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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 1:29 pm
by Dave81
Are they not physically exactly the same, bar paint and numbers?
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 1:37 pm
by Dave-R
Dave81 wrote:Are they not physically exactly the same, bar paint and numbers?
They don't look it to me. Top gun turret different location and different cockpit canopies?
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 1:43 pm
by Carl
Dave wrote:Dave81 wrote:Are they not physically exactly the same, bar paint and numbers?
They don't look it to me. Top gun turret different location and different cockpit canopies?
Yep that's what I spotted
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 1:48 pm
by Carl
Pete wrote:The Canadian plane has Packard Merlin engines.....actually it is a cut and shut from an earlier crash landing......
Ah maybe that might explain why the top gun turret is in a different place to the other plane?
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 1:58 pm
by Dave81
So it is.........missed that one!
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 2:39 pm
by mad machs
Yep, BMK1 & BX quite a few changes.
Aircraft are like that, same basic types, lots of variants, some looking similar, some not, the Mozzie is a good example of that as well as the Lancaster.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 6:03 pm
by Pete
And Spitfires - so many variants, shapes and roles: Fighter, Photographic reconnaissance, ground attack....
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 14 9:23 pm
by mad machs
Pete wrote:And Spitfires - so many variants, shapes and roles: Fighter, Photographic reconnaissance, ground attack....
Indeed Pete, effectively from the diminutive MKI to the mighty MK24 & Seafire FR47
Reminded myself earlier of what awaited on the conventional weapon front ... two 22000lb Grand Slams slung under a B29,
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 14 1:53 am
by Doug
Its a easy spot...the Canadian Lanc is a left hand Drive
Check out YouTube , Lancasters over the Derwent , it was packed with onlookers