But I’m saying the model is wrong!
The Upkeep Lancasters had a single Vickers Gun mounted in the position originally used for the FN64 turret, but in no way is this the same as saying they had the FN64 fitted.
Two quite seperate things.
Ok, bangs head against table….yes it has sunk in now:)
They did have a gun in a mount underneath-but it was not twin .303Brownings.
I understand;) …..and thanks!
Thanks for the info. So the model is not really wrong. We can say that some, if not all, of the special Lancasters of 617 used for the Dams raid, had this FN64 installation.
If not a help for aircraft model makers, this snippet remains a help for those just generally interested in the variations and modifications of type.
Working on getting better. I had a severe heart attack two weeks ago, I am waiting for a bypass operation within the next 6 weeks!
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I met Bob Stanford Tuck at North Weald many years ago, I was hoping to speak to certain former Luftwaffe pilot by the name of A Galland who was with him. but I blotted my copy book by treading on Mr Gallands foot:o
I used to know Witold (Lanny) Lanowski too, a great fellow:)
This whole ‘urban exploration’ trend, I find really annoying. Two slightly hungry Dobermans on the loose, and keeping watch, would put a stop to that methinks;)
I spied her too!,
running her engine and tucked away between the workshop and the M11 on Thursday at about 11:40 Am, sounded bootiful:)
A Link to your very helpful site, has been added to the ‘links’ page on ‘Wartime Airfields’ Nils:)
You can open a free photo-hosting service such as photobucket where you can upload the image. you have three choices for showing the image, this is done by ‘copy and paste’ of the image using the ‘image code’ after uploading it from your computer to the photobucket album you have created, just highlight the code, and copy and paste it into your reply on this board.
http://www.photobucket.com
Other sites are available as well eg: imageshack, but photobucket is very easy to use indeed.
If you want to resize the image download Pixresizer from http://www.pixresizer.com.
Have fun and show us your images!
The main Idustrial estate near the M40 junction at High Wycombe feature streets named after WW2 aircraft, not that I am aware of any actual connection with said names to the area.
And again, a small housing estate near Biggin Hill features the same, also,Lieutenant Ellis Way, just off the A10 near Jct 25, is named after the pilot of a 391st BG B-17 that crashed there in 1944. I’m sure there are many more namings of both aircraft and crew members dotted around all over the UK.
Moggy!, dont tell me your torch has gone out for a certain young filly from the BOB film;)
Was the Lanc PA474, or a cut and paste job from the Dambusters:p The latter methinks. A pretty weak plot with the bouncing bomb idea, could have been any other sort of weapon. Undermines poor old BW’s idea a little eh?, oh well, only a TV program.
Prince Charles had one on his mantlepiece at Highgrove House years ago. That too was live and had to be ‘rendered safe by detonation’. I am also under the impression that there was no way to safely defuse the sods.
I have mental images of certain forum members cycling flat out to get to mountnessing windmill for the stated time;) . I have a urge to go myself just to see who actually turns up……but I wont….honest:D
/ In the voice of Ruth Archer………Ohhhh Noooooo!:D
Philip,
I have added a link to the petition to the home page of my website ‘Wartime airfields’
with a short explanation of what it is about.
Good luck.