Short Stirling visiting western Canada

[brewerjerry]

Hi 

     every now and then a photo turns up somewhere that amazes me

  

  this time on facebook the RCAF Boundary Bay group 

 

   Sorry dont know how to link to the page 

 

  found photos here also 

 

 

 

 

http://silverhawkauthor.com/canadian-warplanes-3-short-stirling_745.html

 

 

from the page with the photo 

 

 

"Western Air Command H.Q. Air Intelligence Reports.
for week ending ?. (Between the 10th and 23rd June 1944)
General:
No. 5 OTU, Boundary Bay visited by Group Captain Niblett, RAF and party in a new Stirling Mk. 3." 

 

 

 

  LK 589 a MkIV, apparently it visited boundary bay and Pat Bay before flying back across canada to the UK 

 

  Now i know how i am finishing that stirling MKIV model 

 

    cheers

       jerry 

Edited June 8, 2021 by brewerjerry

[brewerjerry]

Bump found a link to photos 

  cheers J 

[Nachtwulf]

I know nothing about the Sterling. Does it have the same wing as the Sunderland? I had never noticed how broad the chord was before seeing the picture in the link above.

[spitfire]

I just get a Forbidden when i click on the link.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[alt-92]

Nice to see those collector rings in different variants used - some single, some double. 

[Graham Boak]

Not the same wing: the Sunderland wing is larger than the maximum span of 100 ft required by B12/36.

 

There was only one standard of collector ring, but I suspect that we are seeing rings of different ages.

[dogsbody]

4 hours ago, Graham Boak said:

There was only one standard of collector ring, but I suspect that we are seeing rings of different ages.

 

There was a slight difference in collector rings: there was the earlier one and the later one with the extra bit on the front to blow air over the ring to cut down on the hot glow, 

to help hide aircraft that flew at night.

 

 

 

 

 

Chris

[Graham Boak]

Indeed, but you don't see the former on the Stirling. or at least production ones.  They will have all been the later standard.

 

Going further, I suspect that there were modified versions of both of these, not counting the differences for each basic engine.  But not really relevant here?

[alt-92]

18 minutes ago, Graham Boak said:

But not really relevant here?

Does that matter?

 

What I noticed was this:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205188248 

 

 

Clearly visible front baffle on a later model - hedgehog exhaust

 

 

compared to this: 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210166

 

 

and this:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205123799

 

 

No clearly visible front baffle on early versions -smooth exhaust. 

 

It's just an observation. No more. 

[dogsbody]

In the first photo the alt-92 posted, you can see the baffle on the inboard engine, but there isn't one on the outboard engine.

 

 

 

 

Chris

[brewerjerry]

Hi

    figured out how to link the original photo mentioned

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/805861913399811/permalink/823640101621992/

 

cheers

   jerry 

 

[dogsbody]

1 hour ago, brewerjerry said:

Hi

    figured out how to link the original photo mentioned

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/805861913399811/permalink/823640101621992/

 

cheers

   jerry 

 

 

At the top of this page, from Harold A. Skaarup's site, you can see a few other vies of this Stirling: http://silverhawkauthor.com/canadian-warplanes-3-short-stirling_745.html

 

 

 

Chris