Its true.
 

The extra Uranium wasn’t in bomb form, but did apparently originate in Germany. Even more ironically, it was bound for Japan.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/31/us/captured-cargo-captivating-myster…

Chiefy must have been looking the other way quite a bit.

I’ve found WG555, XF700, XF701, WR985 WL741 Wl747, WL747 on our aircraft, as well as a lot of boredom induced other graffiti! Some of it is in pen/indelible pencil, some of it is paint stencils.

Rich

Hi,

I checked over the gunners chair in WR963, but at the moment no inspectors stamps or numbers are visble due to thick layers of paint!

The offset rails give it away though, as shown in the photo attached. It gives room for the mechanism to revolve and slide the seat back for access.

Regards,

Rich

Hi,

The pilots seats in VP293 are the same as in most surviving Shackletons, but as he was the last in service can’t be relied upon as being accurate to T4 specification. There is a slight variance in headrest, harness, and armrests, but the basic seat and frame is the same. The leg extensions are there, but hidden by the castings of the raise/lower mechanism – more so when the seat is at its lowest setting.

Early versions didn’t have the big headrests, as seen in WG511.  But for the fixed armrests, I’d have said pilots or copilots seat, but I’m more inclined to think wireless or radar operator, the others are all pedestal style seats.

Regards,

Rich W

Jeepman –

Its a great idea and was Barry’s original preference, but those that have the parts are reluctant to part with them so it was a non-starter. The Viking being available gave an avenue to achieving a similar result.

Oracal –

G-AGRW is serial number 115, so the 15th built, orginially fitted with fabric skinned wings as was the Wellington. At some point it received metal skins, though it still retains the geodetics unlike the 1B in your cutaway. This, coupled with the wing being the same size and section makes it viable to use in the same way a Hastings wing can be used to create a Halifax. The fuselage will largely be new build, using Z1206 as a pattern and incorporating as much original structure as can be found.

I’ve attached a photo of G-AGRW’s wings structure to help illustrate the above.

How about “No.”?

You’re entitled to an opinion, but G-AGRW has now got a new fate awaiting. If you felt/feel that strongly about its survival, where were you when it was about to get scrapped?

Similarly, if you want to start talking ‘fake nonsense’ and original liveries shall we start with warbirds wearing paint schemes that aren’t from their their own history, or are we going straight for the main course of Spitfires that originate from the Isle of Wight as opposed to Castle Bromwich and that particular merry go round again?

The only part of this project that is nonsense would be allowing it to get scrapped purely because you can’t have what you want happen to it.

If you want a new build Wellington, crack on. Nobody’s stopping you.