Originally Posted by
Prangster
'It's a bloody Halifax with nobs on', one of the aircrew administers a gentle clip round the ear to the impertinent ATC cadet heading towards one of Lindholmes T5,s
'Just you mind your Ps and Qs laddie' We trudged round the sky seeing nowt on account of it being well dark so take off must have been late in the day it being August. I seem to remember a roller at Jurby before flogging back to cocoa and bed
Seriously though just how much Halifax was there in evidence?
Quite a lot of the part numbers were the same, HP57, particularly the wings I believe.
The Halifax at Elvington, regularly derided as being a model or replica, has as I recall entirely Hastings wings with the only glaring discrepancy being a wider centre section.
I understand veterans considered it to be a Halifax. Good enough for me...