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November 27, 2015 at 6:37 pm in reply to: Your Favourite Control Column Stick/Yoke/Grip! #901241

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Quick question on this Lynx column – the centre LIVE button is missing on most pictures.

Was it used only on a specific variant ? I can see it on pics of the Norwegian machines

Thanks.

November 27, 2015 at 6:09 pm in reply to: Friday Afternoon Teaser #901402

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Well done Sir. I had a Ju87 machine gun ammo tray cover last year – so was able to identify this part from what I recalled.

The RLM70 paint and Junkers gold anodising are also clues.

It doesn’t help that the machine at Hendon doesn’t have these guns.

Ju87 Left wing MG 17 cover.

The links for the aircraft details are:

http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap412.html

http://www.geocities.ws/hjunkers/ju_g60pl.htm#g87pl

Although no mention of 8701 is made – the adjacent werknummers were also in the same geschwader. So I assume it was damaged and used for spares.

Squadron was at Kirkennes in Norway attacking Murmansk at the time of the loss.

November 27, 2015 at 5:24 pm in reply to: Friday Afternoon Teaser #901415

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Ok clue No.1 It was sent to me from Russia and the answer to Q2 is in the image below..

November 16, 2015 at 1:00 pm in reply to: Aircraft Panel I.D. Please #909634

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The number sounds Vickers Viking ish.

November 14, 2015 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Luftwaffe Engine Cowls #910989

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Thank you Elliott – it has been a long and frustrating three weeks.

November 14, 2015 at 9:52 am in reply to: Luftwaffe Engine Cowls #911261

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A nice gentleman from the Smithsonian has sent me a picture of their Jumo 213 with cowl that match exactly.

So this are definitely the port upper and starboard lower cowl leaves from a 213 engined Ju88 or 188.

November 11, 2015 at 5:49 pm in reply to: Lancaster engine nacelles questions #913098

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Due to differing opinions on this – I thought I would confuse the issue with some facts.

Please find the Lancaster drawings for IB and OB at the join with the wing and firewall..

As you can see the OB has the cranked bottom edge that extends into the front nacelle and so although the engines may be interchangeable the nacelles must be different at least at this rear join.

Of course this is just my opinion and any engineer with experience of the Lancaster is better suited to reply than me

November 10, 2015 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Lancaster engine nacelles questions #913758

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Graham the luftwaffe used the kraftei pod concept.

The lancaster inner has a straight joint at the firewall. The outer has a crank at the lower part of the firewall.

November 10, 2015 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Your Favourite Control Column Stick/Yoke/Grip! #913882

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Yes Ian –

I did find an original KG12/13 button but it was too expensive at >>70 Euros so I had to stick a modern one in instead.

November 10, 2015 at 5:20 pm in reply to: Gunsight mirror #913901

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Thanks Alan – I have the drawing of the type B in the British armaments book and it shows the large mirror but no details or codes – much appreciated.

The book says that the type B periscopic sight was not widely used..

Also 1941 date suggests it may have been from the initial early B mk1 first fittings ? or Manchester ?

Nice picture here:
http://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/bomber-command-memorial-a-german-perspective.176044/page-25

and some disparaging comments in this thread post 19 onwards.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?49716-Aircraft-turrets-(any)

November 10, 2015 at 4:16 pm in reply to: Lancaster engine nacelles questions #914014

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I was looking through the drawings last month to identify a cowl section which is why I noticed they were different.

Not to mention the lower sections that have differences inner and outer for the wheels on the inner only.

November 10, 2015 at 3:39 pm in reply to: Your Favourite Control Column Stick/Yoke/Grip! #914035

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The HE111 item is part of the hand grips used on the MGFF’s in the noses, these cannon were designed for wing mounting, must have been a hell of a bang when you pushed the button

I cast a new base from low melting point alloy and found a button for the one I got from Poland.

November 10, 2015 at 1:39 pm in reply to: Lancaster engine nacelles questions #914209

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inner and outer are different!

November 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Vickers Wellington – airframe construction query! #914857

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It was made using a cunning set of multiple rollers to create the shape – all in a single machine – made by several sets of roller heads following on one from each other.

There is a similar machine at one of the museums.

October 30, 2015 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Cowl collection #922596

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Peter just some small bit – the bits of cowl we discussed before.
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