Hi Dave I have this book. Both this drawing and the Wapiti drawing are awfully flawed. The cockpit is actually too far forwards and it’s too wide. The rudder chord is too narrow (Wapiti same). But thanks for the thought.

Chris. Thank you. A perfect explanation. The Wapiti wasn’t pretty before they added that canopy…

I have over time had the opportunity to measure every frame of the Wallace and I’ve drawn this up in my computer. I’ve also traced a Wapiti tech drawing and overlaid them to see where they touch, so to speak and from frame one to frame 10 they are virtually identical. There are three types of wing, two differing wing staggers, two different u/c rakes, two tailplanes and elevators with different chords, (DH 9 and Westland metal built) on Wapiti’s alone. Not to mention the engines.

It’s my belief that the fin and rudder did not change from when it was sorted out on the first production example up to and including the Wallace, despite what several authors have inferred in well known tomes. The rudders have all been drawn too narrow and the Wapiti fuselages too Long in model drawings.

Although the overall difference in length between a Wapiti IIa (Jupiter VIII) is 20″, the difference in fuselage length between Frame 1 and the stern post is 24″.(The supposedly missed out 2 ft) this 24″ is the difference between the tail plane leading edge fittings of the Wapiti at Frame 10 and those same fittings found on the lengthened fuselage of the Wallace at Frame 11.

I am also positive that the only long fuselage Wapiti V the RAF had was the former G-AAWA and no production Wapiti V’s had long fuselages. The Wapiti V or VII, G-AAWA (or J9728 or PV.6 or P6 or the Everest expedition G-ACBR or finally K3488 as a Wallace) was the Joker in the pack being the original ‘Triggers broom’ as it metamorphosed several times. I think that it probably ended up as the Westland Westminster.;)

John

Gentlemen. Again thank you.

Chris; I had seen that picture before and I tried to work out how the pilot gets in and out. I’ve come to the conclusion that the pilot was issued the aeroplane and then they nailed him in for the winter. 🙂 . Unlike the Wallace it doesn’t slide and I can’t see any obvious hinges and it appears to taper as per the Green drawing. The area where the Canadian Wapiti has the flat is where the normal Wapiti radio was sited. The Green drawing is in Vol 27 No 2 April 2005.

Schneiderman ; Thank you, these numbers will be invaluable and thank you for producing your book on the “trophy” aeroplanes.

John