Longest Stirling Flight / Operation ?

Post by **K4KittyCrew** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:40 am

Thought I'd put this question out to all the members.

What is the longest recorded flight / operation, known for a Short Stirling?
John

PAFG · Post by **PAFG** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:48 pm

No idea on this one John, but Stirlings did take part in ops against Italy so I wouldn't be surprised off some of these trips are at the upper end of the scale.

Richard

Dave_Richardson · Post by **Dave_Richardson** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:18 pm

I'm with Richard. I'd go for Turin.

Dave

Theletterwriter · Post by **Theletterwriter** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:52 pm

I suppose another factor will be how direct (or not) the route to and from the target was. A quick look at the 199 ORB shows flight times of about 9 hours for ops to Turin on 12-13/8/43 and 16-17/8/43.

Douglas

Post by **wayne** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:29 am

An interesting question.
I see 11 Stirlings were part of an attack against Stettin on 20/21 April 43.
The BCWD mention it was more then 600 miles from the UK.
I'm guessing it was a little further away than Turin, depending on the route taken of course (happy to be corrected if wrong)

Of the 21 aircraft lost, one was a Stirling.

Wayne.

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