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Reid-Sigrist was a company known for making flying instruments. In the 1930's they branched out into providing flight training for the rapidly expanding RAF. They decided to built their own 3-seat training aircraft that could be used to train air-gunners, navigators, and radio operators. And convert pilots to flying twin-engine aircraft.

The Snargasher first flew in late 1938 or early 1939. It was liked by pilots but larger, roomier aircraft like the Airspeed Oxford, Avro Ansom and de Havilland Rapide were better for the training role. Plus training units soon had a surplus of Fairey Battles that'd been withdrawn from the front line. Reid and Sigrist spent the war as a subcontractor for Boulton-Paul and Hawker (company co-founder Fred Sigrist was also a managing director of Hawker).

In 1941, the single R.S.1 was used in an experimental training programme that placed beginner pilots in multi-engine aircraft from their very first flight. This avoided the need for single to multi-engine conversion training and the results were promising, but the approach was never widely adopted.

The Snargasher was scrapped in 1944.

But the traffic volume here is literally insane. I never thought it'd be this bad and at times we feel quite unsafe. Can anybody suggest quiet eastward routes we might take to avoid all this.

PS.... any recommendations for good night-life in Berlin?

The Huáscar had been taken over by rebels seeking to overthrow the Peruvian government. They had been harassing commercial shipping so the British sought to recapture the ship with the authorisation of the Peruvian government

However the British lacked armour-piercing shells. Despite scoring numerous hits, they were unable to significantly damage the Huáscar. Meanwhile the rebels hadn't the numbers to effectively crew the Huáscar's guns, so minimal damage was inflicted on the much faster British ships.

The British fired a torpedo at the Huáscar, but it missed. The rebels escaped under the cover of darkness but surrendered to the Peruvian government two days later.

The Huáscar survives to this day as a museum ship in Chile