Westlands have been given the green light by the Air Ministry to produce 400 units of Mr Petters Mk II Whirlwind design. This due mainly to a deal struck between Rolls Royce & Packards to produce another 1000 Peregrine V-12 Aero engines, built under licence to Rolls Royce for use with the Mk II Whirlwind. Packards having agreed to further develop the Peregrine to produce an engine of 1000hp with improved performance & reliability… For this they would be given sole rights to produce the ‘New’ Peregrine 1000 hp V-12 Marine engine to suppliment their 1350, 1400, and 1500 horsepower V-12 units that powered American PT boats …

Petters Mk II now fitted with a couple of reliable Peregrine’s kicking out 985hp each, a new propeller with greater pitch, an extra 35gallon fuel tank and a new nose with room for four 20mm cannon with continuous feed, 120 rpg, plus an extra three 0.303-in Browning guns with 400 rpg…

What job would you give this little ‘She Devil’ now… 😉

Why bother to carry on with development of the Peregrine – just fit a couple of Merlins and use it as a long range, high performance, cannon armed fighter – the de Havilland Hornet of its’ day

Is that a good representation of the colours in which it is painted?

Moggy

the options are likely to be

Manufacturers finish = Du Pont equivalents of Dark Earth / Dark green uppers or
Australian repaint prior/during service = Earth Brown/Foliage Green uppers

both different from the DE/DG colours we know and love!

the current Wrecks and Relics quotes the Lashendon example as being Wk Nr 100549 ex Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Lavenham, Hullavington, Biggin Hill, Farnborough

even more curious is the half-and-half restoration of the Hampden – which wont even be delineated by a straight line down the fuselage centre line.

Smacks of penny-pinching to me

SM520

SM520 – For sale for two million of your english pounds

according to the other historical aviation monthly…………

Why would they be? :confused:

Because it seems nobody is entirely sure what precise colour the prototype was painted……..

SL542 – A low back mk16-acquired by a Marcel Deschamps and Jocelyn Cote from Anthony Gurak -it was evidently stored in a barn after quite a lot of restoration work

It’s the one that was swapped for the Petsamo Hampden now at RAFM so it’s not been lost for that long. It used to be a UK gate guardian not that long ago IIRC – possibly came down from its pole into RAFM care as part of the famous plastic Spitfires for real Spitfires swap which saw BM597 and EP120 come in from the cold- although it wasn’t one of the ones that went to HFL

I’m sure a certain Spitfire expert will correct me if the memory isn’t as good as it was