two Tempest Mk IIs, powered by the 2,520-hp Bristol Centaurs IV engine. The Tempest Mk III was powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon IIB with the Tempest Mk IV installed with a Rolls-Royce Griffon 61 engine,

The Harrow Mk I was powered by a pair of 850-hp Bristol Pegasus X engines giving the aircraft a top speed of 190 mph. This was quickly followed by the 925-hp Bristol Pegasus XX powered Harrow Mk II. This

the Bristol Bulldog, which had entered service the previous year in May 1929. Powered by the 525-hp Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIS engine on the 25th March 1931, flying from Brooklands and piloted by Hawker

19 Supermarine Spitfire, 6 Bristol Blenheim and 2 Boulton Paul Defiant squadrons. It could also call on Nos. 804 and 808 Naval Air Squadrons, the former equipped with Gloster Sea Gladiators and the latter

began to replace their Bristol Blenheim Mk IVs with the type. Their first sortie with the type saw four raid Cologne, Germany on the 31st May 1942 with all returning back to base. Four months later

29 Hawker Hurricane 19 Supermarine Spitfire 6 Bristol Blenheim 2 Boulton Paul Defiant With a further two squadrons on loan from the Fleet Air Arm: No. 804 Naval Air Squadron – Gloster Sea Gladiator

The Blackburn Roc Mk I was powered by a 890-hp Bristol Pegasus XII engine giving the aircraft a top speed of 223 mph, range of 810 miles with a service ceiling of 18,000 ft. Armament was four 0.303-in

AIRCRAFT PROFILES Bristol Beaufighter Entering service with the Royal Air Force in July 1940, the Beaufighter would serve in a number of roles and form the North Coates Strike Wing. Messerschmitt

would be part of a force of fighters escorting six Bristol Blenheims of No. 114 Squadron when they attacked an ammunition dump at Foret de Guines, France. The Spitfire Mk III was the next in the lineage

On this day the Bristol Beaufort she was on was returning from a sortie over Norway where it had been subject to flak. While trying to return to their home base, the aircraft, badly damaged, ditched into