Any expert able to comment about the aircraft having counter-rotating props,both `inwards ` and `outwards` …?

Usually done to counteract torque which may cause the aircraft to veer one way or the other on takeoff. Most common method is just to stick in a bootfull of rudder.

Nope, Allison.

Good to see it back in the air.

Hopefully we’ll get a ‘Kermie Cam’ of it in the future!

Cheers

Paul

Kermit has posted a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE6G7zO7WgI&feature=em-subs_digest

Also has the advantage of not having to pay licensing fees to Handley-Page who owned the patent on slats.

Maybe, even then it is a bit of a stretch…

…how many (lost) Lancasters with 50cal Rose tail-turrets…..plus 1941 dated 303 ammunition?

I realise that it is perfectly possible for an aircraft shot-down in 1944 /1945 to be carrying 1941 (or earlier) ammunition but how likely is it? Maybe not so unlikely; Bomber Command aircraft probably didn’t fire much of the ammunition that they carried!

Quite possible for 1941 dated ammo to be carried on a late war aircraft. I own a couple of .303 Lee Enfield service rifles. A good few years ago now, around 2003, I acquired some surplus Mk7 ball ammo of mixed dates. Quite a few of those were dated 1941/42. So clearly they survived the war without being used. They still went bang!