We’re always looking to expand the collection though!

I must let you have the ex-wife’s address. I forgot all about the 250 lber. in the back garden when we split up. There can’t be many wives who’ve gained a bomb as part of their divorce settlement!

I had loads of fun with that bomb. I used to turn up with it in the back of my old Renault 4. I’d lift the tailgate to proudly show it to friends, family and the like, but they didn’t know about the loudly ticking alarm clock hidden behind it! 😮

Back on topic, wasn’t a Tiger Moth experimentally fitted with a scythe like blade hanging vertically below the fuselage, supposedly to enable it to cut down the invading Hun?

And who dreamt up the idea of “Razzle”? Small packs of phosphorous, kept at bay by being water soaked in the aeroplane, but supposedly setting fire to forests and crops when dropped by Bomber Command over Germany.

Desperate times, desperate measures!

The factory just a short way down the road had just such a system “guarding” the employees car park.

Once the local yoof cottoned on, all you could hear some nights was an amplified voice shouting:

“Gerra way from my car you little b*****ds, p*** off home or I’ll come down after yer…”

😀

Hi shawlein, and welcome to the forum.

There has been lots of threads about spade grips, often mentioning Canadian ones. Try a search for more info.

Your grip appears to be an AH2242 pattern. These were usually intended for Harvard training aircraft.

Correct Cees, but it was bad grammar rather than forgetfulness on my part.

What I should have typed was “As far as I’m aware, Stirlings used the FN 50, not the FN 150”.

🙂

We can always argue that this was taken in 1945

Given that the Halifax depicted has fluorescent gauges (note the later style r.p.m.s), there’s a very high probability that it was photographed in 1945, or postwar.

But aren’t we straying off the subject of 1939 480 m.p.h. ASIs?

Olivier,

We must have different Pilot’s Notes?

My copy, for the ASR 1, clearly shows an ASI calibrated in m.p.h. The text quotes m.p.h. with corresponding knots shown in brackets.

I have Provisional Notes for the GR 5. This does not have any photos, but the text refers to knots exclusively.

So I think you have a situation where the bomber versions would have had ASIs in m.p.h., but those later adapted for use with Coastal Command would have had ASIs reading in knots (same happened to the Whitley, Hampden, Beaufighter, etc).

My reason for mentioning the Warwick was to remind us that this aircraft was under development in the same time period as Graham’s 1939 ASI was manufactured. At this point, the aircraft was a heavy bomber. The prototype was flying in 1939.

Hence, another candidate to explain Graham’s early dated 480 m.p.h. ASI.

Arriving at the Yorkshire Air Museum at 3.10 p.m. on a blazing hot sunday in October, seeing earlier visitors strolling around in shorts and T-shirts, and being told:-

“Sorry, we close at 4 p.m. in winter and we don’t like locking up in the dark.”

Thanks Tom,

Which contrasts nicely with an unplanned spur of the moment visit to the Mosquito Aircraft Museum a couple of years ago, to be told:

“We’re not open to the public on mondays, and cannot offer you the full range of customer facilities, but if you’d like to wander around and perhaps make a small donation…”

Was that you Bruce (or any other volunteers who frequent this board)? You’d disappeared out of sight by the time I’d ended my abbreviated tour but I wanted to thank you for showing courtesy and initiative.

This may help…