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This is very interesting, thanks for showing them. When Smith got to redesigning the Spitfire, he certainly simplified a lot of the structures didn't he.

Interesting --- does this mean that the thick spacer in between the lug plates, runs fully across the fuselage, lug to lug ?

Ooooooh! I see what you mean now --- they moved frame 5 further forward compared to a Spitfire's frame 5.

He He! I've got that image too, in the Morgan/Shacklady book, page 497. But as you say, it's a 'service' manual drawing so what was between the two fuselage plates in the bulkhead, isn't of interest to the fitter putting the wings on. Now if you flip the page over to 499, there's a very nicely...

Interestingly, the wing for it was discovered on a farm roughly 30km south of my place in Alberta. Lots of work to be done to it though, it includes the wingfold half at each end and from spar to spar. Probably only good for reverse engineering.

I would have it swing down like the two examples in the Marconi advert Tom. The position I have it in the photos, shows it in the stowed position.

I can envision an arrangement like the ones in the second row down which is in this Marconi advert. I've been working on a theoretical model of the idea.

Well done Tony, and congratulations.

You could add the Merlin 140 to the list, this was a contra-prop engine of 2,080hp and two of them powered the Short Sturgeon.

Couple of photos a friend gave me after he got to see it a few years ago. He said there was more of it but couldn't get to them to take pics.

There is an article in a recent Air-Britain Aviation World about this project. Towards the end of the war, VL proposed to reverse engineer a Mosquito but use DB-605 engines. Their plan was to buy two flyable Mosquito's captured by the Germans using one to reverse engineer, and the other for...

The Griffon powered 'DH.98 Mosquito', was the DH.102. It was bigger than the DH.98 and according to what's written, was a "scaled down" DH.101. There wouldn't have been very much in common though, between the DH.98 and DH.101/102. I've been trying to make a model of both of these using a copy of...

Also, if anyone is keeping tabs on your electricity utility bill, if you're finding you can't pay the bill now, just wait until governments wake up to the fact gasoline/petrol taxes aren't rolling in like they were ----

I'm pretty sure they're both 1000lbers ---

I'd ask Chris if he has one in stock, it'd be way cheaper than that and that's including postage too. That's how I got my copy ---

Looking at that bomb load comparison chart, I note that the Vulcan is only showing 21 bombs (3x7). There's this UTube video that shows a short bit at the end they're loading clips with 10 bombs, so 30 max. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOmPJOT-wUg

There's an exercise going on that involves 17 nations down under. A report from its activities says that two RAAF F-35's ""shot down"" six RSAF F-15's in one exercise operation ----- and shot them down before the F-15's even knew they were there.

There's a page with minimal info on the C-5C in the Squadron/Signal C-5 Galaxy in Action (No.201), page 28 with a couple of photos, and a diagram on page 33 showing the inboard side profile.

And it looks like this site has benefited from your efforts there too, Paul. This site didn't have any issues loading this morning.

I have read that 50 sets of floats were built to be fitted 'in the field' (Pacific arena)