04 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Here's the RAAFM's Walrus under restoration: http://www.defence.gov.au/RAAF/raafm...ion/walrus.htm And what she looks like now: http://www.defence.gov.au/news/raafn...09/story04.htm
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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30-10-2007, 09:14 AM
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__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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30-10-2007, 09:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | A story here towards the end of the Pacific war. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a6132854.shtml
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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30-10-2007, 09:44 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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06-11-2007, 12:17 AM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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06-11-2007, 12:20 AM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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06-11-2007, 08:36 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5 | Its interesting that so many survivors are being restored! We might even see one airborne?
__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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06-11-2007, 08:43 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Morse, it is quite likely the former Dick Melton one will fly. This was the intention when DM had her and it would appear the new (ish) owners have the same plan. Will most likely be the only one we see fly though.
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