airborne forces experimental establishment
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Pre Operation Varsity
Dad spent 1943 at Sherburn-in-Elemet photographing top secret trials of gliders for major landings such as Operation Varsity on this day March 24 1945. The secret trials were not so much about the gliders but how they handled carrying troops, panniers , field guns and even tanks (in...- robinbird
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- 1945 airborne forces airborne forces experimental establishment airmobile allies assault glider british army glider glider infantry great britain transport glider world war ii
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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V2 mystery
Does anyone know the history of this particular captured V2, which I believe was at RAF Beaulieu (Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment) at the end of the war. My late father took the photograph as the AFEE photographer but that is all that I know.- robinbird
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- air ministry airborne forces experimental establishment great britain operation backfire post-world war ii project backfire raf no. 43 group royal air force world war ii
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- Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
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Hafner Rotabuggy (Flying Jeep)
Attached are a pair of photos of a replica of the Hafner Rotabuggy (see http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4022.msg31649.html#msg31649 for period photo) taken recently at the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop. It was a British experiment that took a Willys jeep and gave...- Cy-27
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- airborne forces airborne forces experimental establishment british airborne forces great britain united kingdom world war ii
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- Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects