Just Jane. A great project.

[Oldhippy]

It was a 1000lb bomb.

 

[Dirk]

In any case, you'd have to be crazy to want to complete three tours as above.

I don't think he actually wanted to do three tours.

 

[Dirk]

It was a 1000lb bomb.

You're out by a considerable margin. It was a 12000lb bomb.

 

[Oldhippy]

Got the bomb bit right. I did wonder if I had it right in truth.

 

[Cycleops]

It was a 1000lb bomb.

I meant why was so named. It was a tall narrow chest of drawers.

 

[winjim]

It was what Johnnie Walker dropped on the Tirpitz.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've been to the museum, it was June 2004, sadly I've not been since
I will take my father-in-law there

It's incredible just how close you can get, as the Merlins are fired up in turn

You can, if you want to pay, have a ride, during the taxy runs
https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/lancaster-taxy-rides/taxy-ride-experience-1.htm

 

[Oldhippy]

I went to Duxford once a day after the huge air show. All the planes were being made ready to return home or country but the owners were very chatty and I got up close to some iconic aircraft and allowed to look inside. I keep meaning to do it again at some point. Beat the huge crowds on the show days.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I wish someone would rebuild a Halifax (and a Beaufighter). Apart from being able to carry bigger bombs, I don't see what the Lancaster had over the Halifax. The Halifax did not share a design flaw of the Lancaster: escape hatches too small for big men with parachutes to bale out of.

 

[Oldhippy]

One of my favourite quirky aircraft is the Beaufighter. Stirling did a good job early on too. I seem to remember reading there are none of those left at all.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Stirlings had some major problems compared to the Halifax and Lanc
The bomb bay could take a fair weight of bombs but a main spar divided it so that the biggest bomb it could carry was far smaller

Also, due to the requirements when it was designed it's maximum ceiling was quite a bit lower than the other 3 engine bombers - which made it more vulnerable to flack - and made bombing rather nerve racking (by which I mean EVEN more) because they were bombing in the same area as the others - but lower - hence the bombs from the Halifaxs and Lancasters were falling (hopefully) past them on their bombing run
There were a lot of reports of Stirlings being hit by bombs from other aircraft

A the low ceiling was due to a rather short but deep wing rather than a long narrow wing - which resulted in the low ceiling - but also a wonderful turning performance - I have heard that it could out turn a spitfire!!!

Oh - and they also had a habit of being found with the undercarrige collapsed after being parked for a while - which was inconvenient!!

They were very unpolular with high command and had to be withdrawn from bombing raids after a while due to the above problems

 

[Oldhippy]

It always amazes me the amount of combined knowledge all the CC'ers have.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It always amazes me the amount of combined knowledge all the CC'ers have.

I'm full of knowledge

mostly useless

if you want someone to configure and boot a BULL MOD400 DPS6 computer then I know everything needed
of course - they were totally unreliable, hardly anyone ever used them and they became totally useless as soon as Year 2000 started

but I can still remember how to configure and program them

and, of course, loads of other stuff

how you change the time on our current over - not so sure

 

[Drago]

For all that, the WWII bomber I'd like to meet and nosey around is the B29.

 

[Cycleops]

Talking of post war bombers I got a shock when I looked around a B-52 I think it was at Duxford.
The fuselage looked like a old garden shed. Apparently it's because the pressurisation straightens it out once at altitude.

Still in service today and for the foreseeable future.