The Pobjoy runs

With the picture of the Scion Senior I was reminded of the story, perhaps inaccurate but a good one anyway, of the cheif test pilot flying the 1/2 scale Stirling. He would be trundling along Soutern England ans a fighter would practice attack approaches. He would loop the 1/2 scale Stirling and get on the tail of the fighter.
This would leave a severly disturbed fighter pilot. Can anyone confirm this or shed some light?

Perhaps the (one) redeaming feature of the Stirling was its manoeuverablility. It could out-manoeuvre tha Lanc and Halifax at low level, and unladen, it was said to be able to out-turn a fighter. The M4 was similarly capable – its short, broad-chord wings gave it a good rate of roll.

The M4’s wingspan was 49 ft 6.5in (Spitfire Wing Span 36 ft 10 in) and it was reported by a Capt E Brown serving at A&AEE to be ‘the only 4 engined aircraft he ever looped.’ Other quotes were that ‘it was as agile as a fighter’ . Proportionally it looked odd to the Hurricane pilots who interecepted it, thinking it was a full-sized bomber. They were then out-turned. This may be the origin of your story, but I have not read about them being overlooped.
DS

With the picture of the Scion Senior I was reminded of the story, perhaps inaccurate but a good one anyway, of the cheif test pilot flying the 1/2 scale Stirling. He would be trundling along Soutern England ans a fighter would practice attack approaches. He would loop the 1/2 scale Stirling and get on the tail of the fighter.
This would leave a severly disturbed fighter pilot. Can anyone confirm this or shed some light?

For younger members who may not have heard of Scions or even Shorts! :p

work in progress

there is a swift in mind and do you know of the Pobjoy website?
www.pfjw.me.uk/pobjoystart.htm

The character who runs this website is visiting me in OZ at present and he apologizes that it is incomplete.

However the plot is to restore UVC with ACG and have both flying within a sensible time.

Because of my monica you may also know that a Short s16 Scion may well feature in the long term. We have parts for 3 engines and perhaps a little more! OH Joy! OH rapture!!!

That looks wonderfull…I bet the neighbours loved it!

Three more, plus some wood and a sandbag and you’d have the M4 1/2 scale prototype, and that was nearly a Stirling!

DS

Congratulations! The Comper Swift immediately springs to mind. Any plans to attach anything to the engine?

Answered my own question by checking your posts! Best wishes for the future projects,

Don’t tell ‘Blue Max’. He’s got a full set of Comper Swift plans that he keeps looking at wistfully!

:diablo:

This month , after an extended time my Pobjoy engine has ran.

More information to come if requested

Congratulations! The Comper Swift immediately springs to mind. Any plans to attach anything to the engine?

Answered my own question by checking your posts! Best wishes for the future projects,

More information to come if requested

Oh, go on then. 😉

Some of us like Pobjoys, and Pobjoy engined aircraft. Think we ought to get a secret handshake sorted. A geared finger perhaps?