Windsock Datafile 76 - Martinsyde Buzzard (Repost)
Windsock Datafile 76 - Martinsyde Buzzard
Albatros Productions | 1999 | ISBN: 1902207173 | English | 42 Pages | PDF | 22,5 MB
Albatros Productions | 1999 | ISBN: 1902207173 | English | 42 Pages | PDF | 22,5 MB
Had the Great War continued into 1919, the Martinsyde F.4 would have equipped a large number of RAF squadrons and doubtless proved its value in combat; wartime evaluations that pitched it against the latest British, French and German fighters proved the F.4 to be by far the superior machine in most all respects. The Buzzard, as it became known, saw little use in the peacetime RAF either, the standard post-war RAF fighter being the inferior Sopwith Snipe; however several foreign air arms operated the type and examples served the Irish Republic, Latvia, Portugal, Russia, Spain and particularly Finland. Master aviation artist and draftsman Doug Carrick has spent many years researching the Buzzard, making a minute examination of the sole-surviving example currently displayed in a Finnish museum to create a masterly set of scale plans. These are published here in Jack Bruce's latest DATAFILE profiling a classic WWI design of great, yet unrealised, potential.