Some interesting records of wartime aircraft variations. I had never seen them before. Would be worth pursuing? Cheers Keith ps. there are about 70 drawings, if there is any interest I will post them all.
Sorry, Keith, missed these. It's a real mix of run-of-the-mill and oddities, isn't it? A couple of mods there that I haven't seen before, especially the turret on the Beau (WTF?!). Would get a few modelers excited, I imagine. Are you excited?!
Fascinating - the rest would be welcome! R2274 was the sole Mk V Beaufighter, according to my list of serials, but I don't know why they bothered with a forward firing turret when the aircraft had such formidable fixed armament, and the turret doesn't appear to be able to fire aft. Could it be to provide suppressive fire during a torpedo attack? The other Beau, R2058, was the prototype Mk II, with the Merlin engines. But I don't know if all Mk IIs had the enlarged fin. What really stumps me is nos. 14 & 15, which appear to have U serial numbers, not listed in the usual sources. 14 looks like a shortened Magister but probably isn't, and 15 might be a Blackburn Firebrand - but note the fixed undercarriage. Any ideas anyone?
WWII aircraft variations Fantastic Igot some interest. I knew someone would want to verify types and numbers. Unfortunately I lost the book these oddities were from. However I loaded the drawing details. Some more herewith. Cheers Keith
Lots of interest here! I must admit I had to resort to my serials list to identify some of them. Any idea what the lines along the side of nos 38, 39 and 41 signified? 54 is a post-war Miles Aerovan
Aircraft Variations Hi Adrian, At last someone with the same type of delving interest as myself. This is the final lot. Watch out for Lancaster variation. Cheers Keith
Lancaster Variations Hi Adrian, More of the same. I never knew about the last two or three. Cheers Keith
Thanks Keith, very interesting. The cutaway is probably the most detailed that I have seen. As far as I know, the pressurised and high-speed versions were never built. I doubt if they would have been fast enough or high-flying enough to out-fly a He219. You may remember I said that someone had kindly bought me the Revell Lancaster kit, which I will probably have a go at even though it is not my current speciality. I have a vague idea of converting it into a Dambuster version, in which case the drawing you have supplied of the Upkeep installation is as good as I'm going to get. (No good going by the 1954 film; the mines were shown as projecting further from the fuselage than they actually did. I wonder if Peter Jackson will get it right if he gets round to a remake?)
