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or this http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q208/antarmike/plane-crash-pic-aircraft-accident-p.jpg[/img]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q208/antarmike/helicopter-crashes-hydro-pole-accid.jpg[/img] How about this then?

Oh aqnd my ROF APFLT Eager Beaver is also fitted with Ether cold starting ( but it is a Perkins!!!)

I had always assumed that the BSP tapping and blanking plug fitted next to a throttle type butterfly in the inlet manifold of the AEC O853 Matadors was for ether cold starting, but I had never seen it in a manual, ( and I have at least six different Matador manuals and handbooks). That was until the other day when a guy at work gave me an RAF drivers Manual for the Matador (Book No 100 F.W.3. Air publication 2571 Vol 1 Part 1) and there on pages 12 and 13 was this:- http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q208/antarmike/18-12-2007214310.jpg[/img]

and three more O854's " somewhere on Malta"

I like my AEC's here is an O854

This was at the Rocket Site... I don't know where it is now.

The only explanation I have heard of engines becoming hooked on easy-start is that using similar volatile compounds leads to uncontrolled burning or an actual explosion that can shatter piston rings, and with the resulting loss in compression your only hope of starting the engine is with more "Squirt"

My wifes scammell explorer has "do not coast" painted twice in the cab, but that I always thought is because parts of the gearbox will be turning without the gearbox oil pump being driven and therefore lubricating those moving parts. I used to coast my Matador and I had 55 mph out of it on the hills down to Honiton, but I have grown up a bit now!

The interior of the cab of my ex RAF Matador is ,I beleive, painted in Cockpit green, and that is nothing like that. more a lime colour...

just hope it's more accurate than "tugs of war" or "Antar" both of which are full of howlers and stupid mistakes in the text and info....good pictures though, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to trust the text?

does anyone kmow a bs colour number for Aircraft cockpit green ( someone suggested it was the same colour as Eau de Nil.) Somewhere I also read that early land-Rover 80" were painted a colour Rover called Sage green , but this was actually war surplus Aircraft Cockpit Green. any ideas folks?

I wonder if that worked Mod Edit... what ever was you thinking ;-) http://www.hmvftv.com/b08731a97e7b91be644d.video?THORNYCROFT-ANTAR

loks like a small top hinged door set in a larger door with a hinge on the right?? something a man might get into but also capabale of taking something larger??

I have seen a list of the BD military number on the internet, but does anyone know if details of the FW series are available from anywhere?

perhaps my confusion comes from the fact that so many people refer to Beep Bronze Green simply as Bronze Green....

There is Bronze green and deep bronze green, I have only ever owned RAF vehicles (RAF Blue Grey ) but I thought the army used bronze green not deep broze green which is darker.

Betio secured in the Atoll war. Following 76 hours of carnage, with the US marines supported by heavy fire from destroyers, resitance on Betio ended. Of the 5000 Japanese defening the Island only 17 are still alive.

German 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad after Russian Counter Attack

Fall of Rostov in the Russian campaign

When taking off the Grand Slam aircraft had barely made 1000 feet by the english coast. On They were not supposed to bomb below 14,000 feet because they would be hit by the blast, but one account I read says they bombed at 11,800 feet because that is all the height they could acheive, On releasing the bomb the aircraft jumped up 600 feet. The Aircrews called the B1 (special) "Clapper Birds", because once the bomb was away, the Lanc was so light and with Merlin 24's they sped home at a speed unobtainable by any other four engined bomber...

The Lanc B1 (special) was a very stripped version of the Lanc. Some had only one gun in the front Turret, others had this turret completely removed, none had the Dorsal Turret and some had only two of the four rear guns. The Armour plate behind the pilot had to be removed and the Navigators Alloy and leather chair was replaced with a cane chair. On some missions the radio was removed and the operator left behind. It was normal to only carry enough ammo for one two second burst per gun. Grand Slam was too big to fit in the bomb bay so the doors were removed and the resulting hole faired over, the bomb being partly inside the lines of the plane. The Undercarraige of the standard Lanc was not up to the job and the B1 (special) used the landing gear from the Lincoln (also known breifly as the Lancaster Mk4) It was normal for Bombers over germany to carry an extra 100 Gallons of fuel, over and above the theoretiocal load, to allow for unseen headwinds or other gremlins but the B1 (special) had to make do without the luxury of any margin for error.

Only 42 Grand slams were ever dropped and none against the Tirpitz. 41 were dropped over occupied europe . The one dropped on British soil was dropped from 18,000 feet over Godshill on the edge of the Ashley Walk bombing range in Hampshire. This was the first drop of Grand Slam and the date was 13th March 1945. The first operational use was the following day When 15 Lancasters attacked and destroyed the Bielefeld Viaduct. 14 Lancasters dropped TallBoy and one Lanc dropped the only Grand Slam. It is claimed that the Grand Slam actually brought down a section of the Viaduct. Tirpitz was attacked by both 617 and 9 squadrons. 9 squadron operated out of Bardney, one of the closest Airfields to Scampton, Woodhall Spa and Conningsby, the three airfields used by 617 Squadron, and they were the second "High precision" squadrons charged with dropping these very expensive Tall Boy bombs. bombs. (There was a full weeks maching carried out on each Grand Slam and they were only being produced at the rate of two a month.) it was not helped when a ship bringing over american made bombs was sunk crossing the Atlantic. After the war 15 squadron converted to Lancaster Mark1 (specials) and were the only other Squadron apart from 617 to be given Grand Slam.

Tirpitz was not sunk with Grand Slam but with Tallboy a smaller 11,800 lbs bomb of which 5,200 Lbs was the Torpex filling.

Scout car reconnaissance /GW Mk 2/6 (Daimler Ferret 4x4) with Vigilant anti tank Wire guided missiles??