Hi Matt

LAS have some F5-35, no ‘T’ is mentioned but they may be what you’re after

John

A very succinct reply thankyou Mark. As you say, for the purist it would be fantastic to get a complete original Stirling that could be placed in the Bomber Command Hall at Hendon, but please let’s take a reality pill here. We’ve been working hard to get where we are today and I’ve been at this for ten years now. Personally I’d like to be a lot further ahead with the Project than where we are today. But we’ve virtually exhausted the Russian avenue and unless there’s a new era of Glasnost and pictures come to light I don’t think we’re going anywhere with that side of things.

At the end of the day, we have precious few drawings, original parts are in short supply and unless a well preserved example emerges from a Fjord, we’re unlikely to go beyond a fuselage and what we will have will be a compromise. One thing we’re not that short of is undercarriages but like the Halifax engines will be an issue.

If you want to see a complete Stirling then an FSM is the way forward unless one emerges from somewhere….fingers crossed eh!:)

Er… I’ll take some convincing on this.

Let’s say it happened.. what would you have? A picture of a Lancaster and two big models.

There are zillions of pictures of Lancasters available already and thousands of pictures of real Stirlings and Halifaxes.

What would an image of this modern re-enactment add?

Moggy

I don’t quite agree with you Moggy, yes the other 2 would be facsimiles but what is missing from photos is the sheer scale of the aircraft. At teh end of the day if one of the PJ Lancs, the Elvington Haliax and a FSM Stirling could be put together in one place, that would be a fitting tribute methinks. It’s one thing to see a Lanc in the flesh, but Joe Bloggs for the most part would be hard pressed to identify a Halifax let alone a Stirling. A model even if only an external replica, is probably the only way anyone will ever see a full size Stirling and so long as it doesn’t detract from our cockpit repro (again a facsimile albeit as accurate as possible) I’m all for it.

BTW AFIK, Sunderland and Stirling wings are not compatible, I think the subject has been covered on another thread.

John

A casual enquiry was made to us a month or so ago. It’s certainly feasible to make the external profile using CAD, see link:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77197&page=3