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By: - 16th June 2005 at 20:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
HP Type 658, Halifax Mk V built by Rootes Securities, serials between DG231 and DG424 according to "The British Bomber since 1914" By Francis K Mason.
By: - 16th June 2005 at 21:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thanks Papa Lima - that's much appreciated.
By: - 16th June 2005 at 22:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The pleasure is mine - any excuse to go into my "aviation library"!
By: - 16th June 2005 at 22:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hehe - that said, there is a picture of this aircraft in the old edition of High Ground Wrecks - it is a Merlin engined aircraft! Mk Vs were equipped with Hercules engines...
Very strange!
The pleasure is mine - any excuse to go into my "aviation library"!
By: - 16th June 2005 at 22:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Sorry, but there are several references and even photographs of Halifax Mk V aircraft with Merlin engines in pages 394-399 of "Handley Page Aircraft since 1907" by C H Barnes - I love my Putnams!
For example, and I quote "The total number of Merlin-engined Halifaxes (Mks, I, II and V) produced was 1,967 . . ."
By: - 16th June 2005 at 22:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Also ("The British Bomber" again): "Mk III, VI and VII Hercules" all other Marks had the Merlin.
By: - 16th June 2005 at 22:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Okay - i'm sure you're correct PL.
By: - 16th June 2005 at 23:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
As far as I recall the Mk.V was similar to a Mk.II, but with Dowty undercarriage rather than the Messier set on the II.
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By: Whitley_Project - 16th June 2005 at 19:54
Dear all
Can anyone tell me what Mk of Halifax this was? I am wondering if it is a Mk I.
Thanks in advance
Elliott