Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

Hi Smudger How wide is the microfilm? There are plently of 35mm negative readers for standard negatives (between 30 and 120 squid). There is no reason why you couldn't pass your negative through one of these manually and manipulate the resultant file as necessary with a software package, it may need...

Hi All Stirlings had three formation lights on the rear of each wing. Some questions: 1) Anyone have any close up shots or drawings of these items. Getting a bit more specific I would like the ones fitted to the early Mk1's in preference. These were under a transparent cover (like the nav lights) an...

Hi This is quite an old thread but I was interested to read that the crew believed that IFF would affect the operation of the searchlights and have noted it formally. I have just read a book by R. V. Jones - Most Secret War. In it he describes how it became a popular rumour that the IFF transmission...

Hi All A while ago Mary put up a question regarding the apparent delay in the Stirling undercarriage moving. I've gotten to a point with my Stirling 3D Model where I can animate enough to give some sort of simulation. I think that the speed is about right. The first video (you tube) shows a side vie...

Hi Halifax1 The Stirling had a single 24V supply for the vast majority of its electrical systems. Short out any of the main +ve bus conductors with any of the negative conductors and the whole lot will fail. However the thing you use to short them together would need to carry the entire 120A short c...

Thanks Dennis I'll have to look through my Stirling photo collection for them, details are always hard to pick out on the low contrast B&W images from that era. It's often hard to see the wingtip navigation lights for example so if you didn't know that they had to be there you might assume they ...

Hi

Not sure about the reply!

I mean the little blob on the photo of the turret, almost directly under the right hand line of rivets.

It would be natural to put the light on the centre line of the aircraft but it is displaced for some reason.


Cheers
James

Hi

This is a useful picture for me too as I am modifying a 3D graphic of the Stirling and I notice that the tail navigation lamp light isn't central - but anyone know what the other 'blob' is on the right?


Cheers
James

Hi John When you say you have the AP (and I note that I said pretty much the same thing) just how much of the AP do you have? It seems that the AP is in many different sections, Vol I, II and III and of course the Pilots Notes. I only have Vol I which is about 700 pages but I've never seen the other...

Gary

That's cool - I assume that anyone will be able to view them? It would make a useful resource on here I guess.

Jim