bomber Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/bomber/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:30:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Restored Wellington Bomber moved into RAF Museum Display Hall https://mechtraveller.com/2023/04/restored-wellington-bomber-moved-into-raf-museum-display-hall/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/04/restored-wellington-bomber-moved-into-raf-museum-display-hall/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:57:45 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8907 A World War II Vickers Wellington bomber has been restored to its former glory after 12½ years of conservation at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands (Cosford)*. The Wellington, one of only two remaining in the UK (the other is at Brooklands Museum), was finally moved last week (19 April) from the Conservation Centre at […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2023/04/restored-wellington-bomber-moved-into-raf-museum-display-hall/feed/ 4 Bristol Blenheim https://mechtraveller.com/2021/03/bristol-blenheim/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/03/bristol-blenheim/#respond Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:02:52 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6803 The twin-engine Bristol Blenheim was the RAF’s primary light bomber at the start of WW2. This one, a Blenheim IV, is on display at the RAF museum in Hendon. (When we can get to see it!) The Bristol Blenheim – or ‘Bolingbroke’ if you were flying the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) version made under […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/03/bristol-blenheim/feed/ 0 Who had the most reliable bombs in WW2? https://mechtraveller.com/2018/03/who-had-the-most-reliable-bombs-in-ww2/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/03/who-had-the-most-reliable-bombs-in-ww2/#respond Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:25:11 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3066 What was the average failure rate of aerial bombs in the Second World War, and whose were better – the USAAF, RAF, Luftwaffe, Russian VVS, Regia Aeronautica, or maybe Japan’s IJAAS? I’m wondering because I came across an interesting statistic in Ian McLachian’s book of Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories (See Amazon below) He notes that […]

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