The Birds are out and about.

[Bob Womack]

We have two that fly out of our local airport here in Sidney BC. When I went to Cozumel, there was one as a monument at the old US airbase there.

The local Military Aviation Museum has a flying example.



Bob

[browningautorifle]

Ours are in US Navy trim still, some days they fly out in formation...neat.

[muffett.2008]

MyGreat Grand Daughter asked me when I first became interested in Planes.
Well that took me back......a long way back.
These pic's from my first Airshow in the early fifties.
A21 Moth Minor and Tiger Moths Lancaster or Lincoln A90 Percival Prince Sycamore ? A25 Oxford or A82 Viking? Dakota Bristol Freighter Mustangs

[browningautorifle]

The rocket there is a German V2. Complete with launching trailer.

[muffett.2008]

There was something else about that trip.......can't quite remember, couldn't have been too important.....ah thats right

[browningautorifle]

She was younger then...

[CINDERS]

If you look closely at the fins on the V2 you'll notice tiny paddle like things these are what kept the rocket pointed straight up when launched and not going fast enough for the tabs on the fins to keep it straight.
They were linked to a gyroscope and as the rocket tilted the input to them countered the yaw or pitch as in early development without these the rockets were quite unstable and prone to tipping and crashing the best one was where one went up and failed hitting a nearby Luftwaffe airfield causing considerable damage.
The V2's were so very lethal they fell to earth at supersonic speed thus there was no warning of their arrival just a huge explosion out of no where, nearly 1,400 struck London killing an estimated 2,724.

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There was something else about that trip

Somewhere in our pictures taken by my family is one taken of the queen and her entourage going past our house in Perth, I've seen it once when in my teens but my sister may still have it from the estate.

[GeeRam]

MyGreat Grand Daughter asked me when I first became interested in Planes.
Well that took me back......a long way back.
These pic's from my first Airshow in the early fifties.
Attachment 125924Lancaster or Lincoln

Lincoln, as you can see the wider deep semi-circular shaped nacelles for the Griffon engines quite clearly.

[Bob Womack]

Lincoln, as you can see the wider deep semi-circular shaped nacelles for the Griffon engines quite clearly.

In fact, they were so wide and round that I was wondering if this wasn't stopgap Lanc with Bristol Hercules engines.

Bob

[GeeRam]

In fact, they were so wide and round that I was wondering if this wasn't stopgap Lanc with Bristol Hercules engines.

Bob

By D-Day, there were only two squadrons of radial engine Lanc Mk.II's left in RAF service.
Although remarkably, a few MkII's actually survived as flying test beds until 1950.....

It was interesting that the Hercules power of the Mk.II Lancs significantly reduced the performance and service ceiling of the Lanc, compared to its Merlin power Mk.1, but later on, when the Halifax was converted from Merlin power to Hercules power, the performance the Halifax Mk.III with the Hercules was significantly improved over it's previous Merlin power versions......