So this is Oran without the WW2 sound effects. 😀

It’s got to be worse or else it would have been used much more, especially when you think of the advantages in weight saving, (less structure, control surfaces, linkages etc), and less drag.
I’m really not sure what the problems are, but for Supermarine to have changed from the V tail 508 to the standard tail 525 and Scimitar, it must have been drastic.
Republic weren’t very happy with the V tail on the XF-91 compared to the conventional tailed version.

The V tail was replaced with a conventional tail because of directional stability at high speeds. This might not be a problem in aircraft with lower Mach numbers.

Iran have already been trying at the whole couterwieght thing and failing miserably in both Iraq and Gaza, unless you want to see Iran give Hamass these new shiny stealth fighters?

Hell why not, why should the Israelis always have all the airpower? – and it might make the Israelis think twice before they upset the place again. I know we are all supposed to hate Iran because the US does but on balance I think that the Iranians have shown much less aggression in the ME than a couple of other powers I can think of.

Anyway it will be interesting to see what the Iranians can produce – they can’t do any more damage than anyone else has done in that part of the world. Gawd I hate all this militaristic white men rule BS we are inflicted with at the moment, and the Israelis do need to be taken down a peg or two. I am tired of seeing the world forever being bought to the brink because Israel can’t control itself.

A suburb of Melbourne, Australia – Ashwood has a block of streets named Lancaster, Ventura, Wirraway, Hudson, Anson, Liberator, Beaufort, Catalina, Mitchell, Halifax and Mustang.

Hmmm, thanks! And what about that dash? I don’t recall seeing a dash actually painted on the a/c?

Dash – sometimes there appears to have been a little bit of creative separation of the letters and numbers in codes. I note that in Robertson’s book (quoted above) there is a picture of a Vernon marked JR-6904. There is also a picture of a Wapiti K-1300 of 27 Squadron. It just seems that the regs may say one thing but people do other things. I would like to see that photo of the Gordon if you track it down.

As Malcolm has said the “R” addition to a serial was used to denote a ‘rebuilt at local depot airframe’ and was very common in the 20’s but not certain about the 30’s use as K2630 was built in 32 and written off in 36 .

John

Oddly and perhaps a coincidence – according to Robertson’s British Military Aircraft Serials 1878-1987 Gordon K2603 was rebuilt in service. Might be a typo, or p’raps the serial on the aircraft in the photo was repainted with an error.

So the bunker is bunkum 😀