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  • January 9, 2009 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Bulldog in Reach For the Sky #1167167
    John Aeroclub
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    Just an idle musing on a Bulldog theme but does anyone know the identity of the penultimate Bulldog survivor and where, when and in what circumstances it met its end?

    Apart from the Finnish examples there was a two seater K3932 around as late as 1953 when it was scrapped. Another late British survivor was K3183 used as an engine testbed by Napiers and then Alvis to test the Leonides. (C.H. Barnes)

    John

    January 9, 2009 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1167178
    John Aeroclub
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    Lancaster Flare chutes

    Ref the possible window dispenser on the nose. I have just found reference in Mason’s “The Secret Years” (he was the skipper of the first Canberra I flew in BTW) to the very troublesome flare chute fitted to the Lanc due to up-draughts which prevented proper operation of anything put down it. Depite many mods the problem was only resolved with the fitting of a Mk V chute in the nose in October 1944 (all others were in the tail). Clear photos of this device are like hens teeth.

    So I presume, unlike french micro-bore toilets, one could stick other things down it as well. Window is of course still used but now it’s called Chaff and has got smaller due to change in ever higher radio frequencies from the revolutionary centimetric wavelengths of the late war years.

    John

    January 9, 2009 at 2:28 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1168020
    John Aeroclub
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    With the advance in higher frequency radars the window strips became much smaller and would require a more efficient dispensing system than chucking it down the flare chute as had been used previously. I’m just surmising here by the way. Quarter wavelength and all that.

    John

    January 9, 2009 at 2:01 pm in reply to: Bulldog in Reach For the Sky #1168047
    John Aeroclub
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    So the wing tips are a Pup!

    John

    I mistook the serial as that of the Shuttleworth Pup when I should have said Brisfit. Doh 😮

    January 9, 2009 at 1:18 pm in reply to: Bulldog in Reach For the Sky #1168092
    John Aeroclub
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    So the wing tips are a Pup!

    John

    January 9, 2009 at 11:58 am in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1168282
    John Aeroclub
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    Good call, it looks like some form of diffuser by the number of “vents” it has.

    John
    Looking and scratching my…….:D

    January 9, 2009 at 10:56 am in reply to: Bulldog in Reach For the Sky #1168409
    John Aeroclub
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    In the background of Mk12’s photo is what appears to be another “Bulldog” as well as an Anson.

    John

    January 9, 2009 at 10:52 am in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1168417
    John Aeroclub
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    I’ll have to go for something like a Darmstadt design or even FW.

    John

    January 9, 2009 at 10:49 am in reply to: Texans in The Great Escape #1168418
    John Aeroclub
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    I think you will find these were all simply “background warplanes) possibly Swiss as in Where Eagles Dare. The borrowed plane by the way was a Bucker Bestman, at least an authentic Luftwaffe type. The Luftwaffe did have a few “borrowed” NA Yales.

    John

    January 9, 2009 at 10:44 am in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1168432
    John Aeroclub
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    To add to Kev35’s list, possibly 15 Sqns worst night was 7/8June when they lost 4 a/c LL781 -L, LM354-A, LL495-M, and LM575-H over France. as well as ND 955 on the 24/25 May. (Chorley).

    John

    January 8, 2009 at 10:50 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1168811
    John Aeroclub
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    Most of it is just cross referencing and observation. Gee H and H2S saw widespread use in Bomber Command and Gee H was still in use on Canberras in the early 60’s. I love something one can get ones teeth into.

    John

    January 8, 2009 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1168823
    John Aeroclub
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    What is the device under the stbd side of the Lancs nose? anyone!

    John

    January 8, 2009 at 9:47 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1168853
    John Aeroclub
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    Keith

    There is also a pencil marking “GH” mainly on photo 26. This refers to the use of Gee H bombing radar (my first equipment) Gee was the nav part and H the bombing part, and one regarding H2S radar (thats the bulge radome under the Lanc. There is an odd ref to “Abandoned over the target” but as the a/c is “R” they didn’t abandon the plane, presumably it refers to Op abandoned. A lot of the targets appear to be V1 sites. ME695 was a Lancaster 1 built by Metropolitan Vickers. Unless there were two Hobbs, his promotion was flipping fast, from Flt/Sgt to Flt/ Lt in no time. Do some of the crew appear to have the darker Australian uniform, and where did the airman in the last line-up leave his bike?:rolleyes:

    John

    January 8, 2009 at 9:24 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1168924
    John Aeroclub
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    On Log 25, does that pencil entry read “George and Queen and Princesses visited”?
    It would also appear that the Lanc “R” in the photos is ME695.

    John

    January 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1170223
    John Aeroclub
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    No I am stuck on this one. The fin shape suggests Pander and the wing and aileron are familiar to a number of german manufacturers.

    John

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