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8 November 2005, 01:03 AM
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Be9
Anyone know where on the web I could find a picture of this strange looking bird?
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8 November 2005, 03:26 AM
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I don't know where on the web but will this do?
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8 November 2005, 06:09 AM
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Many thanks Breguet, what a bloody awful looking contraption!
 To think we sent blokes to war in a deathtrap like that!? |
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8 November 2005, 10:18 AM
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I seem to recall that the wobbly bit on the front was called the "pulpit" - probably because anyone getting into it said their prayers beforehand!
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8 November 2005, 03:20 PM
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Fortunately, only one was built.
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8 November 2005, 03:25 PM
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Of course this wasn't the only pulpit fighter. You also have the SPAD A2 which the Russian's wound up with (great way to treat your allies!).
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10 November 2005, 05:51 PM
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This goes someway towards explaining how the observer/gunners felt about the beast
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10 November 2005, 10:31 PM
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In "Cross And Cockade International Journal", V21, No.3, 1990, Sir
There is an account of service by Capt. Robin Rowell in No.8 Squadron that includes several paragraphs covering a sortie on a B.E. 9 in winter. He lost the machines he was supposed to be escorting in the clouds of a snow-storm, and fetched up in a French sector. His observer was insensible with cold after the ordeal.
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