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1932
1932 - 0830.PDF
FLIGHT, AUGUST 19, 1982 No. lOO (Bomber) Squadron By MAJOR F. A. de V. ROBERTSON, V.D. S B|—HE Air Force List is sometimes mildly misleading: If you \2 tl hunt through its pages to find what squadrons are exercised JB_ in the use of the torpedo, you will find (in addition to seven flights of the Fleet Air Arm) only one squadron with the bracketed denomination of Torpedo-Bomber. That title is borne by No. 36 Squadron, which is stationed at Singapore. Its equipment is the " Horsley " (Condor). No. 100, the subject of the present article, is merely described as a Bomber Squadron. Yet it is, as a fact, a squadron which practises with the torpedo as well as with the bomb, and that is why it is stationed at Donibristle, in the county of Fife. Fife, I believe, likes to be called a Kingdom, and Shakespeare has something to say about an official called Thane of Fife. Situated between two estuaries, with the Firth of Tay to the north and the Firth of Forth to the south, it is somewhat isolated from the rest of Scotland, and throughout history has lived a separate existence. The possession of St. Andrews, with its University and its Royal and The top picture shows a flight of three Hawker " Horsleys " (Rolls-Royce " Condor ") of No. 100 (Bomber) Squadron diving to the attack. The middle picture shows one of them dropping its torpedo at H.M.S. Champion, which appears in the bottom picture. (FLIGHT Photos.) 774
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