Westland Whirlwind

[Colin1]

The thing with British footage WW2 is as bit frustrating, for example there is a lot of German guncam and more of USAAF, but very few of British fighters.

One researcher
was doing a piece on British gunnery in WWII and asked permission to see archival records of camera footage; once the archivists realised that he was trying to reveal what lousy shots the British were, he was denied access. I'm not suggesting that that's the reason why you can't find any camera footage, there's probably a host of other, more practical reasons - maybe most of it was destroyed or although by now de-classified, it's just that nobody's bothered to make it readily available.

 

[CharlesBronson]

One researcher
was doing a piece on British gunnery in WWII and asked permission to see archival records of camera footage; once the archivists realised that he was trying to reveal what lousy shots the British were, he was denied access. I'm not suggesting that that's the reason why you can't find any camera footage, there's probably a host of other, more practical reasons - maybe most of it was destroyed or although by now de-classified, it's just that nobody's bothered to make it readily available.

Shame on the british, poor propagandist they are . To contrary the germans have all the good shoots publizised in the "Deutsche Wochenschau" and others newsreel, piece of cake to adquire that. The same goes for the USAAF and US NAVY, the american armada even had color guncam footage.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Perhaps the British did not equip all fighters with gun cameras?????????

I think the Whirlwind is a beautiful plane, up until you get to the tail, then it looks tad odd IMO.

 

[CharlesBronson]

Well, I dont know about every british Fighter but Spitfires had guncam installed as standar equipment since 1941.

 

[CharlesBronson]

Video of Whirlwinds loading up, some of the bombs are written in spanish so is likely there was an argentine pilot in that squadron.

 

[gwalch]

Top work CharlesBronson.. thanks for uploading that video.. gotta love this aircraft.

 

[Glider]

I always thought that if you looked them head on they reminded me of a Meteor.

 

[sunny91]

Thanks for sharing

 

[vikingBerserker]

I always thought that if you looked them head on they reminded me of a Meteor.

Dead on, it does.

 

[Shortround6]

Thanks for sharing.