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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:02 am 
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THE fighting spirit of Juan de Bermudez, pioneering sea-hawk and discoverer of the islands which today bear his name, sees action once again with the Brewster Bermuda, latest development of the famous Brewster Dive Bomber. With its combination of high speed, long range, and great striking power, the Brewster Bermuda will give new strength to the far-flung defenses of Great Britain and the democracies.

Brewster Fighters and Dive Bombers

F O R L A S T I N G M A S T E R Y O F T H E A I R


I don't know about that, but certainly Brewster gained prizes for incompetence and graft.

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Interesting that the artist has chosen to depict one prop stopping on take off. Realistic, but perhaps not what Blackburn would've wanted from their advertisement.

The Botha was one of those truly awful aircraft that should have been abandoned long before it was.

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I'll have a look through my 'Aircraft of the fighting powers' & see what others I can find , the ads. of the day were something else !

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Sorry, should have said these were from the Flight digitised archive - the adverts are fun to 'flick' through, and as you say, so many are great for many different reasons!

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A fellow member of the AirCrew Association used to fly Bothas. He had a dismal opinion of it. The minimum crew was 2 even for a short ferry flight as the fuel cocks were several feet behind the pilot and well beyond his reach. He summarised it as being "Gutless, under-powered, charmless and noisy!"


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