Some more lock down reading
A day late as our lockdown officially ended in South Australia at a minute past midnight this morning but ....
Coastal Patrol by Brian J Turpin - Royal Naval Airship Operations during the Great War 1914 - 1918
SKU NPB9781781555279
ISBN 13 9781781555279
ISBN 10 1781555273
Last edited by Baxter; 07-27-2021 at 16:51.
Oh that sounds interesting!
Sounds like a lot of Hot Air to me!
Thanks for flagging it up, Gary.
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Don't fancy the flight engineers job if he has to visit the engines at night in a stiff breeze
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
At the forward end of the cockpit area there is a rope ladder that goes up into a tunnel and continues to the top of the balloon where there was a gun platform. Now that must have been a lot of fun in the dark too.
Fortunately for those chaps, I don't think Allied airships flew at night.
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
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