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Post by johnoakes on Mar 19, 2014 7:55:26 GMT 1
Wonderful aircraft and a very good video--thanks for that.Saw it being built over in Yorkshire--the same team that built the Sopwith Triplane.
Old Tom Sopwith was so impressed with the quality of their work that he signed the triplane off as a late production model not a copy.A giant of a man as are the guys who continue to make these truly excellent aircraft.
great pity this one was only used in the Middle East its design was years ahead of its contemporaries.
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Post by mb on Mar 19, 2014 21:29:05 GMT 1
What a little beauty.One of my favourite a/c and I have never seen one in the air before.I presume it does not have brakes and I presume it was started facing the crowd( it looks like it) which I would have thought was not wise in case it jumped the chocks. M1Cs were used in UK for training and in the Balkans as wells as the ME.
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Post by johnoakes on Mar 24, 2014 22:39:58 GMT 1
As used in Mespotamia--suppose that includes the Balkans and the ME.--LOL
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Post by viscount on Mar 24, 2014 23:35:04 GMT 1
Mesopotamia is the ancient name given to an area of the Middle East including the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris. These were taken from the Turks by the British Army (incl many Indian troops) in a number of campaigns during WWI. The armistice being signed only weeks before the 11th November 1918 armistice with the Germans. The British mandate became independent Iraq in 1932. I've been reading about the WWI campaigns there recently, while there were a handful of aircraft involved, mostly RNAS rather than RFC, don't recall mention of the Bristol M1c - but that does not mean they did not serve there. However in the early 1920s RAF air power was responsible for putting down an insurrection with little intervention of ground troops.
More on Biblical Mesopotamia and the WWI campaigns there on wikipedia as a first call for information.
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Post by jetjockey on Mar 27, 2014 17:01:48 GMT 1
Mesopotamia is the ancient name given to an area of the Middle East including the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris. These were taken from the Turks by the British Army (incl many Indian troops) in a number of campaigns during WWI. The armistice being signed only weeks before the 11th November 1918 armistice with the Germans. The British mandate became independent Iraq in 1932. I've been reading about the WWI campaigns there recently, while there were a handful of aircraft involved, mostly RNAS rather than RFC, don't recall mention of the Bristol M1c - but that does not mean they did not serve there. However in the early 1920s RAF air power was responsible for putting down an insurrection with little intervention of ground troops. More on Biblical Mesopotamia and the WWI campaigns there on wikipedia as a first call for information. Brian the Bristol M1c was at one time on strength with 14Sqd who were tasked with protecting the Suez Canal against the Turks and there German officers just reading Wings over the Desert a book about W E L Seward who was not over keen on them and according to his words only 125 were built and none went to the Western Front JJ |
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