My grandfather was an engineer who, along with a colleague, adapted
the Boulton-Paul turret to take Browning machine guns instead of the larger Vickers. This turret was eventually installed in the Lancaster bombers.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:09, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

^ This Guy Gets It ^

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:12, Reply)

I may, in fact, mean Frazer Nash.
Edit: Yes, he adapted the turret when he worked for Bristol on their Beaufighter. The turrent was later used almost exactly as he adapted it on the Lancaster.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:12, Reply)

The Beaufighter was a massive faliure

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:17, Reply)

That's not even slightly true.
It was the primary nightfighter of the RAF before the Mosquito came in. Heaviest guns of any fighter of its time.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:18, Reply)

I'm only going of what the History channel tells me
The Mosquito however was really, really good
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:22, Reply)

The Mosquito was faster, and therefore better able to keep up with faster bombers
but the Beaufighter moved into anti-shipping and was in use until the end of the war. It was a bit slow and heavy, but it certainly wasn't a failure.

Pretty thing, too.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)

The main problem with the Beaufighter
was that they had reallly shit, gay turrets on them. The prick who designed those should have been shot as a traitor, the bent cunt.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:27, Reply)

Fucking hell
haha
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)

They had two armholes in the roof

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:32, Reply)

armholes white flags
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:47, Reply)

Thanks, Dido

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:51, Reply)

+ L

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:53, Reply)

Textbook

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:55, Reply)

I'm all about the Stukas myself

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)

Stukas are like your face SHIT
now the 109 was a good German plane
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:26, Reply)

Turn it in Joe Dolcie.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:28, Reply)

Stukas were a vital part of Blitzkrieg
One of the major reasons Rommel eventually lost in North Africa (other than the Navy intercepting his supply ships using Ultra decrypts) is that the Jadgstaffel were more concerned with getting high fighter kill scores than providing ground support for tanks etc.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:38, Reply)

They worked very well when they had air supremacy, such as is Spain

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:44, Reply)

Well Spain mainly had the plane

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:53, Reply)

LTI
FOR YOU ZE INTERNET IS OVER
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:10, Reply)

I like Bristols

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:33, Reply)

MMMmmmmmmm Bristols

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:48, Reply)

In a bizzarre twist,
you spend every Sunday afternoon round the back of your local church taking larger vicars in your 'browning'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:13, Reply)

*golf clap*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:23, Reply)

doffs cap

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:34, Reply)