Handley Page Halifax Mk VII NA337
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Hello Alan
thanks for the pictures, especially those from the Cockpit will help when i build (sometime 😉 ) my Revell Halifax
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Indeed, that is very helpful 👍 thanks for the taking the time to do that! 👍 👍
I still think it's a beautiful machine, too! Great pictures!🙂
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My pleasure. The museum is about an hour from my house, so a repeat visit is not too far off.
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Thanks for sharing Alan. Some great detail shots for modelling reference. Your Lancaster makes it's long journey home to Canada this weekend after a very successful UK tour🙂
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Oh to be so lucky to see this! Makes one's skin prick to think of the chaps who flew her!
A wonderful project done with utmost care and love! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Martyn. Thanks Stephen. It was a volunteer team that put her back together.
Martyn, now that the Lancaster is back I will need to visit that museum. Canadian Warplane Heritage is in Hamilton, about an hour southwest of here. Trenton was an hour east of my house. So, another walkaround coming soon?
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Thanks for posting the Halifax photos. If you haven't been to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum yet, here is a preview!
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario | Album by Navy Bird
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Thanks for the link Bill. I have been there once but not for a long visit. Many of the displays I don't remember. The model of the HMCS Bonaventure I don't remember. Nostalgic glimpse back to when Canada had naval airpower. When I was there they also had the hall set up for a banquet. That is one of their selling points in their advertising, but it just crams the aircraft together to make space for the seating and makes it difficult to see the planes and take photos.
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Thanks to your photos, I must now plan a visit to Trenton! I've been to the museums in Ottawa, but that was quite some time ago. I remember posing my 1 year old son in his stroller next to a wheel from a Lancaster, which dwarfed him. Great photo! He's 32 now and has some top secret job for Uncle Sam. I have no clue what he does! 🙂
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Interesting 🙂 I like subjects that has to do with my own country, and the Halifax is a beauty!
23.04.1945, 19:51: Halifax NA337 takes off from Tarant Rushton in Doreset, SW England. The mission is to drop weapons and supplies to the Norwegian underground in Grue.
01:00: The NA337 drops 13 containers and two packages over Mikkelsberget (this was the air drop number 2 that night).
The Norwegian crew on the ground suspected that something was wrong because of the planes drop direction and low altitude.
Several parachutes did not have the time to unfold, which resulted in some loss of equipment. When the NA337 headed for home, they used Minnesund as the benchmark for their return. They approached Minnesund at a low altitude, and because of that, they were unable to evade the manned flak cannon on the ground. NA337 took several hits.
01:20: The plane crash lands in the Mjøsa river. Only one man, the tail gunner Thomas Weightman, survives. The rest of the crew freezes to death or drown in the ice cold waters.
08.07.1982: The NA337 is localized in two pieces at a depth of 250 meters in Mjøsa.
In July 1994: Norwegian authorities gives Canadian Halifax Aircraft Association permission to take over the plane.
10.09.1995: NA337 is brought up from the water. In the meantime, enthusiasts have tracked down the surviving tail gunner, Thomas Weightman. On the mission back in 1945 he had a thermos of cold coffee with him. This thermos was recovered, and solemnly presented back to him.
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Great details to the story Vegard. What was your source for the info?
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Hi Bill. We would certainly welcome you. I have other pictures from the museum that I will post as well. It is all volunteer and there is no admission although donations are always welcome. That makes it different from Ottawa. I always thought national museums should be free since they are tax funded but I haven't been able to get the government to agree.
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Thanks Alan for the photos. Great having interior photos to help with modelling.
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I just did some quick googling on Norwegian websites and translated 🙂 Lots of info about NA337
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wow ALAN nice clean museum with alot of planes inside 🙂 damn no tanks 🙂
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There are things I see on some aircraft and wonder what the purpose is and in this case, Can any one tell me where the pipe leads to that is attached to the back of the exhaust stack. Is it for heating some part of the crew space . ? 🙂
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Thanks for sharing Alan! I'm going to to make my Revell 1:72nd Dam Buster! 🙂
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Thx for sharing this Alan! Will probably help me a lot for my building soon 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed them. Sorry Raz, no tanks at the Air Force museum 🙂
Kerry, good question! Slide 23 shows it going inside the wheel well, but can see any connection inside though. Also happens on the outside engines as well, so don't know where they go. Is it some kind of flash and exhaust suppressor for night bombing???
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Lol, I don't know mate, so it looks like I am googling it. Thanks for the reply and I love the images mate, simply stunning stuff 🙂
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Oh, the exhaust stack the way it is 'fluted' there was the way the boffins came up with breaking down the flames and making it harder fro gunners and night fighters to 'see' the aircraft.
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The flash suppressor is the hedgehog/porcupine looking part with the barbs sticking out of it. On planes with guns, pipes from the exhaust were sometimes used to heat the guns so they wouldn't jam. That wouldn't be the case for the Halifax, so it must be heating something else. I know some Halifax experts, I can ask them.
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OK, my mate says the warm air was circulated through the wing leading edges to prevent icing and was also used to heat the cabin.
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Thanks Bill. Learned something new today. Thanks Kerry for noticing. It didn't click in with me and I'm the one who took the pictures! 🙂
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It reminded me of the warming device that was on my Honda Civic I had some 30 years ago and that's what made me ask. Strange hey !!! 🙂
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A few weeks ago a friend and I went to the National Air Force Museum of Canada, just outside of Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton, Ontario. The big attraction is a Halifax bomber that was restored a few years ago and remains the only restored Halifax in the world. The souvenir restoration booklet says that the Restoration Manager believes that it "was completely restored to be actually technically correct according to original manufacturer's drawings."
I have some pictures I took of the exterior. The interior shots and the condition before restoration were scanned from the booklet. The plane was built to SOE standards so it doesn't have a top turret to allow more room for men and supplies. There is a round opening with a fairing around it on the belly aft of the bomb compartment for dropping supplies and men. You can see it if you squint in a few of the photos.
I scanned the cover of the booklet, but it is small to read so here is the text:
"This painting by Barry Price, depicts NA337 taking off fr