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Netko <Someone.not@this.address> wrote in
news:0001HW.CFAE9C480019F39AB04179BF@news-europe.giganews.com:
> On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:24:41 +0100, Syke wrote
> (in article <4W4iv.175099$_h6.97317@fx19.am4>):
>
>> P-39 Airacobra.
>
> Thanks. I was put off the scent becasue I've never heard of the RN
> ever showing interest in the P-39, far less trying it out on a
> carrier.
>
> Then again, it's Eric Brown we're talking about and he seems to have
> tried out just about everything on a carrier.
>
>
P-39 AH574, which was passed to the Royal Navy and used for
experimental work, including the first carrier landing
by a tricycle undercarriage aircraft on 4 April 1945
on HMS Pretoria Castle, scrapped March 1946.
Brown, Captain Eric. Wings on My Sleeve.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. ISBN 0-297-84565-9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH574
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