A little titbit: WZ415 was the 2nd production Vampire T.11 and sent to the A&AEE to compare its performance with WW458, a pre-production airframe.
Source: “DH Vampire, the complete history”by David Watkins.
I think that should be two turbosuperchargers (driven by the exhaust) per Wright Cyclone R-3350 engine, total 8.
I have broadband here in Sweden and can see them without problems.
Of course, Ja Worsley, silly of me. The J21R was a heavily modified version of the pusher propeller J21. The first flight of the J21R was in March 1947. Of the 120 originally ordered only 60 were delivered, the remainder being cancelled. They served as interceptors at F10 Ängelholm but lack of a pressurised cabin prevented full operational use, so they were transferred to F7 Sätenås for use as ground attack fighters.
Somehow I even overlooked taking a photo of the preserved J21R last week at the RSwAF Museum Linköping! I must have a mental block as far as that aircraft is concerned!
12E. WK935 “Prone Meteor” at Cosford, the last F.8 built by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton.First flown by Eric Franklin on 10 February 1954, delivered to Farnborough after manufacturers’ flight trials on 31 August 1954. Flew a total of 99 test sorties, clocking up 55 flying hours. Became instructional airframe 7869M.
Thanks for the tip, Ren Frew, I can never get enough help with Photoshop and have asked my relatives in the UK to buy it for me to collect next time I go over.
Perhaps you mean this (civil) Portsmouth Aviation Ltd Aerocar Major from 1947? Although it’s propeller-driven.
Of course SAAB converted their pusher propeller J21 into the J21R with a turbojet, that also had twin booms but was not really anything like a Vampire otherwise.
BTW, shouldn’t this thread be in Historic Avaiation?
The only way is to attend a hands-on course – I spent 14 weeks learning the introduction to Photoshop 7 and still didn’t cover all the tools it contains! Illustrator is at least as complicated!
The first Royal Swedish Air Force Vampire F.1 (J28A) aircraft of a contract for 70 were delivered from Hatfield to F13 Wing at Norrköping by a group of Swedish pilots, accompanied by John Cunningham, on 4 June 1946.
I’ve been waiting for someone else to point you to this site, which has this photo as the opener:
Marvellous pictures, Stieglitz, very well done!
Dakota Kid II
I am not sure that the Dakota Kid II that I photographed is the same aircraft as the one Chad Veich says – here is a detail from my photo and one of N151HR from almost the same angle (from the Mustang Survivors List web site).
Mustang Identifications
Photo no./Ident
3. North American P-51C-10NT Mustang 42-103645 NL61429 Tuskegee Airmen of the Commemorative Air Force, based at St Paul, Minnesota
4. P-51D Mustang racer Cloud Dancer N55JL from Ocala, Florida
5. Air Combat Museum, Springfield, Illinois, 29 July, North American P-51D Mustang Worry Bird owned by Mike George, who was there and told us something of the incredible costs of maintaining, flying and insuring his aircraft.
8. North American P-51D-25NA Mustang Petie 2nd 44-72942 N5427V owned by Anthony Buechler and based at Waukesha, Wisconsin.
9. and 10. Cloud Dancer again
11. Mustang scale replica – which despite the prop size did actually fly!
12. North American P-51D Mustang, privately owned, N6341T, ex. 45-11453, ‘Old Crow’,
13. Cloud Dancer again
The main difference seems to be that the Mercury series had a shorter stroke (6.5 in.) than the Pegasus series (7.5 in.). Apart from that, both engines have exactly the same basic description in the aero engines section of Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II.
I’m still waiting for a caption – or even some reaction – to my 11th photo! Take another look at it and see if you notice something strange there!