I´ll say Ventura! Probably wrong though!

Bits and bobs about the M-52 in the latest Miles Aircraft Collection Magazine.

Peter Amos has researched this for over 50 years now, and he along with a fellow researcher (working equally long on the subject) have been unable to establish the true facts behind this cancellation. I think it is highly unlikely we are going to uncover the truth on the forum, nice as it would have been!

Galdri

I was just editing a posting that I was making and I hope that opens up the question a bit.

I just noticed that. But still it is impossible to answer!! Let´s play the IF game for a moment. But the IF´s never stop! IF the U.S had not become involved in ETO, the Luftwaffe had not been hurt as much as it did. In that case, deep penetration by Bomber Command by night would have been very costly in the last two years of the war. But since they did participate, we only have to look at Albert Speer to see the effect of the Lancaster. I do not have my references at hand, but he is quoted as saying that British air attacks did more damage than american ones. (That can be directly linked to the Lancaster´s load carrying ability compared to the american types).

And the IF game does not stop there. What IF Lancasters had been cleaned up a bit?? Loose the mid-upper turret, lots of armour etc. They would have been hard catch for Luftwaffe´s main night fighter in 1943/1944, the Me-110. Guy´s, we are going to go around in circles with this one!

By the way the saying I have heard is “Those that can do…., those that can’t teach…., and those that can’t teach write books about it!

cheers

That is why I´ve never written a book. I think I can teach, as my Type Rating Instructor/Type Rating Examiner papers seem to imply. But I can not actually fly:D I´m always upside down for some strange reason.

Did the German machine have metal wings or was that just from French production?

I have just learned that only the French production aircraft had metal wings.

Must admit I was a bit surprised by this.

Any further research would be best done through the Nation Archives at Kew. You know the time frame, from approx. begining of Febuary 1944 till the end of March. You can order the ORB (operation record book) for 51 squadron for that period, and get the complete movements of this particular Halifax. I´ll have to pay for it if you are not able to go there in person.

If you are next of kind to an airman you can get his details as well, but at the moment I can not for the live of me remember the address. I´m sure someone will come along and provide it!

BTW fantastic pictures of your Proctor. I´ll not put any of the Gemini up on here, as it a 30 year project and will be slow

What glue are you using? Looking at your photos I would say West System or similar??

If they pull this off, it will be fantastic. I, however, will remain sceptical until the aircraft has flown.

If it is true that they hold the design authority on the Shack, it will make things a lot easier paperwork wise. But there is a lot of things besides the paperwork. Where are they going to find the money (not readily seen on their website)? Where are they going to find the people qulified to do the work? Last but not least, where are they going to find hangarage for a big aircraft like that. They will not be doing a respar job out in the open, and even if they get the workforce for free (from where?), just the cost of hangarage will be huge. No mention is made of how they are going to cover that on their website.
Presumably they will need to a complete overhaul of all four engines and props to airworthy status. That is going to cost huge amounts of money, where is that money coming from???

Like I said before, I would really like to see them pull this one off. My memories of the Growler are fantastic. Growler doing a lowpass over Reykjavik Airport with me standing maybe 50 meters from the runway edge. Those Griffons really made my internal bodyparts shake!!!:D

Until we get a high res scan, I would be tempted to say they are Spitfire Mk.XIX´s. They were there at the time.