Recent content by Steve Hnz

I'm seeing something like the Armstrong Whitworth A W 23. The low wings, radial engines & tail fins surely look toward this for inspiration. Image from here

Thanks for that clarification, I did wonder that but struggled to see where his knowledge of the SBD might have come from, although his knowledge of air fighting per se is in no way in question.

@MIflyer For the uninitiated, which Major John Howard are we referring to & who or what was CMH? Accounts I've read of the battle of the Coral sea indicate the SBDs were used as fighters because they were short of the real things, needs must as it were.

to give some context. Corporal Morgan Hoellfritsch, a Medical Technician with No 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron during Cope North 24. Picture by LACW Maddison Scott. From the Katherine Times

I'm not seeing @mhoeltken's device as being the same as @Andymac53 has shown above, similar but not identical. In my experience, British bomb carriers were usually based around a beam with bomb steadies at either end & the bomb attachment point/release about the middle of the beam. The device...

Thanks @pb43 for clearing that one up before we all disappeared down a different rabbit hole. It is not an easily photographed location but I did find this photo on Airliners.net which shows it well, interesting how brown the dark green paint that it should have worn originally has gone.

Some Australian production aircraft with the single stage Merlins did have six stub exhausts on the outer side of the engines, such as this one

Nice one. I used those decals on a Matchbox Buffalo a couple of years back, the Hasegawa kit makes them look MUCH better, as does your modelling. :)

Never been a fan of the Snipe, a fatter, uglier version of the Camel, a nice photo nonetheless which conveys my impressions perfectly.;):lol:

Whatever she was doing, she was doing it very nicely. :)

Bloody marvellous Grant, having now taken the time to go through this thoroughly. Super photos & a great account of your adventures. :thumbleft:

Some more vids on this Aviation Safety Net page to give some more perspective. Hard to suggest it was anything other than a poorly executed manouvre, very sad for the crews, families & friends & for those injured on the ground.

Some vids in the incident on the Aviation Safety net. The appearance was that it was too low & too slow, certainly very leisurely in its roll & lost too much altitude to recover. Sympathy to family & friends of the crew & those injured on the ground.

I wasn't too far off then, it's a brilliant place up there, been some changes since I went, would love to get back again. Bit far for a day trip though. :D

The DH Museum, London Colney? I think probably in the Mosquito prototype, looks like the B35 in front of it.