British Warbirds

[Scott Rose]

I'm looking to expand the coverage of British warbirds in the registry. The more popular types, especially fighters have been covered but I'm looking more for the work horse types, bombers, cargo, utility and such. I don't have much knowledge of these types so I'm looking for a little help. If anybody has a list of survivors of various aircraft or knows where I can find info I would appreciate it. Heck, even a list of the types of transports built would be useful.

In addition, if any of you wish to help expand the British Aviation Resource Center then feel free to help. Even if its just providing the raw data for types not covered.

I think that beyond the Spitfire, Hurricane, Sea Fury, Lancaster crowd the British types are sorely unrepresented. If you know of web sites that deal with these underrepresented types feel free to post a link here.

[TonyA]

Well, for starters during and just after WW2 there were:

Single-engine fighter: Spitfire, Hurricane, Typhoon, Tempest, Sea Fury, Firefly, Fulmar, Defiant, Gladiator

Multi-engine fighter: Mosquito, Hornet, Beaufighter, Whirlwind

Single-engine bomber: Swordfish, Barracuda, Battle

Twin-engine bomber: Mosquito, Albemarle, Blenheim, Beaufort, Manchester, Whitley, Hampden, Hereford, Botha, Wellington, Warwick

Four-engine bomber: Lancaster, Stirling, Halifax

Single-engine transport etc: Tiger Moth, Magister, Master, Martinet, Proctor, Lysander

Multi-engine transport etc: York, Oxford, Anson, Dominie

Observation, etc: Auster (various marks)

Jets: Meteor, Vampire

Flying boats: Sunderland, Walrus, Sea Otter

Unfortunately the survival rate has been very low except for the main players.

It was agreed fairly early during the war that Britain would focus on combat aircraft and the US would supply transports, e.g. Dakotas so there weren't many large troop transports produced

[station357]

Scott,

Try this link for one of my favourites; the Hawker Tempest:

http://user.tninet.se/~ytm843e/tempest.htm

Regards,

Paul