“blow up another hangar” Please can it be the American one,

John

The pilots position varied from the normal “B” types to that in the T.4 and in the B(I).8 and PR.9.
The pilots seat, in the “fighter canopied types, was moved back and higher up on an extension of what had been the Navs seat rail, against the pressure bulkhead, in the “goldfish bowl” canopied bombers, . In the T.4 the 1st dickies seat was moved slightly to port to make room for the second (swing) seat and this caused difficulties later with the change of “bone dome” having very little clearance for the curvature of the canopy, giving a tall pilot a lop sided look.

John

Were these radiators used on any other aircraft types ?

They can be found on some of the other Vickers derivitives commercial and military and were sometimes hung under the top wing.

John

A poor slide I took at Dijon Longvic in the early 80’s.

John

Hi John, the Lumsden book is very good isn’t it.

I am sorry to ask so many questions but this place seems to be an amazing centre of knowledge,

The prop hub I have on the engine has machine gun interupter gear cams set in a 4 blade prop sequence, does this narrow down the plane fitment ?

Does anyone have any idea if any Lion engined planes are still in existance anywhere ?

Thanks again.

Andy

Assuming that the hub is the correct one for that engine it does raise problems as none of the likely candidates for forwards firing armament used a four blade prop. The Avro Bison 1 used a four blade prop but had a Lion II.
The forwards firers for the VA are the IIIF Mk.1 and III D which had two blades as did the HP Harrow (biplane).

John

Hi Wieesso,

Thanks for your idea and link, you could be right, everything adds up.

The reason I asked about the Blackburn manual is that this engine many years ago was nicknamed “the Blackburn engine”, did that come from a “Blackburn aircraft” or was it from a “Blackburn Blackburn” plane ?

V’s were used on Blackburns but not the VA according to Lumsden. It was used on Southhampton II, Virginia VII, Fairey IIID and IIIF Mk.1 and some exotics like the Gloster II racing Seaplane.

John

Another Swift…

I have just dug this out of “my box of delights” as it may be of interest to this thread. It is a poor photo taken on cut down camera gun film and was taken at Sealand in the early 30’s and has not seen the light of day since, but I did loan the neg to A.J.Jackson some years ago.

John

Even between serial number batches there is a mix of a/c sans headrest. A note on the drawings in the Air britain SE.5 file just says “headrest often removed”

John