Bomber Command in winter

[TSR2]

Yes, I see what you mean. It was (is) 1024, but I set it to 1080 because someone was having trouble at one point and I never changed it back

[Paul K]

Ah right, yes 1080 ! So 1080 wide is the default size, before you click on it for the bigger sizes. Thanks for that Ben !

[Paul K]

When I was a child I had a set of encyclopedia in which there was a photo of a Beaufighter over a wintry Britain, and I've never forgotten it.

That very photo was posted today on an aviation newsgroup, so I thought I'd put it up here:

[DaveB]

Makes you feel cold just looking at it

Nice shot Paul

ATB
DaveB

[TSR2]

That's a brilliant photo. Can you imagine sitting in that in the freezing cold and having to keep your whits about. Hard for us to imagine these days I suspect.

[JohnWillimas]

..... pity they missed putting Lincoln Cathedral and the castle which stands opposite in FTX, would make Bomber County complete!!

Nigel.

Christian Grimsel has a "fake" (it's Canterbury repositioned) Lincoln Cathedral at FS.com which seems to work OK, not ideal but an improvement?

[dutchman2]

What aircraft is that in the Woodcock painting? At first glance, I thought it was a North American Mitchell (B-25). Then I realized she had four engines.

[TSR2]

Looks like a Liberator to me, all be it a "Britished" one. Not sure what they were called in RAF service.

[Paul K]

Makes you feel cold just looking at it

Dave, doesn't it just ! As with the painting, you can almost smell the snow - that ozone smell it has - and feel the chill air on your nose. That photo has remained in my mind since I was about 5 or 6.

That's a brilliant photo. Can you imagine sitting in that in the freezing cold and having to keep your whits about. Hard for us to imagine these days I suspect.

Ben, I recently read Donald Miller's 'Eighth Air Force', a brutally honest warts-n-all history of the American bomber crews and what they suffered at high altitude and cold. He tells of a bombardier who lost consciousness and suffered from frostbite before any of the other crew realized he was in trouble. When they got him to hospital, they had to amputate his feet, hands, ears, nose - and his eyeballs.

What aircraft is that in the Woodcock painting? At first glance, I thought it was a North American Mitchell (B-25). Then I realized she had four engines.

That's a Handley-Page Halifax B. Mk III, Dutch. Same one as in the third screenshot. A famous one too ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rsary.html

[Paul K]

Looks like a Liberator to me, all be it a "Britished" one. Not sure what they were called in RAF service.

Liberator ? Ben...Liberator ?????