Did a bloody good job of finding it then! Was @Kirkz on the salvage team?@SPROCKET321 , I know it’s a bit late but this turned up on FB today. Thought you might like to see it.
This aircraft was lost with all hands.View attachment 538794
Did a bloody good job of finding it then! Was @Kirkz on the salvage team?@SPROCKET321 , I know it’s a bit late but this turned up on FB today. Thought you might like to see it.
This aircraft was lost with all hands.View attachment 538794
I have yet to read the maintenance hours/flying time ratio for wartime aircraft, but in many cases it was easier to write off an aircraft than to undertake major structural repairs. By way of a more modern comparison, the much-vaunted Harrier GR-9 took 14 hours of maintenance per flying hour; the F-14 ran into 20+ hours, I understand.Quite apart from the astonishing modelling, this thread has been superb in terms of gaining a real understanding of what it actually took get the RAF into the air and able to fight. The books may talk about 1,000 bomber raids but they never quite capture what a mammoth and very skilled technical and maintenance effort backed it all up.
Are those figures averages or just what it takes on a good day?I have yet to read the maintenance hours/flying time ratio for wartime aircraft, but in many cases it was easier to write off an aircraft than to undertake major structural repairs. By way of a more modern comparison, the much-vaunted Harrier GR-9 took 14 hours of maintenance per flying hour; the F-14 ran into 20+ hours, I understand.
Man hours.So a standard patrol means it's VOR for 21 hours before it's good to go or three working days!
21 men for one and a half hours.Man hours.
21menpeople for one hour would do it.
In theory.
I think I got away with my non PC use of words.
So diverged people then?21 men for one and a half hours.
You forgot NAAFI break.
Which you would include in a value stream map of aircraft servicing.21 men for one and a half hours.
You forgot NAAFI break.
Iirc Lynx was c. 9 man hours per flying hour, usually in blocks every 25 hrs, though oil samples and magnetic plug inspections could be every 5 if the EFD (Early Failure Detection) cell detected anything suspicious. More serious stuff occurred at longer intervals and needed more downtime. A ‘Check 4’ inspection (every 400 hrs iirc) would be around a week for a crew of 5 or 6. Anything beyond this would be sent back to a second line workshop.I have yet to read the maintenance hours/flying time ratio for wartime aircraft, but in many cases it was easier to write off an aircraft than to undertake major structural repairs. By way of a more modern comparison, the much-vaunted Harrier GR-9 took 14 hours of maintenance per flying hour; the F-14 ran into 20+ hours, I understand.
None needed. What an outstanding effort.Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I couldn't find it on a search. Excuses over.
Reading a question on Quora "What was the most unusual dogfight of WW2?", this came up as an answer.
It is rather long, but (I think) fascinating:
Sunderland EJ134 vs. Ju88 x 8
Could make a good subject for a build - much use of a small drill bit required.
Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I couldn't find it on a search. Excuses over.
Reading a question on Quora "What was the most unusual dogfight of WW2?", this came up as an answer.
It is rather long, but (I think) fascinating:
Sunderland EJ134 vs. Ju88 x 8
Could make a good subject for a build - much use of a small drill bit required.
I've read that story before, the moral of which is 'never engage an aircraft full of Australians with machine guns'.Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I couldn't find it on a search. Excuses over.
Reading a question on Quora "What was the most unusual dogfight of WW2?", this came up as an answer.
It is rather long, but (I think) fascinating:
Sunderland EJ134 vs. Ju88 x 8
Could make a good subject for a build - much use of a small drill bit required.
I was reading of an an account of an RNZAF Lockheed PV1 Ventura bomber being bounced by five [ETA: 9...that's NINE] Zeros and downing three of them, with DFCs and DFMs all round. For an aircraft that was largely rejected by the RAF for frontline service in ETO, the Kiwi Venturas undertook fighter escort duties for USAAF B17 raids in the Pacific, and by all accounts did a good job. 'kin hard as nails, too.Bugger
My
Old
Boots
Nails, nails, nails. Cap doffed.
Excellent read and an outstanding effort by the crew.Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I couldn't find it on a search. Excuses over.
Reading a question on Quora "What was the most unusual dogfight of WW2?", this came up as an answer.
It is rather long, but (I think) fascinating:
Sunderland EJ134 vs. Ju88 x 8
Could make a good subject for a build - much use of a small drill bit required.