Fantastic stuff, another triumphant opening episode!
The E Type sequence had it all, great cars, brilliant filming, and Jeremys’ over the top and tongue in cheek humour!

[QUOTE=’568 crew;1687626]Date: 1983
Title: The Right Stuff
Film/TV: Film[/QUOTE]

This was on telly last night, brilliant film, unfortunately couldn’t quite keep going until 3am!

This is lifted from Wiki,
‘Film models
A large number of film models were assembled for the production; for the more than 80 aircraft appearing in the film, static mock-ups and models were used as well as authentic aircraft of the period.[11] Lt. Col. Duncan Wilmore (ret.) acted as the United States Air Force liaison to the production, beginning his role as a technical consultant in 1980 when the pre-production planning had begun. The first draft of the script in 1980 had concentrated only on the Mercury 7 but as subsequent revisions developed the treatment into more of the original story that Wolfe had envisioned, the aircraft of late-1940s that would have been seen at Edwards AFB were required. Wilmore gathered World War II era “prop” aircraft including:
Douglas A-26 Invader
North American P-51 Mustang
North American T-6 Texan and
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
The first group were mainly “set dressing” on the ramp while the Confederate Air Force (now renamed the Commemorative Air Force) B-29 was modified to act as the “mothership” to carry the Bell X-1 and X-1A rocket-powered record-breakers.[12]
Other “real” aircraft included the early jet fighters and trainers as well as current USAF and United States Navy examples. These flying aircraft and helicopters included:
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
LTV A-7 Corsair II
North American F-86 Sabre
Convair F-106 Delta Dart
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw
Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
Northrop T-38 Talon[13]
A number of aircraft significant to the story had to be recreated. The first was an essentially static X-1 that had to at least roll and even realistically “belch flame” which was accomplished by a simulated rocket blast from the exhaust pipes.[11] A series of wooden mock-up X-1s were used to depict interior shots of the cockpit, the mating up of the X-1 to a modified B-29 fuselage and bomb bay and ultimately to recreate flight in a combination of model work and live-action photography. The “follow-up” X-1A was also an all-wooden model.[12]
The U.S. Navy’s Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket that Crossfield duelled with Yeager’s X-1 and X-1A was recreated from a modified Hawker Hunter jet fighter. The climactic flight of Yeager in a Lockheed NF-104A was originally to be made with a modified Lockheed F-104 Starfighter but ultimately, Wilmore made the decision that the production had to make do with a Luftwaffe F-104G, which lacks the rocket engine of the NF-104.[12]
Wooden mock-ups of the Mercury space capsules also realistically depicted the NASA spacecraft and were built from the original mold.[5]
For many of the flying sequences, scale models were produced by USFX Studios and filmed outdoors in natural sunlight against the sky. Even off-the-shelf plastic scale models were utilized for aerial scenes. The X-1, F-104 and B-29 models were built in large numbers as a number of the more than 40 scale models were destroyed in the process of filming.[14] The blending together of miniatures, full-scale mock-ups and actual aircraft was seamlessly integrated into the live-action footage. The addition of original newsreel footage was used sparingly but to effect to provide another layer of authenticity.’

Thank you Cees, so collating the excellent information provided by you and HP81,

Taken from the Hermes IV engineers course notes.

Area 1408 sq ft.
Aspect ratio 9.08.
Aerofoil section NACA 230 srs.

Chord at root 16 ft.
Chord at tip (projected) 5 ft 9.8 in.
Thickness/Chord ratio Root 21%, Tip 6.7%.

Dihedral (top surface)
Centre plane 0 deg,
Intermediate plane 205 min.
Outer plane 1 deg 30 min.

Sweep back,
Centre plane 0 deg,
Intermediate plane6 deg 24 min,
Outer plane 9 deg 38 min.

Incidence 2 deg ± 35 min.

Fuselage side to thrust line of inboard engines 6 ft 10 in.
Fuselage side to thrust line of outboard engine 20 ft 0.5 in.

The notes say that the centre plane is one piece (the complete wing is in 5 sections) and the diagram shows the centre plane having 12 ribs A – G left and right, they are not uniformally spaced & no dimensions are given.
As noted the intermediate & outer front spars have different sweep back, the centre has none. The rear spar is at 90 deg to the aircraft centre line throughout its span.

From the Hastings C Mk I Servicing Manual

Area 1408 sq ft (from Wiki)
Aerofoil section NACA 23021
Intermediate plane root NACA 23021
Outer plane tip NACA 23007

Chord At root 16 ft 0,32 in.
Chord At tip (Projected*) 5 ft 9,81 in.
Chord at wingtip joint 6 feet 11 inch.
*(leading and trailing edge profile lines extended to extreme wing tip)

Dihedral (top surface at rear spar)
Centre plane top surface 0 degresss +/- 15 min.
Intermediate plane, top surface, rear spar 2 degrees. 5 min +/- 15 min.
Outer plane, top surface, rear spar 1 degree.30 min +/- 15 min.

Sweepback at leading edge
Centre Plane 0 degrees
Intermediate plane 6 degrees. 22 min.
Outer plane 9 degrees.31 min.

Incidence 2 degrees

span according to manual 112 feet 9 inch.

Mainwheel track 24 feet 8 inches*
*measured by Blue2

It would be great to find the same detailed AP info for the Halifax now.
What we do know for sure here,

Span 104ft 2in
Area 1,190 sq ft
Aerofoil NACA 23021
The Intermediate Wing is about 8 feet 6 ins*
The outer wing, with the engine on it, is about 30 feet 6 ins*
Mainwheel track 24 feet 8 ins*
*measured off NA337 by Deryck

These illustrations show the breakdown of the two types wing sections and the lengthened intermediate section of the Hastings/Hermes.

Later Hailfax wing sections

Hastings wing sections, note wing to fuselage fairings etc omitted for clarity.

As Cees says in his last sentence the Hastings/Hermes wing is clearly adapted from the Halifax wing, if you literally cut, extend, and paste the Hali wing planform you get the Hastings wing complete with the modified tapers on the intermediate section.
Aerofoils are also the same, obviously the overall aspect ratio will be increased.
A schedule of Spare Parts or IPC for the Hastings will confirm the use of HP57 part numbers in the wing.

Would still like to know the individual wing section lengths as kindly offered by T/O:)

‘Meatbox’.

What a lovely shot!:)

Replacement of the Meteor NF, Gloster Javelin

Same here, but ain’t gonna nail it like you can!:)

Personally I’m convinced the chords are the same, the outer wing is just cut at the aileron line and not through the outboard flap. I wouldn’t call it completely different.
The drawings that I have provided above overlay on late Halifax and Hastings planform perfectly, even the wing tips seem to be the same shape.
The bit that differs is the increased span (and thus reduced taper) intermediate section, and minor changes such as fairings and leading edge intakes etc.

Cees you ask about the HP 57 numbers and you say you have the Hastings AP, that should contain the part numbers somewhere.

What a fascinating (and hopefully not final) update to the subject, many thanks for joining and adding your valuable family history aspect to it.
I’m thinking that the Lossie ORB for the period should cover the accident.