Someone’s forging Stirlings? Whatever next? Fake Hampdens?

Unaccustomed as I am to posting here…….I’m a bit perturbed by the whiff of schoolmarmism I’m getting, as ex-mob, though not the vintage of the BofB crowd, I’d expect to see a bit of the spirit of the RAF here i.e. banter, going off at tangents and light taking of the pi….. in the finest traditions of the service, as well as the well informed comments – let’s not lose our senses of humour……

Anyway, everyone knows the key element to winning the BofB was the NAAFI waggon.

Boulton Paul named two bombers after small villages on the North Norfolk coast – Overstrand and Sidestrad of course – to say they are one-horse towns would be a lie, they share a horse betwen them and even then it’s only rented, and stuffed.

God knows what they were thinking of…….just sorry the BP Six Mile Bottom never caught on

Same old same old, nearly as good as the forum member that ‘what iffed’ the channel was mysteriously drained during the BoB.

German forces weren’t ten feet tall, by 1943 they were on their arses, prior to that the Luftwaffe post BoB was in a shocking state, pilot training got shorter and shorter, the number of high scoring stars that some are so enamoured of these days were dwindling, aircraft types were becoming more and more obsolete, and the wonder weapons weren’t as good as the propaganda would have you believe. This spiralled further down as the years progressed.

Meanwhile the RAF was getting stronger, better and improved weapons and aircraft, training times expanded.
Re-run of the Battle of Britain?

Wargame it and see if the Luftwaffe ever win without the intervention of space aliens or the wishful thinking of those who see all things Nazi as ‘cool’

Hi Galcom.

Any time period would be good, I had dealings with both in the late eighties but it would be investing to see how they developed

Regards

Very nice,

I can see the ad campain now

‘Take two bottles into the hangar?
‘I just want to wash my Beau and go’

I know some amazing modifications result from war, carrying two Tallboys is incredible, but two Grand Slams…

The other thing to consider is the safety height to drop the things…..two Grand Slams would mean the B-29 would struggle to be outside the blast wave and either option, dropping one at a time or in salvo, I think would be equally problematic, a good chance that the pressure wave from one bomb wold trigger an explosion of the other, or the effect of dropping one on its own or two at the same time could cause the shock wave to destroy the aircraft.
A quick search of tinterweb gives a safe drop height of a Tallboy as 18,000ft, so I’m guessing a bit more for a Grand Slam

I think someone here has said that SOC dates were somtimes just a bit of admin, and that the aircraft could have been dumped a while before, this might not be the case post-war though – unit F540 might help