I don’t think they’re stumped James, just being too busy digging through books to reply I guess! 😀

Anyway, all my guesses where shot down in the first few posts, so I’ll leave it to the experts now……………………………. come on….. anyone???? :rolleyes:

RAF oriented fleet? In that case you’ll need the Anson and Hunter from this guy as well: DG Designs, his creations can be downloaded from Avsim and Flightsim. I’ve also added another site for British airliners to my post above.

I was leafing through ‘British Aero Engines’ by Alec Lumsden earlier tonight and there’s a photo in there of an early Hurricane with the hand crank installed. Also an account of the author of how he hand-cranked a Kestrel. I’m sure the early Merlins therefore used the same system. I could look it up of course but I’ve just stored that book away again and it’ll take me 10 minutes to get it again……. another time!

What is the situation with a warbird registered in one country and making a trip to another for a show ?

That’s a different question, but basically as long as you’ve got a ‘normal’ CofA (Certificate of Airworthiness) you can fly an airplane anywhere, as long as you follow local rules (equipment, procedures and such). For airshow flying each country has its own rules regarding display authorisations and such which you will need to follow.

If you don’t have a ‘normal’ CofA then it gets complicated. The FAA ‘experimental’ category for example only allows flying over the USA within a set of rules, and if you want to go somewhere else you need to get special permissions from each country you overfly and land in. Expect more trouble if you wish to attend an airshow!

http://www.tidetech.com/fighterfactory/catalina.html

Formerly at North Weald until last summer

This particular Cat seems to be able to operate with its nose turret installed, I’ve looked up why and it turns out that this airplane is certified a bit different. Basically it boils down to this: during the 50’s and 60’s a number of companies have modified Cats for use on the civil register, and from this a number of different subtypes have evolved. Some of these were conversions to carry cargo only under CAR 4a rules, others were passenger conversions under CAR 3 and CAR 4a. NC9521C was one of the latter, and is still registered in the ‘normal’ category, as opposed to many warbirds which are registered as ‘experimental’, as a type ’28-5ACF’ (see here, search for ‘9521C’ ). Now you can look up the Type Certificate Data Sheet for this type (click here ) and this explains that this is a Cat which has been modified to carry passengers and cargo by Steward-Davis Incorporated, and the best part is that this specific modification actually allows the installation of the nose turret, provided that ‘the turret revolving mechanism is removed or made inoperative and the opening between the turret and the nose are faired over’ (page 4, A (2) ). Max operating weight is restricted to 27,000 pounds but at least your Cat will look like a true military specimen this way!

Compare the TCDS above to a few others, have a look here and type ‘PBY’ in the search box on the left.

Edit: just to add that this trick will only work on a Cat which has previously been ‘civilised’ to a config that allows the turret to be carried. If you restore a Cat which has never gone through this process, or change it to a configuration that doesn’t fall under the limitations of the TCDS you will probably end up in the ‘experimental’ category again.

Anyone out there using Mozilla Firefox as their browser and who can tell me the trick to attaching files to a post. If I click the “Manage attachments”button nothing happens.

If you look at the bottom right corner then a small exclamation mark thingy probably appears after clicking that button. Click once on that and you can then tell the dialog that appears to allow pop-up windows from this site. That should sort it. It is probably also accessible via ‘Tools’ – ‘Pop-up manager’ or something like that.

#4 a Bonanza I think, the red one looks like a Hunter to me (#9)
#7 could be a T-6