FSX/FS2004 – Blackburn Skua

FSX/FS2004 – Blackburn Skua. The Blackburn Skua was a British-built Royal Naval dive bomber & fighter. The first prototype flew in 1937 fitted with a Bristol Mercury radial engine. It first enered service in 1938 – by then all subsequent production of 190 were fitted wth the Bristol Perseus engine. Armament conisted of 4 wing mounted machine guns and 1 rearward facing m/c gun on a flexible mount in the rear cockpit .Provision was made for the fitting of a 500 lb bomb on a carriage swinging forward when required . Instead, up to 8 x 20lb or 4 x 40lb bombs could be carried on under-wing racks. Although reasonably sucessful initially, it soon proved an easy target to later fighters and so were withdrawn from front-line service in 1941. They were then used as advanced trainers and target tugs until struck off in 1945.

By Dave Molyneaux

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