Gooday All
In the Pakastan War, the CIA civilians are running the war (office hours) and their is no risk to them personally. Bit like the civilians working in the manufacturing entities referred to elsewhere in the thread.

I doubt that those, who had the job of removing the dead bodies from Supermarine’s factory, after the 1940 raid, would agree with that rather smug assessment. Many people died, during WWII, while working in factories; it was no sinecure.
Edgar

In the pictures below am I right in assuming the complete harness is from the 50’s. The partial one seems to be off an adjustable Sutton type, not sure what era

The only wartime RAF aircraft (that I’ve been able to find) with the quick-release-type harness, was the Tempest; it’s illustrated in the A.P. I think that it would have been tan, in colour, just like the Sutton; as far as I can tell the blue version was post-war.
The Sutton (in the Spitfire, certainly) lasted until just post-war, with the quick-release QS/ZB harnesses arriving in late 45/46. The Sutton was invented at the end of the First World War, but was largely “forgotten,” soon after. When more powerful, and highly manouverable, a/c arrived, and pilots started to lose their seating, it was brought back into use.
Edgar

According to the photos, and illustrations, in the SAM Publications book, solely on the FB.VI, there were two buttons on the stick; the top one was for guns, with the lower for the bombs. Bomb selector switches were on the panel. ISBN, for the book, is 978-1-906959-08-1.
Edgar

[QUOTE=Creaking Door;1602510]Strange really when they’re government owned but there is an element of that attitude with the BBC sometimes. /QUOTE]
Channel 4 is not government owned, nor is it part of the BBC (which, also, is not government-owned.)
Edgar

How long did that take?:eek:

About 15 minutes (they were only about 6″ diameter covers.)
Edgar

The ORB doesn’t help much, since Savard flew (mostly) NV416 “J”, but also flew NV422 “C” 29-1-45; NT890 “F” 5-2-45, and NV292 “O”, on 9-2-45, and that was the a/c in which he went missing on that day.
Edgar

I also read somewhere that the slight bulge over the Merlin 266 intercooler on the top engine cowl of the Mk.XVI caused slight pitch instability at high speed.

In fact that bulge was on the IX, to clear the coolant pipework, which was interfered with by the filler point, in the cowling, for the 266’s engine-mounted header tank. Presumably to save production time/difficulties, the same cowling was used on both Marks, so it was simply bulged out of the way, so it didn’t matter which airframe had it. Quill did mention having trouble with one aircraft (can’t remember which Mark,) which had a larger-than-usual bulge.
Edgar