Malcolm,

Any pics? Short Stirling type is 29, could the 25 be a 29?
Are they T-shaped when looked at from the front with fittings
for leather toe straps and transverse ribbing on top of the
pedals to prevent slipping?

Any pics would be better

Cheers

Cees

If Barnes Wallis designed the Tallboy and Grandslam then as an aircraft designer and having the aeronautical knowledge would have thought about the angled fins as well.

Cheers

Cees

This seems to be an oportune time to ask about the Tallboy and Grandslam on the HP Victor, is it true the Victor could carry these weapons?

Err,

Are you confusing the Victor with the Halifax?

There was indeed a modification by using nine strenghtening plates in the bombbay to carry the Tallboy and Grandslam.

Don’t forget a standard Lanc couldn’t carry the Tallboy or Grandslam. (in case of the Tallboy, different bombdoors would have to be fitted, in the latter Merlin 24’s, strenghtened landinggear, modified bombbay, deleting the dorsal turret etc.)

Cheers

Cees

Hi Deryck,

The visit to Elvington has been postponed for the time being unfortunately. From the top of my head I know that YAM’s Halifax hasn’t got any hydraulic systems fitted.

Wouldn’t it be advisable to label all items in the workshop:diablo:

Your drawing arrived yesterday. It’s exactly what I was looking for, thanks for you kind help. I am working on copying the drawing I have of the trimming controls set up and mail that to you probably next week.

Cheers

Cees

Deryck,

I think they are fitted inside the large fairing above the engine control box as bolted to frame 7. I believe the cockpit of PN323 at Lambeth has these valves still in place. I remember that there is a cutout in the middle of the fairing just above the engine control box showing hydraulic pipes. I think I have some detailed photographs of this section and will see if anything useful turns up.

Cees

Cees

do you know if the crashsite of Stirling LJ889 in Sweden has ever been investigated, particularly the existance of the rear fuselage section reported to have broken off in the lake?

http://home.no.net/thsord/short_stirling_mkiv__lj899.htm

Regards

Mark Pilkington

Hi Mark,

No, I have no information about that one. Spent yesterday moving the wingtip of BK620 about in the museum. We are stil working on that one, it came down in a large lake near Schiphol. The majority of the wrek was recovered by the Germans but a lot is stil left at the lake bottom. The complete tail turret is on show in our smaller museum. There are large sections to be found, recent events proved this (the half fuselage now at Vraux in France and the substantial fuselage section now on show at Deelen, the Netherlands). The Scandinavian lakes surely must still contain restorable Stirling bits.

Cheers

Cees

None..
No Spitfire No Fury No Tempest has survived. I’d be guessing but I believe most of them were sold as spares to other countries.

Pity,

Not even anything lurking in scrapyards etc.? Like Afghanistan you would expect thing to have survived. Who knows, perhaps any Halifax remains somewhere…… We can dream can we.

Cheers

Cees