Oh ha ha – don’t forget we’re downunder to you lot 🙂 (No, I must not perpetuate that silly myth, some of them still believe it…)

The Baffin and Vildebbest/Vincent never needed a crutch to swing the bombs past the prop as their hardpoint attachments were under the wings. The Baffins carried six 250lb bombs – three on each wing – as standard bombing set up. I think from memory the V-bombers may have been a similar set up.