Well I’ve heard of the Fairey Hendon – so there!!! sucks to you.

Thanks for posting that link – that is fantastic.

Those Aeroncas always make me chuckle, but in a nice way. That is a lovely job that has been done restoring ZK-AMW.

Well for a start the Germans would have to have developed some strategic bombers far better than their three main stays during the BoB and the following Blitz. The He177 was a developmental nightmare although if they’d gone with the experimental versions in which the two coupled engines were replaced by four separate units that may have been a possibility. The Ju 89 had been scrapped so one would assume that any jigs etc. had long gone while the New York Bombers were still in design and couldn’t have been introduced until much later. The Heinkel 111 and the Ju 88 would have had to carry the main weight of the attack and they weren’t the best load carriers for a strategic operation and the Dornier 17, 215 and 217 family were getting obsolete. They could have continued a blitz but the RAF had sufficient fighters and night fighters in development and production to counter the threat posed by those relative light weights. I suspect the major issue would have been sufficient fighter pilots and also the RAF would be continuing their own bomber offensive with far better designs like the Wellington, Halifax, Stirling and Manchester/Lancaster. Which the Germans would have had to counter with fighter defenses. Sounds like a bit of a stalemate to me which the RAF heavies would have broken.

Thanks for posting that – I was unaware that it was flying.

That debate has been going on for years in fact IIRC Jeff Neville was one of the people who pointed out problems with it years ago. This piece of metal has been claimed as part of the belly of the fuselage, part of the top and now it’s being claimed as the Miami patch. All very well and good but as discussed above as it is of post 1937 manufacture then the whole thing is rather pointless.

Very interesting,did I see a ME-109 with a two bladed prop?

The early examples with the Jumo engine all had 2 blade propellers.

So when can I expect to see it on the usual Moorabbin flight path down Centre Dandenong Road into Park Road and over my house. 😀