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    Mosquito propeller question

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted · Edited by brewerjerry

    23 minutes ago, Troy Smith said:

    Very rare on wartime British Mosquitoes, used on the NF.XV,  very occasionally on night bombers,  but post war was standard on the Sea Mosquito and the Swedish NF.19 (J.30) 

     

    see https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234945234-mosquitos-on-hms-striker/

     

     

    Can't find the link to the site which had a line up of Mosquito bombers, one of which had 4 blade props

    Hi

     

            might be the photo on this linked page ? 

       middle mossie with dark spinners has four blade props 

     

    http://aircrewremembered.com/morgan-john-perenera.html

     

         cheers

           jerry 

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    Halifax DT971, 10 Sq crashed 17 April 1943 - pic and some questions

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted · Edited by brewerjerry

    30 minutes ago, Troy Smith said:

    Or raised with a slightly faster aircraft?

    The whole discussion of bomber armament is really a long complex subject, but there had been studies showing that statically dropping all the armament would have resulted in less losses, as the planes would have been faster and carried a greater load, and had less crew.

    The tail turret was the most important as well.

    Studies also showed that the use of 0.50 cal guns was a great improvement, but only a few Lancaster got the Rose tail turret that mounted these.

    Poor discipline with electronics didn't help, like the myth that keeping IFF on could affect German radar controlled searchlights, and later with German devices which could home in on H2S transmissions, Naxos IIRC.... 

    Of the Merlin engined types, so much so these were withdrawn from bomber duties in early 1944. 

    The Hercules engined B.III/VI/VIII did much to redeem the Halifax operationally.

    Hi 

         Thanks for the detailed reply, never thought of that

      i suppose the mossie proves that theory 

       cheers

          jerry 

    A Lincoln on the cheap

    in Aircraft Cold War

    Posted

    Hi

         apologies slightly off topiic 

     

        I like tbe old airfix mag conversions,  majority of my builds are " models " , not " scale replicas "  so in my case the airfix articles are great for those rare expensive kit subjects 

       

      don't think my old eyesight or hobby budget would let me do scale replicas anyway 

       cheers

          jerry 

        

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    luftwaffe photos site unusual 109

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted · Edited by brewerjerry

    2 hours ago, junglierating said:

    Wow Jerry you are going to be popular it's not Russian its Ukrainian ....tut tut you must keep up with current affairs 🙄😀

    Hi

        corrected now 👍

     

        Always had trouble with countries when they are/were east of the old wall

     

        as to current affairs hopefully i was not seeing into the future  😕

     

       cheers

           jerry 

     

       

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    1:48 HK halifax

    in The Rumourmonger

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    3 hours ago, KFS-miniatures said:

    Don't want to spoil the party, but my friend who works for HK Models, didn't hear anything about such project...

    Hi

        Ok

           so it seems to be an error by blackbird models or hannants 

      thanks for the info 

         cheers

           jerry

    1:48 HK halifax

    in The Rumourmonger

    Posted

    Hi

        the hannants site refers the stirling to the sanger kit 

     

     

    quote from hannants site

     

    100 Group Short Stirling Conversion (designed be used with Sanger kits)

    Blackbird Models

    BMA48008

     

         cheers

            jerry 

    1:48 HK halifax

    in The Rumourmonger

    Posted · Edited by brewerjerry

    Hi

         read this comment on the future blackbird conversion on hannants 

     

    Blackbird Models BMA48004

     

    Description:

    100 Group Handley-Page Halifax Conversion (designed be used with Hong Kong Models and Fonderie Models kits)

     

     

    https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/BMA48004?result-token=PH6g4

     

     

    so blackbird think HK is doing a 1:48 halifax 

     

    cheers

       jerry 

     

     

    ps 

          wonder if there will be a 1:32 halifax first 

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    Best Lanc?

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    Hi

        I like the matchbox one

     

         also the 1:72 frog one, bit harder to find now

     

       i don't know any of the accuracy issues of either as not my field of research 

        cheers

           jerry

    Blenheim's with field mod of 20mm cannon

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    Hi

        on page 3 of this thread it gives a serial for a twin 20mm cannon blenheim

     

    extract from the thread 

     

    L6787 (twin 20mm cannon trials)

     

    of interest ? 

     

    L6594 (performance trials and then 37mm COW cannon trials)

     

     

    and another extact from that thread 

     

      " From Roy C Nesbit's book Coastal Command in Action 1939-1945
    - caption (can't scan at present, with scanner buried under Blenheim books...perhaps later):
    "A gun pack beneath the fuselage of a Blenheim IVF was modified by Coastal Command in January 1941 to take two Hispano 20-mm cannons. However, the normal armament in the pack was four .303-in Browning machine-guns."
    It's not the regular gun pack housing a pair of 20mm Hispanos, it's custom built with cylindrical fairings for each individual Hispano. For those who are familiar with British archival photograph numbers, it's Ref: AIR 15/560. I can't tell from the angle if it's a Mk.IVf or a Mk.I (perhaps L6787).  " 

     

     

     

     

    http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=27561&page=3

     

       cheers

         jerry 

     

    Blenheim's with field mod of 20mm cannon

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted · Edited by brewerjerry

    Hi

        Some useful link i think 

     

    https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022951

     

    https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/180364-extra-armament-for-the-blenheim/

     

    http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=38475

     

    http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=12191

     

    http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=6835

     

    (the russian book mentioned in the last post is unfortunately in storage )

     

      cheers

        jerry 

     

     

     

    Focke Wulf 190 A3 / A4 Reconnaissance

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted · Edited by brewerjerry

    Hi All 

              Great info and great interest especially the profile of black 10

    as a future project of mine is to model black 11, A-4 , 0694 and also black 9,  A-3 , 0367 

      and so far i found no photos of 11 or 9 

        cheers

            jerry 

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