We, at Trenton, looked at using the Hasting undercarriage castings with the Dowty folks (They had, by then, acquired Messier) and the legs are much too short.

Remember that the Halifax is a mid-wing aircraft while the Hastings is a low- wing.

Pageno1.

It looks like it could be a typo as, although the span is indicated to be longer, the wing area does not change.

The Hastings is a low wing aeroplane and the maximum curvature of the Hastings fuselage is above the centreline of the inboard propellers. Thus the engine spacing may not have had be changed in order too allow them to have a larger diameter fuselage on the existing Halifax/Hastings centre section.

If you wish I will measure the Intermediate wings and the outer mainplanes on NA337. I am usually there before the building is open to the public.

However the difference according to Pagen01 is only 0.2 of a meter, what’s that – 6″ or 7″. Hardly noticable!

OK, Just for the record – I measured the mainwheel track of NA 337 today and it is 24ft 8ins. Now if someone will measure the track of the Hastings we will settle that item.

Looks like a couple of Avro Tutors and a Miles Magister.

Peter, Re the Lanc, you are no doubt correct, I did not dig back over 40 years of photos to check the number, it was a WAG.

The period when Bob Stewart had his museum at the Oshawa airport would have been in the ’60’s, when I was learning to fly. The Oshawa Flying club had some instructors who had been based there during the war years.

In ’60’s in the hangars was a B-17 undergoing maintenance for Kenting.

A Lanc owned by the air cadets used to run it’s engines every Sunday. Kermit Weeks now has that airframe, or most of it.

A privately owned Mustang was active along with some Harvards.

The Hudson that was eventually mounted on a plinth at Gander was in the hangar having some Harvard engines installed to allow it to be ferried to Gander.

During the time I hung around the Oshawa airport I never saw any activity that might have been recognizable as part of a restoration of the Boly. Bob’s museum has gone now, or at least I have not been able to find anyone that has seen it lately. With the A/P mods it is now in a part that the public does not get to very often.

I spent some 13 years at the Canadian Warplane Heritage at Hamilton working on the Yale restoration and latterly on the Anson as crew chief. In 1995 I retired and moved to the Trenton area and I have been working in their restoration shop on the Halifax and the Anson. I think I would have heard if anyone in the area, other than CWH, was restoring a Boly.

So, Sorry ‘brewerjerry’ I cannot help you on this one.

With a 1,000 B-17s, each with 10, 50 cal machine guns potentially firing, bullets fired must eventually reach the ground.

Even in the Midlands of England one of my Primary school teachers had a 50 cal bullet go through his car! That was due to an accidental firing when loading the guns on the ground prior to taxiing out for their mission.