The bombs are being flung out of the bomb-bay by a dropping device…possibly rotating?

They look like hard points don’t they? A bit thin though. Edit, found this by Gogling
http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/html%20pages/handley%20page%20hp57%20halifax.htm

Mk Ills (HP.61) had retractable tailwheel, D-type enlarged fins, Hercules VI or XVI engines, Srs 1A type nose with single gun plus four-gun dorsal and tail turrets and in some cases ventral fairing containing an 0.50 in (12.7 mm) gun in Preston-Green mount. Fuel capacity increased to 1,986 Imp gal (9,028 1) and all but first few had longer wing with span increased to 104 ft 2 in (31.75 m). Max bomb load, 10,000 Ib'(4,540 kg) in fuselage and 3,000 Ib (1,362 kg) in wings. Production totalled 326 by HP at Radlett, 900 by English Electric at Samlesbury, 260 by LAPG at Leavesden, 280 by Rootes Securities at Speke and 326 by Fairey Aviation at Stockport; first deliveries November 1943 to No 433 Sqn, RCAF and No 466 Sqn, RAAF, and used by 41 operational squadrons in 1944/45, principally in 4 and 6 Groups.

Well quite! I do have to agree with you there….
I withdraw my comment :D.

You live in Farnham……I passed thru Farnham last December, didn’t see many overdressed lights on houses. Good area = sensible lights, or is that just a pattern I notice in every town?

Merry Xmas.

(Pending comments on the use of the X!!!)

🙂

Why do you say that?………….In my mind they were not my enemy…they were friends.

This is the whole point. We were not friends with the Iraq/Afghans before this mess. The genuine culture divide has always been a barrier, and will always be. There is a wicked hatred from each side to the other. Not to the civilians of course, the ordinary ppl as always will be taken as friends.

A political war, such as Falklands, or even WW2 before the Americans and Japs were involved does not usually step over a massive cultural divide. We know the enemy, and we know that he is an ordinary soldier doing his job because a politician has decided so.
The present mess does cross a cultural divide. Each side (Well, definately the other side) has absolutely no respect for the life of the other.
Israel has been trying to sort it out for years and got nowhere.

Pearl Harbour?
Surely, “From Here to Eternity” with Burt Lancaster and Frank Sinatra plus lots of others is the tops.

Airbus don’t seem to think they’ve had orders for 202 A380s.

Grey…Couldn’t find it on that link, but what I did find was very out of date,

….celebrating Christmas with a little more enthusiasm than most? :rolleyes:

Enthusiasm has nothing to do with it. They are just trying to out-do each other in a total non Christmas way. Don’t often see a flashing Jesus or a neon Mary!
Not that I can talk, the Bible is a book of tales, similar to bar talk.

I bet the Toon is bloody cold..i’m glad i live in the land of sunshine now

Does it ever get warm up the toon?

My wife says it would make a great shed/workshop!
Send money now!!!

We both agreed that it’s better than the pikey chav christmas lights all over some peoples houses.