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	Blackburn Skua aircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		The Blackburn Skua was a pre-war low-wing monoplane dive bomber with a distinctive 'greenhouse' cockpit.
		Skuas were the first British aircraft to shoot down a German aircraft in World War Two, and Skuas sank the German cruiser Koenigsberg which was the first large warship sunk by allied forces in the war.
		At dawn on 10 April 1940, 16 Skua aircraft from the 800 and 803 squadrons flying from Hatston in the Orkneys sank the German cruiser Konigsberg in Bergen harbour.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Aircraft/Skua.htm (1037 words)

	Donationware.net - The Designers home
		Blackburn's factories where at the time working to full capacity building the Shark, Skua, 190 of which had been ordered, along with 422 Botha torpedo bombers both 'off the drawing board'.
		Blackburn passed on the detail design and production of the Roc to Boulton Paul who was to supply the turrets for the Roc in any case.
		Both had been equipped with the Blackburn Skua earlier in the year and it was envisaged that the squadrons would operate mixed flights of Rocs and Skuas form the HMS Ark Royal, the Navys newest carrier.
	www.donationware.net /roc (1209 words)

	Blackburn Skua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Blackburn Skua was a naval combat aircraft operated by the British Fleet Air Arm and combined the dual functions of dive-bomber and fighter.
		Skuas are credited as the first British aircraft to shoot down an enemy aircraft in the Second World War: a Dornier Do 18 flying boat was downed over the North Sea on September 26, 1939 by three Skuas flying from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
		Though it fared reasonably well against Axis bombers over Norway and in the Mediterranean, the Skua suffered heavy losses when confronted with modern fighters, particularly the Messerschmitt Bf 109, and they were withdrawn from front-line service in 1941.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackburn_Skua (400 words)

	Blackburn Roc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blackburn Roc was a World War II-era Fleet Air Arm fighter aircraft named for the mythical bird.
		The Roc was a "fighter" development of the Blackburn Skua dive bomber using the same flawed turret fighter concept as the Boulton Paul Defiant in that its sole armament was four 0.303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns in a powered dorsal turret.
		These served alongside Skuas in two land-based squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm between February 1940 and August 1941.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackburn_Roc (294 words)

	Blackburn Skua, Roc - en
		The Skua was a low-wing monoplane with a distinctive 'greenhouse' cockpit.
		The German cruiser Koenigsberg had the dubious honour, on 10 April 1940, to be the first large warship sunk by aircraft --- 16 Skuas.
		Fighter developed from 136 aircrafts Skua, armed with a four-gun turret.
	www.military.cz /british/air/war/fighter/skua/skua_en.htm (184 words)

	Le Blackburn Skua
		Blackburn avait fourni au gouvernement un certain nombre de matériels pendant la première guerre mondiale, notamment les bombardiers bimoteurs Kagaroo, utilisés par le Royal Naval Air Service (on retrouvera au début des années 20 des Kangaroo affectés au transport de passagers).
		Pendant la guerre, Blackburn construit le Skua, pluis le Roc, qui en est dérivé, et enfin le Botha, de sinistre mémoire (les personnels tremblaient à l'idée de devoir voler sur un Botha, et les anciens de la RAF s'en souviennent encore...).
		Le Blackburn Skua était un chasseur/bombardier en piqué biplace qui présentait des perfectionnements encore peu courants : c'était le premier monoplan britannique embarqué, construit entièrement en métal, équipé d'une hélice à pas variable, d'ailes repliables et d'un train d'atterrissage escamotable.
	www.uk-us.org /skua.htm (586 words)

	Blackburn Skua
		The Blackburn Skua was a fighter/dive-bomber used by the British Fleet Air Arm in the early years of World War II.
		Skuas sank the cruiser Königsberg in Bergen harbour on 10th April 1940.
		The spin characteristics of the Skua were bad enough to prompt the fitting of an anti-spin parachute in the tail to aid recovery.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.dell/blackburn_skua.htm (1367 words)

	Blackburn skua - Aircraft of World War II - Warbird Forums
		Also used in every other role including that of the Skua, dive bomber the Stringbag was the most successful fleet air arm plane of the war and its shipping kill tonnage is disputed against that of the SBD as the highest of any aircraft.
		In the last thirties some naval aircraft as Blackburn Skua or Lioret-Nieuport 411 were projected to melt the roles of dive-bomber and fighter, the results were usually fairly good dive bombers and mediocre, too heavy fighters.
		The aim of the original proget was not anyway a true "air superiority fighter", their main opponents would have been in original hypothesis those slow reconeissance flying boats of the class of CANT Z501, SM 55 or Dornier Do-18 which could spot the carrier and her escort ships....
	www.ww2aircraft.net /forum/aircraft-requests/blackburn-skua-4543.html (1168 words)

	Blackburn Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Shark was a carrier-borne torpedo biplane with a buoyant metal-skinned fuselage and a 521.5kW...
		The Skua was the Fleet Air Arm's first fighter/dive-bomber and its first operational monoplane.
		The Roc was a two-seat Fleet fighter/dive-bomber developed from the Skua but with a wider...
	avia.russian.ee /air/england/a_blackburn.html (211 words)

	Middle Path Boats: Skua Open-Water, Fixed-Seat Rowing Boats
		With an effortless glide Skua almost seems to be self-propelled and to track and turn in direct response to your brainwaves.
		Skua was described by winning racer Cliff Punchard as "corky and dry." Skua continued her winning ways in 1994 with first place finishes in several important coastal races including, once again, the Blackburn Challenge, this time with Ben Booth of Mashpee, MA at the oars.
		Skua’s achievements on the racing circuit have inspired a number of imitators; some of them quite impressive in their own ways.
	www.by-the-sea.com /middlepathboats/skua.htm (932 words)

	Blackburn B-24 Skua - carrier-borne dive-bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		To meet the Royal Navy's ugent requirements 190 Skuas were ordered in July 1936 (six months before the prototype flew) and deliveries were completed in March 1940.
		Skuas re-equipped Nos 800 and 803 Squadrons on board the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and No 801 on board HMS Furious.
		After brief operations on board Ark Royal and Argus in the Mediterranean, Skuas were relegated to target-towing in distinctive diagonal fl and yellow stripes.
	avia.russian.ee /air/england/black_skua.html (286 words)

	Warrior Models 1/48 Skua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Blackburn Skua was the result of a requirement framed by the Air Ministry in 1934, a requirement that - while technically imaginative - owed much to contemporary tactical misconceptions about the role of carrier aircraft, calling as it did for a multi-purpose fleet defense fighter and dive bomber.
		Sadly, this was not the fate of the Skua.
		The Skua was created by Blackburn's chief designer, G.E. Petty, and was the first British shipboard aircraft to be built as an all-metal cantilever monoplane, as well as the first British aircraft designed from the outset to be a dive bomber.
	m2reviews.cnsi.net /reviews/allies/gb/cleaverskua.htm (1721 words)

	American Chronicle: WW2 Dive Bomber crew reunited at Fleet Air Arm Museum
		The Blackburn Skua was the first British built dive bomber and the first aircraft to shoot down an enemy aircraft in WW2 (a Dornier flying boat on 25th Sept 1939)
		Blackburn Skuas entered service with the Fleet Air Arm in November 1938, as a successful update and replacement for the Hawker Osprey and Nimrod biplane fighter aircraft, in service at the time.
		Blackburn Skuas were at the forefront of the Norwegian campaign, often operating at the extreme limit of their range and under grueling North Sea conditions.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=15076 (657 words)

	Blackburn Skua, Roc
		Skua byl robustní jednoplošník, střemhlavý bombardér vyzbrojený čtyřmi kulomety v křídlech a jedním pohyblivým v zadním střelišti.
		Skua byl stažen ze služby v roce 1941.
		Blackburn Roc byl stíhací variantou vyvinutou z typu Skua - 136 strojů dostalo střeleckou věž se čtyřmi kulomety, ale tento letoun se ukázal být ještě zranitelnější než jeho předchůdce.
	www.military.cz /british/air/war/fighter/skua/skua.htm (270 words)

	Operation Skua Norway
		The Skua's usually operated from carriers in the North Sea, but often they flew directly from an airfield at Hatston, on the Orkneys.
		The remains of Skua L2940, raised and recovered at Grotli (Norway) in 1974, is preserved the way it was found on the
		In our effort to rebuild a complete Blackburn Skua, teams are searching for Skua-parts on several locations in Norway.
	home.online.no /~oela/index.html (164 words)

	Octopus’ 1/72 Blackburn B.24 Skua
		The Blackburn Skua was the first all-metal monoplane for the Fleet Air Arm and held several unique records.
		The performance of the Skua was inadequate by the time it entered service and it was only through the bravery of their crews that they achieved any success in the battles over Norway.
		Octopus (nee Pavla) kit of the Skua was not entirely unexpected, as they did release a Blackburn Roc kit a few years ago.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2003/june/first-looks/octopus_skua.htm (815 words)

	Blackburn Skua Page Listing
		The Blackburn Skua was a fighter/dive bomber used by the British Fleet Air Arm during World War II.
		The Skua is often described as a slow, cumbersome aircraft that saw little action and was quickly relegated to a training role after the start of the Second World War.
		Renowned aviation author Peter C. Smith's book on the Blackburn Skua was published in late 2006.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.dell/skualisting.htm (270 words)

	The Blackburn Skua
		THE Blackburn Skua, two-seater fighter and dive‑bomber, one of the most widely used weapons of Britain's powerful Fleet Air Arm, is designed to meet the exacting demands of aircraft carrier planes.
		Structurally a low-wing monoplane of all metal construction, the Skua is similar in many respects (except beauty of line) to the Vought Vindicator scout-bomber of our own navy.
		Like the Vindicator, wings fold to conserve deck space yet they are strong enough to take the stress of screaming dive-bombing attacks and sharp pull-outs once the explosives are released.
	www.theplanpage.com /esp/skua.htm (1939 words)

	Blackburn Roc at AllExperts
		The Blackburn Roc was a British World War II-era Fleet Air Arm fighter aircraft designed by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd.
		The Roc was a "fighter" development of the Blackburn Skua dive bomber using the same turret fighter concept as the Boulton Paul Defiant in that its sole armament was four 0.303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns in a powered dorsal turret.
		These served alongside Skuas in two land-based squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm between February 1940 and August 1941.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bl/blackburn_roc.htm (396 words)

	Pavla 1/72 Blackburn Roc Mk.1
		The Blackburn Roc was similar in concept to the Royal Air Force’s Boulton Paul Defiant.
		However unlike its RAF counterpart it was based on the underpowered Blackburn Skua and as such was even more feeble than that aircraft.
		To their credit the Fleet Air Arm realised that the plane would be absolutely useless as a fighter (its maximum speed was not even that of a Gladiator) and it saw very little combat.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/raf/roc-mk1.htm (1728 words)

	Blackburn Roc: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Blackburn Roc was a World War II (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl)
		The Roc was a "fighter" development of the Blackburn Skua[follow this hyperlink for a summary of this topic] dive bomber (A bomber that releases its bombs during a steep dive toward the target)
		These served alongside Skuas in two land-based squadron (An air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/blackburn_roc (1053 words)

	Pacific Coast Models
		The Skua was the first modern British monoplane fighter designed for use off aircraft carriers.
		With the weight increase due to the extra crewman and machine gun plus ammunition, the performance of the Skua suffered against German land based fighters.
		Never the less, the Skua was an important step in the development of successful British carrier fighters.
	www.pacmodels.com /warrior.shtml (908 words)

	New Blackburn Skua - Sim-Outhouse Forums
		In 1942 need to check, but Skuas were sure involved in early 1941 flying from Ark Royal in the frame of "Excess" operation, for which I started building some missions...
		Whilst in the Med Skuas were phased out and replaced with Fairey Fulmars, again, not all at once, I don't think they lasted in the Med as long as 1942, but others served on mainly from land bases.
		I think 40-41 was about the limit on Skuas in the Med, used in small numbers to fill gaps left by shortages of other kites.
	www.sim-outhouse.com /sohforums/showthread.php?t=24672 (1496 words)

	Skua!, Blackburn Skua, Royal Navy Dive-Bomber, Fleet Air Arm
		The Blackburn Skua was designed in the 1930's as a dive-bomber first-and-foremost, and a fighter as only a secondary option but historians ever since have reversed that fact.
		As well as sinking the German cruiser "Konigsberg" at Bergen, Norway; the Skua, although outclassed, took on the Luftwaffe; the Skua scored a hit on the German battle-cruiser "Scharnhorst" in the same conflict and also hit the Vichy-French battleship "Richelieu" at Dakar.
		With many original photographs and a host of eyewitness memoirs culled from former pilots and observers by the Author, this is the another forgotten and maligned aircraft finally give her true place in aeronautical history
	www.dive-bombers.co.uk /Skua!.htm (148 words)

	Blackburn Aircraft
		The products of the Blackburn Aircraft Co are becoming a bit of an obsession and taking up a disproportionate share of the space.
		This new page was prompted by the Blackburn Triplane, which is lovely to look at.
		It is of the highest quality and given its size, elaborate nature, and other items that came with them, I have reason to believe it was probably built by The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd., Brough, East Yorkshire, possibly for a director's son.
	www.snap-dragon.com /blackburn_aircraft.htm (667 words)

	Junkers Ju 87 Stuka
		He had flown numerous allied dive bombers, such as the Blackburn Skua, the Vultee A-35 Vengeance, the Vought SB2U, the Douglas SBD Dauntless and the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver.
		The Blackburn Skua was a British dive bomber and two-seat fighter.
		The Skua eyed a bit more modern than the Ju 87, because it had retractable landing gear, but it was quite ugly.
	users.skynet.be /Emmanuel.Gustin/history/stuka.html (6977 words)

	RCAF.com : The Aircraft : Blackburn SKUA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Blackburn Skua was the first British monoplane specifically designed for dive bombing and the first enemy aircraft claimed by Britain in the Second World War was shot down by the crew of a Skua off the coast of Norway on 25 September 1939.
		By 1941, the design was relegated to target towing and advanced training duties and it had been superceded by the Fairey Fulmar in the combat role.
		Canadian naval pilots attached to the RN saw action in Skuas in both the Norwegian and Mediterranean theatres.
	www.rcaf.com /aircraft/bombers/skua/index.php?name=Skua (271 words)

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