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Old 20th March 2008, 13:17
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Re: BOB aircraft armour

As a comparison, a schematic of a Bf 109 in Len Deighton's Battle of Britain shows an 8 mm armour plate fitted to that aircraft.

With reference to fitting armour to the RAF fighters, this book refers to: '...the sheet of armour plate now fitted behind the rear seat of all RAF fighters, after a squadron in France early in the war had tried it against official advice that it would 'spoil the balance of the aircraft'.'

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Don W
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