Who wants to fly this

[Hard Sarge]

Yuck

[Hard Sarge]

what no takers ?

if I not mistaken, that is the plane that got the first GB air kill of the war !

knocked down a Ju 88, odd part is the Ju 88 was faster

oh well

well then how about this

[Capt Cliff]

Where's the T-Bolt? When you absolutely have to take something to take into combat, and can be sure to make it home!

[Hard Sarge]

I not got a view of one of those yet

[daveballmh]

Hard

I think you may be wrong. That aircraft is Blacburn Roc which is a turret fighter version of the Blackburn Skua - a sort of naval rival to the Boulton Paul Defiant, but a lot slower.

I think the first kill might have been by a Blackburn Skua, which was primarily a dive bomber but was also used as a fighter at times. The irony is that the Skua was about 20mph faster than the Roc

Dave

[Terminus]

Yeah, the Skua got the first confirmed FAA kill of the war.

[Hard Sarge]

Sorry Had it backwards

but still, both are butt ugly, and slower then the planes they were facing

[Hard Sarge]

more planes, only a mother could love

[HMSWarspite]

Nah - you haven't even got close to ugly yet...Hampden, Whitley are both not pretty, and if you go beyond BTR, try the Boulton Paul Overstrand (left service 1940-1 so almost counts!). But my personal favourite - the Baracuda.

Of course, some of the interwar flying boats...

[Hard Sarge]

Twins

[Speedysteve]

Aren't they pretty[8D]

[langley]

Give me the Westland Whirlwind II anyday!

MJT

[Hard Sarge]

I confused
I only got a Mk1 and a Mk1a

?

[Hard Sarge]

now here is a pretty one

[Hard Sarge]

of course, some people have no taste

[Hard Sarge]

of course, some people like to use skill when they fly

[Terminus]

Of course, some people should get around to releasing these games toute suite![;)]

[Andy Mac]

<agrees with Terminus>

I just bought BII to keep me busy while I wait !!!!

Come on guys hurry up !!!![:D][:D][:D]

[langley]

The Westland Whrilwind MkII

In December 1940 production of the Peregrine engine was due to be stopped!
By January 1941 Westland had done some redesign work to allow 2 x Merlin 20 Engines to be fitted to the airframe.

These would of given the aircraft Outstanding Performance. The estimates for this performance are as Follows:-
Top speed 410mph
Service Ceiling 37,000ft
Range 800miles

Given that the modifactions to fit merlin 20 engines were mainly to sort out undercarriage retraction problems it appears this Version could well of been in service mid to late 1941!

How well would they done flying against the Fw 190 is hard to say but it would of being intresting.

There was even talk of a Whirlwind with an American Engine (Alison Engine?)

As it was the Westland Whirlwind II never went into Production The powers that be felt that the new Hawker Fighter with six 20mm Cannon and a single engine was a better bet.

The Name of this Great Hawker Fighter was the Typhoon and it never did fly with six cannons.

Most of this information was taken from The Westland Whirlwind Fighter by Victor Bingham.

MJT

[Hard Sarge]

Okay, I follow now

I had the figher model and the fighter bomber model, that is why I was confused by the Mk II

another one that got to make you shake your head, was the P-38 with merlins, the test model was great, and it was figured out it would take about 2 weeks to reset the production lines, the higher ups figured they needed the 2 weeks production more then they needed a better plane type !