Mark,

So this is your retirement project as you mentioned earlier. Any idea how to find a Mk 22 tailsection?
An exciting project in any sense, please keep us informed.
Cheers

Cees

Any project updates?

Mike,

How are your projects going on at the moment? There must be a source of spare parts in your neck of the woods with the locally produced Bolingbroke?

Cheers

Cees

The VGO gun in the nose of later Halifaxes was just added for psychological effect for the bombaimer so that he at least had something to shoot with when attacked, and occasionaly it did give a good account of itself. Why the Lancaster persisted with the noseturret remains unclear (to me anyway).

Cees

For me personally: an original Halifax pilot’s seat (but a repro is on the way)
For the community: a substantial Stirling wreck in similar condition as W1048 or NA337 and the same drive to restore it as they did on NA337.

Or something like below (it’s the Aaron VC Stirling, couldn’t find any credits)
Cees

Interesting point. My immediate thought is that for attacking the models of B17 that didn’t have guns that trained immediately forwards, German fighter units quickly learned that the best way to attack was head on. Consequently forward firing MGs were added as field mods, and then factory fitted. The point being that as soon as you take a defensive gun away, the enemy learns and exploits it.

However, for night bombers this is perhaps a moot point. I would have thought that a ventral turret would have been the most useful application and the nose turret could have been removed and faired over, as the main attack was going to be below and behind with Schrage Musik and a head on attack at night not really practical.

But then do you get c/g problems from taking out the heavy nose turret which means you might as well leave it there?

And how are you going to aim against the dark ground below?

Cees

Where are the Wellington pics?

Cees