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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 0113.PDF
27 January 1956 113 is equipped with Canadair-built North American Sabres of the Mk 4 pattern, powered with the General Electric J47 turbojet. The base at Bruggen (as a Flight representative saw during Exercise Battle Royal) is of NATO pattern and vast in scale. From the perimeter track it is possible to look into Holland, and the base commander explained that it would be a disadvantage for the Sabres to be based up near the front line, for on the climb their forward speed was so great that they would be obliged at least once to turn their backs on the enemy. From Bruggen, on the other hand, it was possible to do a straight climb. Moreover, the Army were not embar- rassed by having to look after the squadrons in the forward areas. On the occasion of the revival of the sharks'-teeth emblem it is appropriate to recall that this appeared in America as well as on "112's" Tomahawks and Kitryhawks. With this same insignia, in fact, together with the miscellany of national markings shown in the picture on the opposite page, the 15,OOOth Curtiss fighter for World War II (a Warhawk) took the air in 1944.
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