Try this link and story.
http://www.ipmstoronto.com/articles/aircraft/gannet/Index.htm

At the bottom of the article. If it is correct, then it was Shorts that did the one-off mod, but the A/C didn’t quite get to the Falklands. Must have been quite a sight, if it is real….I don’t trust everything I find on the internet.

You CAN fit a P38 in a twenty footer if you are not the one who has to put it back together!:dev2:

I was at Kermit Weeks shop a couple years ago. He had bought a P-38 from somewhere-S America I think and the idiot shippers snipped the tail booms in half in order to fit their transport!!!

Guess they are easier to take apart that way!

Probably work as well as the USMC and USA using l-4s and L-5s in ground attack roles! One pilot claimed several German Armored vehicles by mounting bazookas. In the Pacific, some pilots where known to do ground attack by dropping a grenade in a glass Mason Jar with the pin pulled. When it hit the ground it went live!. The last German A/C shot down in the ETO, a Fi 156 Storch, was shot down by a L-4 Grasshopper with their 45’s!

Don’t count the Moth short. Though slow, it was a small maneuverable target! Determined pilots do crazy things and some of them even lived through it!

Do we have enough interest in doing this sort of thing to perhaps start a camera on this side of the pond (UC/Canada) and perhaps one Down Under? Sounds like a lot of fun but postage back and forth international would just get silly.
If we have enough on the list interested we could pass one around and then have the final product scanned and posted? (or are you trying to keep it a south UK Club kind-of thing? 😉

Perhaps we will get pics of something other than Spits and Lancs!:dev2:

We had our own brush with bad wind on Christmas Day with a cold front pushing through. Embry Riddle Aeronautical University here in Florida lost nearly 50 aircraft (mostly Cessna’s) when a f2 twister came through. Aircraft and high winds on the ground are NOT a good mix.

You can’t tie them down well enough for high winds! They just want to fly.

Same sound issue here, had to crank it wayyyyyyy up. That much damage to a steel drum, imagine the impact on soft aluminum under the stress of hard aerobatic maneuvering. One shot, one kill! Or at least one hit one kill.

I’m not sure I would have wanted to be standing so close to 60year old ammo that had possibly been damage in a weapon, that had potentially been damaged and fire the thing off. But it sure was fun!

Good thing it was a US team. If it had been a UK team they would have immediately had to turn it over to be destroyed by the nannies. I know you CAN have legal registered MG’s in the States, but what about 20mm’s?

Anyone notice in the pic on the side of the A/C of the Memphis Belle Movie the 1200 lb crew load stenciled on? That is only 120 per crewman?! Am I missing something? Or were the aircrew THAT under fed with powdered eggs?!