I'll let you know. There's 5 days left for bidding. I was lucky I suppose as the geezer knows me well, but he got well twitchy when a crowd gathered. Not that it mattered, you wouldn't have been able to lever it off me with a crowbar with a turd on the end.
Just printed these for a customer. Two separate airstrikes on shipping in Norwegian fjords during the second world war. As far as I can tell the aircraft are from the Banff wing, Beaufighters I think. It's hard to tell from the pictures but I don't think they're Mosquitos. The puffs of smoke and trails are ripple launched 3" rockets, four from each underwing rack. They say that a salvo of all eight was the equivalent of a broadside from a cruiser the size of HMS Belfast. The splashes on the water are cannon shell strikes used to sight the rocket launch.
A rocket launch is relatively recoiless as a rocket is more like a gun in reverse. It's forward movement is the recoil. But the noise was staggering. The Banff strike wing used a version of the mosquito called the Tse Tse which had its 20mm cannons replaced with a single 6lb artillery gun. Now that did have a recoil.
A 6lb artillery gun on a Mosquito. Kin ell. Bit like that German tankbuster . Can't remember it's make? Heschel Hs 129 ?
The Henschel, yeah with a 75mm Borsig cannon. The Tse Tse Mosquitos used to practice down here. They had a full sized mock up of a U boat at Exeter Airport and they used to trawl down the runway taking pot shots at it.
