After-market mod. Riley for Lycoming and Saunders for turbo-props IIRC.

How does USAAF installation trials in June 1945 prove they were a joint design when the RAF had been dropping Tallboy operationally for a year by that date?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that papers discovered after the war which showed that the germans were playing with Highball type bombs about the same time we were with the same purpose in mind – attacking capital ships

I found this:

“After Operation Chastise, the Germans discovered an Upkeep bomb that had failed to explode lying in some woods and subsequently a 385 kg (850 pound) version of the bouncing bomb was also trialed by the Luftwaffe. Designed for use against British shipping, it was given the codename Kurt, and was built at the Luftwaffe Experimental Centre in Travemünde. However, they failed to understand the importance of backspin, and in trials, dropped by an Fw 190, it proved to be dangerous to the delivering planes as the bomb matched the speed at which it was dropped. Attempts to rectify this with booster rockets were ultimately a failure, and the project was discontinued in 1944.”

on Wiki yesterday which rings bells.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

Also, the shorter the description in the Haynes manual, the worse the job will be.

A full page of instructions, when you actually get around to it, will probably take 10 minutes.

If it just says “remove widget” – worry.

It will be held on by numerous nuts/bolts, all of different sizes, all rusty and all will be inaccessible, except one to lull you into thinking it’s going to be easy.

I thought the Mosquito boys at Salisbury hall were looking at getting their B.35(?) mossie in the air…. some time ago I remember there being some excitement around x-raying it to spot delamination.. I know nothing, so I’ll shut up now…

Bruce!….. Bruce!…..?

IIRC, the tests were done as an experiment to see if, on principle, TA634 could be returned to an airworthy condition.

It was more of a general investigation for Mosquitos as a whole, rather than with the intention of actually doing something to that particular airframe.

10 years too late but nice try. 🙂

Eric “Winkle” Brown may have mentioned it but I’m 99% (ish) sure it was the Botha and it’s in a book of flight test reports from Boscombe Down.

If I knew where the book was it would probably help…

The aircraft may well have been a dog but it was certainly underpowered which presumably didn’t help. IIRC, it had Taurus (Taurii?) and whatever the next one up was were suggested but they were already earmarked for something else, possibly the Beaufighter.