Halifax Question

i belive the Halifax had removable panels above where the bombs were held, which could be partially removed for emergency access to the bombs. The Lancasters were fixed.
The Halifax also had bomb cells in the wings.

Here is one on airliners.net

Never knew the Halifax had bomb cells in the wings,thought it was just the Stirling……any photos of these please ?

No, sorry :S.

Been trying to find pictures of them everywhere…

Never knew the Halifax had bomb cells in the wings,thought it was just the Stirling……any photos of these please ?

Chris,

Thanks for the link, interesting stuff.

Thanks for the replies. I wasn’t sure if the story had been embellished or not.

Its The DF loop Controller to go with a Type E2 indicator..only ever seen them fitted in Halibags and early Stirlings…painted black.

BLub-blub-blub

Thanks Paul the was great;he said someone rowed out to them?
I wonder how deep she is? At least we knowwhere abouts another Halifax
is.Side scan anyone even just to see.

A 518 squadron ditching feature:

http://www.oldnautibits.com/features/aerofeature3.shtml

Paul.

Met flights

Hi Resmoroh: Yes the crews were kept busy. The ingress in
to the flt up to 20.000ft to next waypoint and then down
MSL on egress with what you descibed on say 14hr mission.
Then you watch what the N.O.A.A folks fly through i just
might take my chances with the Germans,at least there
i would have a chance of defeating my adversaries.By
the way we’ve recorded rouge waves of 100ft + off the
Grand banks.Did any crews meet their fate on one of
these?The QUEEN MARY almost did full of troops!:eek:

Oshawayflyboy ‘n Hornchurch,
It didn’t matter which donk you had! The low-level legs of met recce sorties were flown at 950 mb (about 1800 ft ASL). Obs were done every 50 nm. At every 4th Ob position the a/c descended to 50 ft (yes! 50 ft) above sea level in order to obtain as accurate a Mean Sea Level Pressure as possible. If the waves were +/- 50 ft (or more!) work it out for yourself!
If one was at 18000 ft over Germany and one donk went on the blink there was time for the Eng to scratch his bum and work out what to do! At 50 ft ASL it only needed one of yr donks (of either breed) to cough slightly and you were in the Oggin!!
I don’t know about the Halifaxes but I do know that some of the later post-war Hastings’, on Met Recce, came back from BISMUTH missions with salt-spray having encrusted windscreens and leading edges!! Read “Even The Birds Were Walking” by Kington and Rackliff, 2000, Tempus, ISBN 075242016X. They went and “did the bizz” in conditions that I would not allow your dog to take you for a walk!!!!!!!!!!
HTH
Resmoroh

halifax

Hi Hornchuch:That does help alot,reading that more than
one Halifax failed to return to base on the west coast of
Scotland on the ‘met’ flights.I’m a bit surprised that
the a/c was left in R.A.F colours,Guess by that time
there wasn’t much of a threat left.The base on the
west coast looks awfully remote any bits been looked
for there.Thanks.

Hi folks:I have a question,did any B3’s serve with coastal
command no8 and no9 groups?
If they did was it u-boat patrol or met flts?

If anyone got a pic

I don’t think I’ve seen one in those colours.Can someone help out?:confused:

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Whilst I’ve not looked ‘hard’ (anorak-style !) & although can’t find much in quick-order (in hastily answering your post), it appears they DID (Mk.III’s)

One such example, is (airframe-serial No.) LV.788 (coded ‘Y3*R’)

Apparently, 8 Group initially chose the Merlin-engined Mk.V’s

However, it’s said that by November ’44, it was discovered that their Merlin-engined Mk.V’s.. “could not maintain height if an engine failed during the 1st FOUR HOURS of a ‘Met’ sortie….” (fuel/weight ratio) & that it was decided that they would re-equip with the Hercules powered variant A.S.A.P

In the meantime (stop-gap) the Mk.V’s performing these ‘met’ tasks had their operational-range subsequently reduced (& more frequent enginer-changes made, for safety)

The Hercules B.III variants replaced the lumbering Mk.V’s as late as March ’45

In the photo’ I have, the B.III (LV.788 ‘Y3*R’ ) is evidently an ‘ex’-Bomber-Command Mk.III (in the standard Dk.Green/Dk.Earth/Black undersides).

That appears to be common, in other Coastal-Halifax pix I’ve (previously) seen

Hasty answer, but I presume that helps ???????????

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Here’s a photo of my dad playing with it! He was a W/Op on 102 Squadron Halifaxes – I took him to Elvington for his 84th birthday and he told me it was the trailing aerial. I could ask him questions about the equipment if you want; he still remember his morse!

Here’s a pic of him with his crew in 1944 – can you tell which is him?

Hi Cees,

I still think the wheel looks to be the DF loop drive rather than the trailing aerial wheel.

Look at the two together in this drawing, the loop drive being the upper one. (Perhaps they are still looking for the latter?)

Whaddya think?

Regards

682al

Funny that such an item is on e-bay at the moment.

Cees

Cees – can you leave it with me…..think there is only back padding, no seat – I imagine the W/OP sat on his chute….

Will be back to you

Ben

Hi Ben,

I have one too. It was reconstructed from an original seat frame but the mounting had been cut off, but the drawings were available and it is complete now. All I need is any info on the leather upholstering, do you have some pics and general information on that?

Cheers

Cees

Seeing the photo just reminded me thats all – completely forgot that we had it – as there is a dummy sitting on it at the moment – not available for disposal but could photograph and/or measure it for you?

Ben

We have one of the W/OP seats/chairs you know…. 😉

Ben

Care to elaborate on that nudge nudge wink wink??? :rolleyes:
I’m interested as you might have guessed by now.

Cees

We have one of the W/OP seats/chairs you know…. 😉