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Offline Litvyak

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ww2 airplane - type ID please?
« on: July 25, 2012, 01:01:41 PM »
So a friend of mine just sent me a photo taken at Vancouver airport in 1944, it's a splendid high res image, but (as usual) something in the background caught my eye. I've cropped the photo to focus in the portion of interest, as the full-size file (which shows the entirety of the CPAL airplane in the foreground) is huge.

Can anyone ID what that is? It looks like it's got radials and a turret? Overall light colour - yellow, perhaps? Or white?
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Re: ww2 airplane - type ID please?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 01:07:37 PM »
My guess is a RCAF Bristol Blenheim or Bristol Bolingbroke
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Re: ww2 airplane - type ID please?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2012, 01:12:21 PM »
Quote from: GTX_Admin on July 25, 2012, 01:07:37 PM
My guess is a RCAF Bristol Blenheim or Bristol Bolingbroke

I'd agree with that. The landing gear design is distinctively Blenheim/Bolingbroke.
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Re: ww2 airplane - type ID please?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2012, 04:39:09 PM »
I would say it was a Bristol Bolingbroke, (Canadian built), and the white scheme would indicate a Coastal Command machine.
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Re: ww2 airplane - type ID please?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2012, 04:42:27 PM »
Ah yes...but what time of the day was the photo taken...and what did the crew have for breakfast that day? ;)
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Re: ww2 airplane - type ID please?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2012, 07:39:48 PM »
Quote from: GTX_Admin on July 25, 2012, 04:42:27 PM
Ah yes...but what time of the day was the photo taken...and what did the crew have for breakfast that day? ;)

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Re: ww2 airplane - type ID please?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2012, 07:45:08 PM »
Actually, time of day probably CAN be determined at least roughly based on the shadows...
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