Hi Stu

You are definately not blocked just been on the site and gone through an upgrade so to please everyone NO Adverts. I have also tried to log onto the site from three different computers and no problem.

Hi Mike…

I was joshing about the barred thing… 😉

Just tried the link you sent and it seems to have worked, I’ve got futher than I have before, now I’m pending approval… 😮

Fingers Crossed…

Stu…

Well, I must be barred, as no matter how many times I’ve tried to register, it keeps saying it can’t load the page… 🙁

Hmm… Let’s try that again
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Will do Mike…

Jerry have you spoken with a Walter McGowan?

Only I found this:

Walter McGowan, yeovil=comcast.net, 07.08.2010
ref my last post. The wing bombs. To carry 250 lb. Bombs.
I designed the carriers, a nasty design problem. I solved it and got a raise for doing so.
Great to read that they were put to good use.
Walter.

Walter McGowan, yeovil=comcast.net, 07.08.2010
I worked on the P9 the first prototype in the Experiment shop, 1938. I was an apprentice. After a flight I was with the ground crew after a flight. It was a cold wind blowing, “high ups” and the cold ground crew drifted off for shelter.
I was told to stay with the plane.
I was alone and so climbed into the cockpit for warmth.
Picture an 18 year old youth in charge of a secret fighter.
Imagine that today.
Later I was promoted to the design department and worked on the installation of 2 Merlin in the production version.
This was not to order yet, so the funding was Westlands.
At that time the firm was taken over by John Browns the ship building people. They refused to finance the project.
So we stopped the design.
What a mistake. Initially the guns were drum fed, limited the firing time but later had belt feed.
They sure made quick work of trains and enemy road convoys.
I have a model where I can see it each day.

Here:

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/west_whirlwind.php

Well, untill anything else turns up we have this and there’s Rocketeers Whirly windscreen for hands on measurements…;)

The chap who was supposed to make our project P9 Whirly cockpit was going to make the virtual cockpit using just these documents, then check them against the pilots notes images by placing a ‘virtual’ camera in the same position as the ‘real’ camera with a lens of the same focal length…

Can’t that be done for this project?

Are these of use… :rolleyes:

I must admitt, amongst the whirlwind pilots I spoke to, two said it was a b***** dangerous aircraft to fly and they were glad when they had stopped flying them.

B***** dangerous… 😀

Hi Jerry

Can you tell us why they thought it B***** Dangerous… 😉

Stu…

I’ve met Capt Brown a couple of times and he’s a fantastic guy!

Just a quick note and I hope you don’t mind me asking – but do you think the title could be changed to ‘Interview with…’? Only reason is that the current title looks like it could be a link to an obituary.

Said and done… 😉