RPJ
February 7, 2014 at 10:39 am

Beaufighter notebook & test report

I have a notebook kept by my father, CW Paul-Jones, when he built Beaufighters at Weston Super Mare during the war. They are a few pages showing detail of how to fit some specific parts. There is also a single test flight report of aircraft L2 269 from a test pilot named EH Statham dated 23.8.43

I have put a sample drawing on Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/94tal3woubkd6v1/Beaufighter%20Notebook%20CWPJ06.JPG

If anyone is interested in seeing them let me know and I will put the rest on Dropbox.

RPJ

PS Note to board admin: I tried to attach some images to this post but neither method (from PC or URL) worked.

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By: bazv - 7th February 2014 at 22:10

Yes the flight test report etc would be fascinating – rgds baz

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By: Beaufighter VI - 7th February 2014 at 21:33

Me too.

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By: FiltonFlyer - 7th February 2014 at 14:07

I’d also be very interest to see more! I suspect the Beaufighter in question is in fact LZ269, which was a Weston-super-Mare built TF Mk.X.

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By: Gromit - 7th February 2014 at 13:21

Hi RPJ – Welcome to the Forum!

I would like to see more, if you would be so kind.

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By: paulmcmillan - 7th February 2014 at 12:30

EH Statham is Ernest Hugh “Hugh” Statham a Bristol Test Pilot for L2269