Jeffry Fontaine

I hope you add ALARM missiles to the mix to really make it look the part.

The Historic Naval Ships Association has an on-line library containing various Navy Manuals and other Documents. One of these is a reference pamphlet describing various types of ammunition, projectiles, bombs, and missiles that were in use or under development during WWII and shortly after. You can access the documents page from the link above or use this link to go directly to the page There are several documents pertaining to ordnance including on on British Rocket Projectiles that you may want to browse though later. But I digress, here is the link and the title for the document you want to review, it is titled U.S. Explosive Ordnance, Ordnance Pamphlet 1664, 1947, which There are several images and a rather detailed description contained in that pamphlet for the 4.5" Rocket Launcher.

How about a 1/48th scale MBDA (Matra) Durandal and the BLU-107/B USAF version with the strong-back adapter? Since Hasegawa has been kind enough to offer them in one of their 1/72nd scale F-111 kits and Heller has the French version in their 1/72nd scale weapons set, it would be nice to see both of these weapons offered in a larger scale such as 1/48th and 1/32nd.

Mike, that was the same image I first encountered. It is far too small to be of much use save for a quick colour comparison. I just found a larger image of the same Golf Bomb museum display this link: http://www.rhodesianservices.org/user/imag...9-05-07-008.JPG This link will open up the description for the Golf Bomb which includes a nice diagram of the internal arrangement and components http://www.rhodesianservices.org/user/imag...ombbackdrop.jpg

RhAF Canberra on display at an airshow. Are the cage like things in the foreground possibly the Alpha Bomb containers for the Canberra bomb bay? The images on that page appear to be much better in detail here is the link to the page containing the images: http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nos...re-airshow.html

Thanks. I had already checked that image out earlier this morning thanks to another member providing the link on WHIF. Great display but the finer details are as always just out of reach. Really need to know what the actual diamter and length of the weapon is. All I have so far is 1.0 m for the fuze extension and nothing else save for the weight.

Other than a couple of wordy descriptions on the weapons and a rather poor quality image (very small format) there appears to be little else available on-line to show what these weapons looked like. While the Golf Bomb was carried by the Hunters and a smaller version of that same weapon design was carried by the Cessna-Reims 337 Skymasters there appears to be little else known about the Golf Bomb. The one image I have shows a bomb that for all intents and purposes could have started life as an acetelyne gas bottle to which fins and a one meter standoff device were attached. Nothing yet has surfaced on-line to show what the smaller version of this weapon looks like. The Alpha bomb is slightly more photogenic in that it was further developed by the SAAF for carriage in the CB-470 munitions dispenser which looks a lot like the French Belouga munitions dispenser after gaining some weight. So does anyone happen to have an image, drawing, or both in their personal references that can be shared with the rest of us to show in slightly better detail what the Golf Bomb looks like and the dispenser that was developed for the Alpha Bomb that was carried internally on the Canberra? TIA, jjf

Do you have any decent drawings or images of the Golf Bomb in your references? The two images I have found on-line were not very helpful.

Instead of adding a new topic I will just ask the question here. What are the three cylindrical objects in the Revell Atlantic kit that occupy the aft section of the bomb bay? The two torpedo shapes are quite obvious but the three cylinder shapes with a truncated cone at one end are a mystery. I was thinking they could be depth bombs but most ordnance of that type requires some kind of fin for stabilization during the drop. So the next guess is that these things are perhaps life raft containers for an ASR mission. Anyone care to hazard another proposal as to what these things are?

Not sure if these will be of any use to but it never hurts to try. Here are a pair of links to images from ORDATA on-line at http://maic.jmu.edu/ordata/ that could be of some use to you: U.K. BOMB, 540-LB, MC, MK 1 & 2, & BOMB, PRACTICE, 540-LB, MK 1 (drawing showing external features of the bomb body) U.K. BOMB, 540-LB, MC, MK 1 & 2, & BOMB, PRACTICE, 540-LB, MK 1 (drawing showing internal features of the bomb body)

Oliver, Thank you for the quick response. Money is the only real obstacle that would keep me from acquiring that book. Much as I would like to it is out of my reach at the moment, thanks to the current economic situation and not having a job.

Anyone have an image or three showing a Super Frelon with machine guns mounted? Especially interested in the mounts and how they are attached to the deck and walls of the aircraft. Thanks,

(Revell of Germany, 1/seventy-something scale HAS model) Image from the 6. Modellbauausstellung der Modellbaufreunde Siegen, 3. Mai 2009. Courtesy of Modellversium.

Just received a PM from a member which made me realize I had not mentioned the preference for a particular scale on this query. My interest in these wing-tip mounted tanks was for a pair of 1/48th scale Trumpeter Wyvern S.4 kits that I acquired a couple of years back.

Thank you for the quick responses. Any chance of posting that general arrangement drawing to this topic? I thought the wing-tip tanks were a little unusual considering the performance of the Wyvern with a load of any kind launching from a carrier. Land based operations might have been different with a longer runway to take advantage of. But for a WHIF, it is always good to add wing-tip tanks to keep the purists guessing. Now where can I find a couple pairs of spare Venom tanks? :^)