Westland Whirlwind

[Karnak]

Yeah but with the Whirlwind you don't need an armorer scurrying around in the weapons bay changing drums in the dark  

I am pretty sure later Beaufighters had Hispano Mk IIs that were belt fed.

240 rounds in total is still fairly healthy for a fighter, but I suppose no longer firing time than a Spit V. Have to be choosy about your shots.

That is the same ammo load as Spitfires Mk VIII, IX, XIV and XVI have for their two cannons and most people consider the Spitfire's ammo load to be light.  The Mosquito Mk VI has 700 rounds for its four cannon and that often seems light.

Two different kinds of aircraft really. Where is the most recent Beaufighter request thread? I'll have a read of it.

Here you go:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,255408.0.html

[nrshida]

Some great pictures in that thread. Thanks.

[MK-84]

Bump!

I want this

[bagrat]

It's got two engines. Good enough for me.

second!

[Baggy]

AVIA 18/691, "Whirlwind aircraft: performance and handling trials.

I went online and asked for a quote from the public records office to get it copied and put on a CD to send to Hitech. They quoted 199 quid! Now I want the Whirlwind but...

A little aside, they have air combat reports online:

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ww2aircombat.asp?WT.hp=Air Ministry Combat Reports

[Noir]

AVIA 18/691, "Whirlwind aircraft: performance and handling trials.

I went online and asked for a quote from the public records office to get it copied and put on a CD to send to Hitech. They quoted 199 quid! Now I want the Whirlwind but...

A little aside, they have air combat reports online:

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ww2aircombat.asp?WT.hp=Air Ministry Combat Reports

awesome 

[nrshida]

AVIA 18/691, "Whirlwind aircraft: performance and handling trials.

I've also just applied for a copy using a different approach. I'll hear within 10 working days they said. Thank you for finding this Baggy. We'll do our best to get a copy by fair means or foul.

[Baggy]

We only need 197 people to donate a quid each and we're there - hehehe.

I didn't find it by the way, its from an earlier post - credit to Scherf.

[RTHolmes]

from the whirlwind chapter of Flying Under Fire, William J Wheeler:













http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Under-Fire-William-Wheeler/dp/1894004795/

[Bino]

Way cool, thanks for posting.

Had to laugh, though, at the bottom photo of the air-show wingtip-to-wingtip diamond formation being captioned as a "loose finger-four".  

[JOACH1M]

Bump!

I want this

great, shida's gonna crazy again 

[nrshida]

Many thanks for sharing that RTHolmes, I'm off to read that now 

great, shida's gonna crazy again 

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[RTHolmes]

np

240 rounds in total is still fairly healthy for a fighter, but I suppose no longer firing time than a Spit V. Have to be choosy about your shots.

assuming you can arm the pairs of cannon separately its the same firing time as any spit from IX onwards except the 2 cannon are centre mounted or a burst of all 4 if its a tough aircraft, sounds pretty good to me

anyone got a whirlwind pilots notes to check?

[nrshida]

I don't know what the situation is with the Hurricane Mark IIc in real life, I know in Aces High you can separate the four cannons into two sets of primary and secondary fire, however the Whirlwind had a single fire button on the yoke, similar to the Spitfire Mark I (I think you roll the collar for safe / live). I think HTC's choice varies on how to model primary and secondary fire. Perhaps someone can shed some light on this.

Would certainly be a marksman's aircraft, I think I've seen a video of a 1000 yard killshot in an AH Mosquito somewhere about (YouTube I think).

[Seanaldinho]

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