see thru df loop

hi guys,

thanks for the input, so i am just looking at the ring inside the clear perspexs, john , what you see is my version of the outside mounting plate, about the only thing visible on all my images, i think it should be narrower and higher.

hi all,

anyone help me with a close up or a drawing of the see thru type df loop, i have loads of images with this type but none are clear enought to see what the inside looks like, i need this for my Dutch Hudson, trust me to pick one with this type of loop!

thanks in advance

The clear loop aerial is just a top and bottom perspex moulding with a join line running all the way round horizontally. The inner varnished copper loops can be rotated through 360 deg. the mounting base does not come up the side of the lower moulding as yours does.

John

The loop itself should be pretty much the same with most aircraft. Naturally, a hudson part number would be beneficial to match it to any surviving DF loops…

For an art print, my personal preference would be to see the loop itself as a circular object as opposed to end on, but thats just me. The perspex bubble is just that, mounted on a support structure of metal.

Unless anyone can correct me….

http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/images/Multimedia/Hudson_Lockheed%20Wright%20Cyclone%20Engines.jpg

http://www.deareverybody.net/images/ray/lockheed_hudson.jpg

Those pics are quite bad for detail, but for a 2D representation, do the support structure with the Loop itself clear of the structure – remember it was designed to be rotated…. Sorry if I’m going on…..

hi lindy’s lad,

i have seen a photo of the Lancaster one, is the inside workings the same, just fitted inside a clear teardrop?

anyway here is my version for now until i get more info.

hi all,

anyone help me with a close up or a drawing of the see thru type df loop, i have loads of images with this type but none are clear enought to see what the inside looks like, i need this for my Dutch Hudson, trust me to pick one with this type of loop!

thanks in advance

If its the loop itself that is the problem, Bruce the moderator around these parts is in posession of a good close up of the one fitted to Lancaster PA474 (If that would help). My external hard drive has died, so I’m sure if you ask him nicely….. (the photo was taken by me, but he now has the only accessable copies!)