Modelling > 100th Anniversary of the RAAF GB
Inspiration
GTX_Admin:
GTX_Admin:
Buzzbomb:
Got quite a few of these already on the shelf from years gone by.
Still, great to see these profiles again and some new ones
RAAF Buccaneer ?
Something not simply a rebadge job, Australian built Hurricane using the Pratt and Witney Engine, Hawker Willy Willy
Volkodav:
Proposal in December 1940 for Australia to order about £500,000 worth of aircraft from Japan
This appeared in a RAAF historical newsletter and I have been desperately looking for public domain verification of this.
The proposal was made by Sir John Latham https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/latham-sir-john-greig-7104, then Minister for Japan, to the Advisory War Council, with the aim of filling shortages / needs of the RAAF, as well as encouraging Japan to oppose Germany.
"Legislation was passed in 1940 to enable Latham to become Australia's first minister to Japan while still chief justice. He had a long-standing interest in Japan and was better informed about it than almost any of his contemporaries, but he did not reach Tokyo until the close of 1940 after Japan had concluded a pact of mutual assistance with the Axis powers, and his mission was accordingly constricted. He 'spoke with firmness and frankness' to successive Japanese foreign ministers on the 'hope for friendly relations and the resolution to resist attempts at Japanese domination'. In September 1941 he left Japan for consultations in Singapore, but fell ill and was back in Melbourne when the Pacific War began."
This is incredibly interesting to me, I have no doubt the recommendation was made, I just can't currently find a sharable reference to it. What is intriguing, is whether Japan would have been receptive to this had the recommendation been accepted in Australia.
GTX_Admin:
--- Quote from: Volkodav on December 08, 2021, 04:55:12 PM ---Proposal in December 1940 for Australia to order about £500,000 worth of aircraft from Japan
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I know that it's really a captured bird but still. ;)
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