HUDSON PICTURES - Lockheed "HUDSONS" which are employed by the Coastal Command us a general reconnaissance/bomber aircraft, have proved themselves the best all-round machines available to the Royal Air Force for these duties. They are very commodious and comfortable, even incorporating a system for regulating the heating and have behaved excellently in combat, having had many successes far out to sea and over the enemy-occupied coast. The aircraft are remarkably manoeuvrable and have put up performances which have astonished even the manufacturers at Burbank, California. Hudsons have carried o
HUDSON PICTURES - Lockheed "HUDSONS" which are employed by the Coastal Command us a general reconnaissance/bomber aircraft, have proved themselves the best all-round machines available to the Royal Air Force for these duties. They are very commodious and comfortable, even incorporating a system for regulating the heating and have behaved excellently in combat, having had many successes far out to sea and over the enemy-occupied coast. The aircraft are remarkably manoeuvrable and have put up performances which have astonished even the manufacturers at Burbank, California. Hudsons have carried out a large percentage of the attacks made by the Royal Air Force against U-boats in the North Sea and the Near Arctic. They have provided safe escort for tens of thousands of tons of merchant shipping, and have proved to be first class precision bombers in hundreds of raids both over Germany and enemy-occupied territory. Although only a few months have elapsed since Coastal Command was fully equipped with Hudsons, a number of squadrons have already approached or exceeded the million miles flying mark. Hudson aircraft can take an extraordinary amount of punishment because of the first class material and workmanship put into their construction. Scores of times they have come back to their bases 400 miles over the sea "just like a mass of holes held together by pieces of fuselage" - in the words of a squadron commander. The Hudson carries a crew of four or five. There is the captain, who is also first pilot, the second pilot who navigates, and wireless operator and gunner. It has two Wright "CYCLONE" 1100 engines, and hardly a case has been reported since the war started of a Hudson being crippled by engine or any other mechanical defect. A Hudson receives its complement of bombs before a raid Royal Air Force
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