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Connery wrote:Nice pics and video of a really unique aircraft, but isn't "whistling death" what the Japanese called the Corsair?
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Nathan wrote:That Boomerang can sure turn tight too! It'd sure give the P-40 a run for its money.
rwdfresno wrote:That Hudson looks cool with that Boulton Paul turret.
Nathan wrote:I agree. I've always had a soft spot for the Hudson. I love early war aircraft.
Nathan wrote:Now that Lady Lodstar C-60. Is that equivalant to the Hudson bomber? Just the cargo version of it?
Fri May 04, 2007 10:08 pm
Nice pics and video of a really unique aircraft, but isn't "whistling death" what the Japanese called the Corsair?
I agree. I've always had a soft spot for the Hudson. I love early war aircraft. Now that Lady Lodstar C-60. Is that equivalant to the Hudson bomber? Just the cargo version of it?
It's possibly the most under-appreciated W.W.II Allied bomber, with significant records and achievements, yet continually overlooked in favour of later, more 'glamorous' W.W.II aircraft.
RAAF Hudsons fired the first shots and made the first attacks against Japanese aggression in the Pacific war, just a few hours before Pearl Harbor. Can't get earlier than that from a Pacific perspective. An RAF Hudson made the first kill of Britain's air war, shooting down a Dornier Do-18 in 1939 - first in twice over...
Yet today, of the less than a dozen survivors, there are still Hudsons in store or on display outside, weathering, one flyer in the world (in Australia) despite being used by the RAF, RCAF, RNZAF, Dutch NEI, US air forces, civil operators worldwide, Chinese, Japanese, and so on. Used from the Arctic circle to south of New Zealand and right around the globe.