Bomb rack hook and latch assembly, to which the bomb shackles were attached.
All the best,
PB

Thanks for that.
I knew I was sure that it wasn’t the shackle itself. saves me looking for it now? happy days.
Hope this all helps you lankytim?

B-17E’s and earlier had slimmer (non paddle blade) props

Hi ALL,

can anyone on the forum help me identify them?

Cowl gill or front cowl ring support bracket (some of the bracket is missing).

Part of a tank support strap.

I have a funny feeling, this is the hook of the bomb winch assembly (2 winches per assembly). The only thing that throws me on this is that until I am able to check, I didn’t think that these hooks actually had the non slip-off catch on them, they were just a plain hook.
It does not fit the bill as a bomb shackle used by american made bombers.

The Aphrodite project B-17s were open cockpit.

I think you will find that only one aircraft, Gremlin Gus, was ever given this treatment.
I have never seen any other reference to any others having been modified in this way.
I am of course willing to be shown otherwise.

This would seem to be the right thread to ask, Like my dad, how many trainees would be receiving their training at Predannack at one go?
Could I take it there would be intakes at various stages through their training, say half a dozen or so?

The other thing is I know my dad trained on Ansons, but I would imagine other training aircraft would be utilised, so what would the likely number according to aircraft type be on station charge.

I know this is quite a sizeable question, but it’s something i never asked him.

It is clear that the current administration is completely disfunctional. After the granny tax, the pasty tax, the church repair tax and the charity tax fiascos, the all enveloping omni-shambles is too big to ignore. We are being governed by people who are simply not up to the job.

What has any of this political drivel got to do with CVF unles your some kind of lefty fanboy.
It was labour (aka Gordon Browns administration) that ordered the carriers and it was labour (aka Gordon Brown as chancellor) that raided the old age pensioners pensions a number of years ago by taxing them in the first place a number of years ago.

They are all as bad as each other, so don’t just blame the current administration on their own.
I view the political class in a much lower light than I do the working class.

I think we can take it as read that if the CVF hulls are not fitted with cats and traps at the building stage, then there is no chance at all that they will be retrofitted with them 20 years down the line. It simply will not happen.

You are obviously forgetting.
When they were ordered with the basis that the design had them so that they could be fitted with cat’s and traps at a later date if the requirement was decided that this be the case.
Who’s to say we’ll actually see them in service based on the kind of quick throwaway assesment you have made, even years before they ever put to sea.

Seems riduculous taking it down from the roof.

You are forgetting. Very soon they will be removing all suspended aircraft for rope testing/replacement and testing of the actual suspension points.

A good opportunity if it achieves what they want to do.