In some photos I have seen recently I noticed that the R1155 receiver was stood on its end next to the T1154 transmitter instead of the normal upright position it occupied in other aircraft. Why was this? Surely they could have made its shelf long enough for it to fit????? I have an R1155 and I know that if I tried using it on its beam ends it wouldn’t be long before the valves loosened and started to fall out of their sockets. With the vibration of operational service they wouldn’t last more than a few minutes!
Jim
By: Arabella-Cox - 15th January 2009 at 11:27
Cheers Cees,
I’ve been through the section when it was at Duxford and know just how cramped it was. As you say the arrangement obviously worked but it just looks so – unfinished, if you know what I mean.I hadn’t realised that it was like that in the Hampden too. The only aircraft I’ve had direct experience of with the R1155 was the Valetta T4 when I used to cadge flights in them at Leeming in 1958. It had quite a neat arrangement behind the cockpit,
Jim
By: Cees Broere - 14th January 2009 at 11:39
Hi Jim,
Well, the width of the fuselage was limited otherwise the narrow passage towards the nose was blocked, which wasn’t very desirable in wartime.
The R1155 indeed stood on its end but so was the Hampden installation.
Over 6.000 Halifaxes were built to prove the the set-up I think.
If you walk through the cockpit of PN323 at Lambeth you can experience
how restricted the passage is.
Cheers
Cees
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January 14, 2009 at 11:34 am