Can anyone ID this u/c cowling part?

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By: Peter - 10th April 2005 at 03:04

Thanks Mate.
Hope she goes to a good home…!

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By: Whitley_Project - 9th April 2005 at 23:14

Sorry buddy – it is earmarked for a trade for Whitley parts 🙂

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By: Peter - 9th April 2005 at 01:03

Need a good home for it Elliot…? :0)

We could always give it a good home in our museum for our halifax display!

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By: Whitley_Project - 8th April 2005 at 23:41

Hi everyone – for anyone who is interested, I had the cowling blasted and sure enough, underneath is a ref number with a 61 prefix indicating halifax III onwards.

Thanks for all the advice.

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By: HP57 - 15th March 2005 at 19:55

Looks very Bristol-ish to me. Beaufighter? Looks like the back of the Beau carb intake fairing.

http://www.vflintham.demon.co.uk/aircraft/beau/beau1c.jpg

I agree, the carburetter intake fairing of a Hercules engine (or big Bristol) installation at least that is what I thought when it was on e-bay recently.

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By: Whitley_Project - 15th March 2005 at 18:47

Flood

Hmmm…. it looks brown in the flesh (at least pretty sure it is) – i think it’s my poor abused camera on its last legs making it look yellow…. Could I suppose be desert cammo….?

Is it brown? It looks like weathered yellow to me, in some shots, but then I realise that colours from a camera are never 100% compatible to colours in the flesh.

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By: Whitley_Project - 15th March 2005 at 17:42

Or even this one…

http://hedgehoghollow.com/buzz/halifax/img/h067.jpg
from this excellent site: http://hedgehoghollow.com/buzz/halifax/trenton1.html

If only I can find a shot of the front.

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By: Flood - 15th March 2005 at 17:42

I got this off ebay as a trade for whitley bits. Anyone have any ideas as to what it’s from? Almost certainly RAF judging by the earth brown paint still on it…?

Thanks in advance

Is it brown? It looks like weathered yellow to me, in some shots, but then I realise that colours from a camera are never 100% compatible to colours in the flesh.

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By: Whitley_Project - 15th March 2005 at 17:24

Sadly not Peter – the surface is very grubby – not easy to make any numbers out at all. it needs a good blasting.

Elliot
are there any stamps or id numbers letters on it?

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By: Whitley_Project - 15th March 2005 at 17:23

Good point webpilot – come to think of it, if it were from the underside it wouldn’t be brown. More likely to be an upper surface?

The attached image came from: http://www.airspacemag.com/asm/mag/supp/JJ01/Halifax.html

Looks very Bristol-ish to me. Beaufighter? Looks like the back of the Beau carb intake fairing.

http://www.vflintham.demon.co.uk/aircraft/beau/beau1c.jpg

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By: Peter - 15th March 2005 at 14:31

Elliot
are there any stamps or id numbers letters on it?

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By: WebPilot - 15th March 2005 at 14:25

Looks very Bristol-ish to me. Beaufighter? Looks like the back of the Beau carb intake fairing.

http://www.vflintham.demon.co.uk/aircraft/beau/beau1c.jpg