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#onthisday in 1943 Supermarine Seafires were tasked with protecting the fleet during the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno, known as Operation Avalanche.

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The idea for a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire originated during 1938, but it wouldn't be until November the following year when a Spitfire was tested to assess whether the type could be used aboard an aircraft carrier. However the need for Spitfires within the Royal Air Force led to the Fleet Air Arm ordering the Fairey Fulmar as their new fighter to compliment the Blackburn Roc and Gloster Sea Gladiator. The Fleet Air Arm were desperate for more modern aircraft as the ones currently in service were no match against the modern Japanese and German aircraft, and after the Spitfire excelled during the Battle of Britain (10th July 1940 - 31st October 1940) the Admiralty would again show interest in the aircraft for use aboard its carriers, and again it would have to wait. However they were able to secure the use of a navalised Hawker Hurricane known as the Sea Hurricane.

Eventually in October 1941 permission for a Sea Spitfire was granted, with the first prototype flying on the 7th January 1942. Three days later on the 10th January 1942 it performed its first deck landing when it touched down on HMS Illustrious (87). Although the modified Spitfire made a number of deck landings, take-offs and catapult launches these were done under favourable conditions, therefore, providing little warning of the problems the Seafire would encounter in operational conditions. Forty eight Spitfire Mk Vs would be converted to Seafire Mk IBs with the first one flying on the 23rd March 1942 and entering service on the 15th June 1942 when No. 807 Naval Air Squadron received the first examples. Powered by the 1,470-hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 45 the top speed of the aircraft was 365 mph with a range of 460 miles and a service ceiling of 36,900 ft. Armament was two 20mm cannons and four 0.303-in machine-guns.

Converting the Spitfire required an arrestor hook, catapult spools and slinging lugs, which were reinforced, on both sides of the fuselage, as well as naval avionics to be added. It would be Air Service Training at Hamble who would convert a number of Spitfires whilst Supermarine modified a number on the production line and brand new Seafires were built by Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft. The major hindrance for the Seafire was the fact that during its development the Spitfire was never considered to be used aboard an aircraft carrier. Two of the major issues with the type were its poor forward view and inability to carry more fuel internally.

The Seafire Mk IIC was built as a naval aircraft from the very start and on the 23rd May 1942 the first production aircraft flew. The Seafire Mk IIC was powered by the 1,645-hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 32 engine which gave the aircraft a top speed of 342 mph, range of 460 miles with a service ceiling of 37,500 ft. Alongside its armament of four 0.303-in machine-guns and two 20mm cannons it could carry one 500lb or two 250lb bombs. The first Seafire Mk IICs entered service during June 1942 with No. 807 Naval Air Squadron and these along with Seafires which No. 801 Naval Air Squadron received in September 1942 would serve aboard HMS Furious (47) until February 1943. During this time they participated in the Allied invasion of North Africa, known as Operation Torch, which began on the 8th November 1942. A total of five Seafire squadrons would be used, destroying a total of nine Vichy France aircraft, five in the air and four on the ground. One Seafire Mk IIC would be sent to the United States for tests at the Naval Airtest Centre.

Seafire operations continued and the following September they were tasked with protecting the fleet during the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno, known as Operation Avalanche on the 9th September 1943. Although forty four were lost, just two were a result of combat. Most had suffered accidents, so many in fact that they had exhausted the spare propellers stock aboard HMS Hunter (D80), the only action available was to cut six inches off each blade of the damaged propeller. This was to become standard practice as it proved an effective remedy. Despite its problems the Seafire would be the fastest fighter afloat during a ten month period from October 1942 until August 1943 when the A6M5 Zero and F6F-3 Hellcat started to enter service.

A modified Seafire Mk IIC provided the basis for the Seafire Mk III prototype which made its maiden flight on the 9th November 1942 with the Fleet Air Arm receiving their first example on the 8th June 1943 and when they entered service on the 27th November 1943 with No. 894 Naval Air Squadron they would be the first Seafires to have manually folding wings with two folds, one before the armament and the other allowing the wingtip to fold downwards, the Seafire Mk III made handling of the aircraft much easier and it could be transported using carrier lifts. Powered by the 1,585-hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 55M engine top speed of the Seafire Mk III was 352 mph, range 465 miles with the lowest service ceiling of all the Seafire variants of 33,800 ft. Armament was identical to the Seafire Mk II.

The Seafire Mk III played a role in Operation Overlord, more commonly known as D-Day, on the 6th June 1944 and was involved in the invasion of Southern France, Operation Dragoon, on the 15th August 1944 and eight Seafire Mk IIIs would take part, on the 15th August 1945, in one of the last dogfights of the Second World War (1939 – 1945) when twelve Japanese aircraft, four Mitsubishi J2M Raidens and eight A6M Zeros came up against Nos. 887 and 894 Naval Air Squadrons who lost a single Seafire but shot down seven Zeros in the battle above Tokyo Bay, Japan.

The 31st August 1943 saw the Air Ministry issue Specification N.4/43 for six Seafires, three prototypes and three pre-production aircraft to be powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, this was a natural change to match the engine change with the Spitfire, which led to the Seafire Mk XV. Fitted with the 1,850-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon VI engine its top speed was 369 mph, range 524 miles with a service ceiling of 34,600 ft. Armament was four 0.303-in machine-guns, two 20mm cannons and either a 500lb bomb or two 250lb bombs. The Seafire Mk XV also had a new 'sting' type arrestor hook. These entered service during May 1945 with No. 802 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Arbroath.

Development of the type continued and the Seafire Mk XVII featured a clear-view bubble canopy and an increase in fuel capacity, however this would not see service during the Second World War. Powered by the 1,950-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon VI engine the aircraft had a top speed of 373 mph, range of 697 miles and a service ceiling of 34,600 ft. Armament was the same as the Seafire Mk XV but instead of the one 500lb bomb or two 250lb bombs, eight 60lb rocket projectiles could be carried.

Next in the Seafire lineage was the 2,035-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 61 engined Seafire Mk 45. This had a top speed of 450 mph, range of 400 miles and a service ceiling of 42,400 ft. Armament was four 20mm cannons with a bomb load of one 500lb and two 250lb bombs. As the Seafire Mk 45 would not equip front line squadrons they lacked the folding wings from previous variants. This was followed by the Seafire Mk 46 which was powered by the 2,300-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 87 engine and had contra-rotating propellers. Its top speed was 435 mph, range 435 miles with a service ceiling of 41,000 ft. Armament consisted of four 20mm cannons and either one 500lb bomb or eight 3-in rocket projectiles.

The Seafire Mk 47 would be the last variant and the first to feature wing folding which was power operated. Flying for the first time on the 25th April 1946. Powered by the 2,350-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 87 engine it had a top speed of 452 mph, range of 405 miles with a service ceiling of 43,100 ft. Armament was four 20mm cannons with either three 500lb bombs or eight 100lb rocket projectiles. No. 804 Naval Air Squadron were the first to be equipped with the aircraft when they took delivery of thirteen during January 1948.

The Seafire F. Mk 47 would see action during the Korean War (1950 – 1953) with No. 800 Naval Air Squadron who operated from HMS Triumph (R16). They were involved in their first action on the 3rd July 1950 and would spend nearly three months on operations until the 25th September 1950, during this period they flew 360 sorties. When the squadron returned to Britain they received the Supermarine Attacker to replace their Seafire F. Mk 47s in 1951, the Seafires front line service was over. The Seafire was eventually retired from Fleet Air Arm service when No. 764 Naval Air Squadron was disbanded on the 23rd November 1954.

The type would also serve with the Royal Canadian Navy and French Aeronavale and a total of 2,580 would be built by the time the last Seafire rolled of the production line, a Seafire Mk 47, on the 28th January 1949.

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Top Speed Range Service Ceiling Armament

Seafire Mk I 365 mph 460 miles 36,900 ft four 0.303-in machine-guns

two 20mm cannons

Seafire Mk II 342 mph 460 miles 37,500 ft four 0.303-in machine-guns

two 20mm cannons

and either one 500lb bomb or

two 250lb bombs

Seafire Mk III 352 mph 465 miles 33,800 ft four 0.303-in machine-guns

two 20mm cannons

and either one 500lb bomb or

two 250lb bombs

Seafire Mk XV 369 mph 524 miles 34,600 ft four 0.303-in machine-guns

two 20mm cannons

and either one 500lb bomb or

two 250lb bombs

Seafire Mk XVII 373 mph 697 miles 34,600 ft four 0.303-in machine-guns

two 20mm cannons

and either one 500lb bomb,

two 250lb bombs

or eight 60lb rocket projectiles

Seafire Mk XVII side profile image

Seafire Mk 45 450 mph 400 miles 42,400 ft four 20mm cannons

one 500lb and two 250lb bombs

Seafire Mk 46 435 mph 435 miles 41,000 ft four 20mm cannons

and either one 500lb bomb or

eight 3-in rocket projectiles

Seafire Mk 47 452 mph 405 miles 43,100 ft four 20mm cannons

and either three 500lb bombs or

eight 100lb rocket projectiles

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ammg-old2 · 1 year ago

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In 1971, the Angling Times sent reporter Dave Nash to document a disaster in Ockendon, Essex. The resulting article described the extinction of a local beauty spot, hundreds of hectares of open space where former gravel pits had become popular fishing lakes. “In less than a decade, what was one of the best fisheries in Essex has been savagely raped and despoiled. Seven hundred tons of household garbage is deposited into the pits every day, along with a similar undisclosed amount of industrial refuse.” The article was accompanied by a striking picture, taken by Nash, showing two men attempting to catch a pike between the scrap cars that lined the bank of Arisdale lake. “If it’s not the water level dropping,” said Jerry Hulbert, the vice-president of the Moor Hall and Belhus Angling Society, “then it’s the rubbish encroaching a few feet every day.”

I came across this story via my father-in-law, Cliff Hatton, who had sent me the newspaper cutting in the post. He would often tell me how the gravel pits, clay pits and sand pits of South Ockendon – initially dug out by the Ham River Grit company to feed the post-second world war hunger for concrete in south-east England – became, in his own excited words, “a nirvana” once they had naturally filled with water. “You dig a hole in Thurrock, leave it a few years and there are fish in it.”

The faintly absurd happenstance of the pits felt to me like a classic Essex story. My birth county had long made the best out of whatever the modern world threw at it, from industrial growth along the Thames to postwar new towns, becoming a shorthand for a loutish brand of greed-is-good Conservatism in the 1980s, and spray-tanned reality stars in the 2010s.

Like many former Londoners looking for green space, Cliff’s family had moved to South Ockendon from a housing estate near Romford in 1964, when Cliff was 11. He and his older brother Barry were keen fishers, and had enrolled in the local angling society. They rejoiced at the abundance of water they could dip their lines into. Cliff was a big fan of local heroes the Small Faces and the music of the burgeoning 1960s mod scene, which was filling Mecca ballrooms with R&B and soul from Forest Gate on the edge of London to Clacton on the coast. But it wasn’t music that kept him up all night. While his peers might have been trying their luck with a potential squeeze in the dark corner of a parquet-floored hall, he was sitting under the moonlight with a rod, eager to catch a handsome carp, perch or bream.

Cliff said one of the pits, known as Hamble Lane, had, like an increasing number of places in south Essex, become an established rubbish tip by the time they started fishing there. But, while fishing at night, he noticed something odd. “There was more activity at the site during the hours of darkness than there was during the hours of light, even though everybody should by law have been gone,” Cliff said. Lorries would come through the gates “nose-to-tail” with sometimes up to 14 in a convoy, all through the night until sunrise. It was only later he realised the extent of the industrial chemicals that were being dumped there under cover of darkness.

One day in 1967, an elderly neighbour had asked Cliff to bring back some sticks from the Hamble Lane dump that he could use in his rose garden. Cliff remembered his errand when he was on the way back from fishing, after the sun had gone down. He climbed on top of a pile of wood to search for sticks, and then jumped off. “I just leapt into the darkness thinking I was going to land on solid ground,” said Cliff. Instead, he found himself up to his waist in slime. After a few moments, his skin began to burn. He had jumped into a caustic slurry, dumped there by a pharmaceutical company based in Dagenham. “That led to me spending a week or so in hospital and many, many weeks after that invalided indoors with great burns to my legs and on my face,” said Cliff.

Cliff’s parents, knowing their place, never sought compensation. Once recovered enough to return to the pits, Cliff found two half-empty drums of granulated cyanide floating in one of them. Another time, he and his brother came across a mountain of glass vials, and suspected that barbiturates had been dumped a few yards from a school fence. “We took some samples to the local police station, and showed them these dangerous drugs and mentioned they were within yards of the school playing field, and the only question we were asked was: ‘What were you doing over there?’ They were more worried about the fact that we were trespassing.”

Thurrock council took no action over the scandalous pollution that burned him and destroyed the habitat he so cherished, leaving Cliff with “a lifelong grudge against authority”. Decades later, he still winced at the thought of the fish floundering about in a couple of feet of muddy, poisoned water as the pits were drained and the whole reserve became a landfill site; those that hadn’t already perished were buried alive under tonnes of industrial waste.

“And of course with them went all the voles and the birdlife, including kingfishers and bitterns.” Each time Cliff told me of his favourite fishing spot, the Ripples, it was as if he could see it before him anew. “It was dubbed the Ripples because when the wind blew on it and the sun shone on it, it was such a beautiful looking place. It sparkled. It was a paradise and it just went under a sea of filth.”

#history #economics #capitalism #environmentalism #ecology #pollution #rubbish #waste #classism #britain #england #essex

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mailboxesetcuk · 1 year ago

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Teamwork makes the dream work

Team away day with MBE Franchise Partner, Peter Lyons

Peter Lyons is one of MBE UK & Ireland’s longest-serving franchise partners, opening his first store in Marylebone High Street, London, over 25 years ago. His five highly successful central-London stores regularly top the company’s total sales chart across the network and he is a dedicated champion of the MBE brand.

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i stg if Ben calls Hannibal a wood elf one more time i WILL have a new otp and it WILL kill me immediately

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Warner Bros. Consumer Products launches Wonder Woman 84 collection with toys/collectibles from LEGO, Funko, Mattel and McFarlane, gear/apparel and other goodies!

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LEGO® brings an action-packed scene from the movie to life in its Wonder Woman vs. The Cheetah set ($39.99), based on Wonder Woman’s first confrontation with her nemesis. The set can be positioned in an action pose with Cheetah leaping out of a cloud, while Wonder Woman’s friend from the previous film, Etta Candy, looks on in the background. More heroine-inspired toys include cars and a premium invisible jet from Hot Wheels.

Pop collectibles from Funko, two versions of incredibly detailed lifelike action figures from McFarlane Toys and huggable plush from Maxx ($11.00 to $19.99). “WW84” toys and collectibles from Bandai, Hot Toys, Kotobukiya, Medicom Toy and Prime 1 Studio will be available in Japan for fans soon.

DC Wonder Woman Virtual Run: In partnership with Rugged Races, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC launched the DC Wonder Woman Virtual Run, allowing participants to run a 5K or 10K whenever and wherever they want, outside or even on a home treadmill. Registered participants receive an exclusive collection of Wonder Woman-branded gear, including a premium quarter-zip pullover, finisher’s medal, terry cloth wristbands, and a reusable tote bag. Runners of all ages and genders can sign up through November 1 for either 5K or 10K distances at https://dcwonderwomanrun.com. Registration is $40.00 per participant.

About “WONDER WOMAN 1984”

Fast forward to the 1980s as Wonder Woman’s next big screen adventure finds her facing two all-new foes: Max Lord and The Cheetah. With director Patty Jenkins back at the helm and Gal Gadot returning in the title role, WONDER WOMAN 1984 is Warner Bros. Pictures’ follow up to the DC Super Hero’s first outing, 2017’s record-breaking WONDER WOMAN. The film also stars Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, Kristen Wiig as The Cheetah, Pedro Pascal as Max Lord, Robin Wright as Antiope, and Connie Nielsen as Hippolyta. Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder, Zack Snyder, Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot and Stephen Jones are producing the film. Rebecca Steel Roven Oakley, Richard Suckle, Marianne Jenkins, Geoff Johns, Walter Hamada, Chantal Nong Vo and Wesley Coller are the executive producers. Patty Jenkins directed from a screenplay she wrote with Geoff Johns & David Callaham, story by Jenkins & Johns, based on characters from DC.

Warner Bros. Pictures Presents an Atlas Entertainment/Stone Quarry Production, a Patty Jenkins Film, WONDER WOMAN 1984. Set to open October 2, 2020 in theaters in 2D and 3D in select theaters and IMAX, it will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. This film is rated PG-13 for sequences of action and violence. https://www.wonderwomanfilm.com/

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Do you think it was a mistake to kill off thrawn at the end of his book trilogy? While it was a logical ending that was set up very well, it also deprived the first era of the Star Wars EU of a overarching villain.

True, but the nice thing about the original Zahn/Thrawn trilogy is that there were no thoughts to it being the start of an ‘era.’ It was just a trilogy of books, and they only served themselves (and the brand, because Lucasfilm did have their own requirements) rather than a wider publishing agenda.

Sure, the publisher had thoughts about it, but they were nebulous (from what I’ve heard and read) and Zahn was free just to tell his story. That 90′s Bantam period was hobbled by everything being so scattershot, but it also gave us things like the Tales Of books, the X-Wing series, and the Han Solo Trilogy. Not to mention Zahn’s return with the Hand of Thrawn duology, which I thought was a great capper and retrospective on the era. The looser organization created highs and lows, but I really liked some of those highs, and the lows were easy to ignore.

Comparatively, I think the New Jedi Order was a disaster. I didn’t like the basic premise of the Vong, so having the same overarching villain for the entire run meant I only had the prequel-era books to delight me at the time. I enjoyed individual NJO novels like Traitor and the Stackpole duology, but I prefer the authors’ other Star Wars works that aren’t tied to NJO silliness. And despite having a consistent cast and overarching villain, I felt like the NJO was just as inconsistent in characterization and feel as the Bantam era. Nom Anor became fun almost by accident, I felt, while the planned character arcs for the protagonists just seemed to go in constant circles.

And the NJO was the best of the Del Ray mega-series! Somehow, reducing the number of authors for the Legacy/Fate of the Jedi series made them worse, but I guess even a good author isn’t going to be able to do much when told that their novel has to end with all the characters in roughly the same place as the beginning because this one isn’t going to be published as a hardcover. Or when the creative team couldn’t figure out what the actual super-plot or villain is until about halfway through the series.

So yeah, I don’t think Thrawn’s death was a mistake. Zahn was only onboard for three books, so I’m fine with him putting his toys back in the box when he was done. I wouldn’t have wanted Kevin J Anderson or Barbara Hambly trying to write Thrawn. (I think their short stories were pretty good, though.) And when Zahn came back, he was forced to use new villains. While I enjoy Zahn writing Thrawn, I think the guy relies on his Blue Alien Sherlock Holmes a little too much. ‘Thrawn: Treason’ was a fun but entirely disposable book, despite being billed as the epic close to the modern Thrawn trilogy.

So Thrawn’s death is less a mistake and more of a happy accident, IMO. XD Multi-author, multi-book shared universes are hard.

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