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Post by hairy on Aug 1, 2008 22:36:09 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 2, 2008 9:13:03 GMT 12
Nice.
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Post by angelsonefive on Aug 3, 2008 18:43:14 GMT 12
Quite original to have an engine shut down on each aircraft for the picture.
Thanks for posting.
Is that a radome on the nose of the centre plane ?
Any idea of where and when ?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2008 19:25:37 GMT 12
By radome do you mean the white painted nose cap, or the far engine cowl seen popping up behind the nose? They all had radar in the nose as far as I know.
I have seen this (second) photo published but cannot find where, other than in Contact magazine. It was published more recetly and I think it was a special demonstration for the camera to bolster morale about the Ventura's rumoured poor performance on one engine. It would have been 1943 and probably flying from Hobsonville or maybe Ohakea. I'll try to find the reference.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2008 19:27:03 GMT 12
It's amazing how dirty that window was before Leo wiped it and snapped again, eh!
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Post by corsair67 on Aug 3, 2008 19:33:33 GMT 12
That is a great photo. You'd be very unhappy with yourself and also unpopular with the Ventura crews if you got back to base and realised every photo you'd taken looked like the first version!
Dave, I think you are right about that photo sortie being flown to show that the Ventura wasn't quite the crew killer that everyone thought it was with one engine out.
Isn't that photo also featured in Alex Horn's book?
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Post by shorty on Aug 3, 2008 20:13:01 GMT 12
The Venturas are NZ4534 ZX-D, NZ4521 ZX-G, NZ4543 ZX-F from 1 OTU and the photo was taken 23 Jan 1945 Codes were balck, outlined in white and repeated each side of, and below the nose.
There is a very similar photo of 3 "single engined" Venturas with Pacific markings and flying in the opposite direction in Brendon Deeres book
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