More long-range Spitfires and daylight Bomber Command raids, with added nationalistic abuse (was: #1 Jet of World War II)

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:37:54 -0400, (Peter Stickney)
wrote:


Oh, I dunno. As the Shackleton folks used to say when the RAF was
considering reconstituting the remaing Shack AEW Squadron as a
Canberra outfit, "Eight Screws beats two blow-jobs any time."


Was there serious consideration given to hanging that skyraider radar on a
canberra ?



greg


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Greg Hennessy writes:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:37:54 -0400, (Peter Stickney)
wrote:


Oh, I dunno. As the Shackleton folks used to say when the RAF was
considering reconstituting the remaing Shack AEW Squadron as a
Canberra outfit, "Eight Screws beats two blow-jobs any time."


Was there serious consideration given to hanging that skyraider radar on a
canberra ?

Not really, The APS-20 would require a bit more space for operators,
displays, plotting boards and the like than the Cranberry could
provide.

The quote BTW, is from a flight suit shoulder patch from the RAF's AEW
Squadron.
The RAF Intercept Controller that I got the patch from (A Shackleton
crewman doing a technical evaluation visit to Sanders Assoc. back in
the days when IC's were New and Zippy, like, say, 1979, told me that
the reason behin it was that the RAF was considering disbanding the
AEW squadron, and reconstituting it as a Defence Evaluation Squadron,
using ECM equipped Canberras,

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Pete Stickney
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bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:07:15 -0400, (Peter Stickney)
wrote:



Not really, The APS-20 would require a bit more space for operators,
displays, plotting boards and the like than the Cranberry could
provide.

Thought as much.


greg

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