SKUA BOMBERS
NAMED AFTER SEA-GULL | When the news reports say "Skua” lhey mean “Skua.” There are But they are not the same, according to the Christian Science Monitor.The Stukas first broke into the news as the German abbreviation for “Sturzkampfbomb - enflugzeug” —the German dive bombers. The British have recently been successful with dive bombers of their own. The word “Skua” applies only to one type. It is the Blackburn single-motored monoplane, built specially for the fleet air arm for service with aircraft carriers. The Skua was named after a species of the North Atlantic seagull. It is the only British plane in service so far designed specifically for divebombing, though several others are used occasionally for the purpose.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 2
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118SKUA BOMBERS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 2
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