Episode 1 - The Project and Beginnings of the Bomb Bay 

Thank you Mike!!!

Thank you!!!

Thank you Wayne!!!

I would like to see them if thats alright?

Hi Alan, thanks for getting back in touch. If you can let us know what you have we'd be very interested John

@@johnlathwell7667 WM18 Vertical Mill & Chester Crusader lathe. I am an ex Shorts Belfast apprentice, Now retired so a bit of time on my hands.

Thanks Alan, think Andy P might be in touch😊

Thank you Neville your videos are definitely the inspiration for documenting the project!!

Thanks Stuart! Just to let you know a good couple of photographs used in this video are from RAF Oakington.

RC models are getting bigger and bigger. I strikes me that a half scale model of some aircraft can't be far away.

@@chrisst8922 Maybe, though there was a real half scale Stirling!!

For years I was troubled by the thought process's behind the naming of the BBMF, as at its inception it only had 1 airworthy Spitfire 1 Lancaster and a Dakota ! .....a bit of a misnomer really since A/ in 1940 the Lancasters unfortunate forebear the Manchester didnt even pass its acceptance trials by 207 Squadron till the end of December 1940 - three months after the BB had ended and only entered operational deployment in January 1941 the same time as the Stirling, with its uprated and corrected version the almighty Lanc not being introduced into operational service until February 1942, and B/ try as I might I cannot find ANY reference anywhere to ANY Manchester or Stirling being deployed tactically in the hard won aerial defence of these Islands, Battles and Defiants yes at a push, but Manchesters and Stirlings no, not to take anything away from the Manchesters or Stirlings or all the brave crews who fought and tragically died operating them but they would have been about as useful in an aerial defence role as a chocolate fireguard. The BBMF has expanded over the years to its present compliment of half a dozen or so Spitfires of various marks, several Hurricanes, and half a dozen other types various, and in my humble opinion it should be reconfigured to fly ONLY operational types that actually took part in the Battle itself, with a far bigger seperate flight containing every other air worthy type that actually flew whether it actually saw action during the whole conflict or not.....I think it could possibly save quite an amount of Square pegs from being destroyed simply for not fitting neatly into round operational holes

@@atilllathehun1212 Yes you are right. It was called the Short S36....a half scale flying model of the type constructed to prove the viability of the airframe....which was a usuall practice for Shorts.....sadly though it was scrapped after a take off accident in February 1944

@@usernamesreprise4068 = You really DON'T remotely have a clue what you're talking about Re : 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙙 1 𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 1 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝘿𝙖𝙠𝙤𝙩𝙖 = You're wrong !! Hawker Hurricane LF.363 was THE a/c that 'kicked-off' the BBMF even if it wasn't named as such, officially = Why don't YOU actually mention LF.363, given it actually WAS "numero uno" in the flight (having been donated) They THEN went on to acquire a Spitifre (I can't remember which one), purely as a match for the already donated Hawker Hurricane LF.363 which once again (to mention) was THE a/c that started the BBMF The Lancaster (PA.474) wasn't even airworthy (again) until 1971 I'm probably older than you, as it first flew over my head in 1972 (over my school playing fields) painted up as Nettleton's "KM-b" It was restored "off hours" by 44 Sqdn's mechanics BTW (Waddington) The Dakota in question, didn't even join the flight until the early 1990's !! So how T.F do YOU work out "Dakota at the BBMF's inception" F.F.S Man, you're talking such drivel & completely misleading folks here !! I first saw the BBMF (collectively) myself at Biggin Hill in June 1974 Even that date is 16+ years BEFORE the BBMF's Dakota arrived !!!! Please state facts, not talk bollocks & utter drivel, lest YOU mislead people

Hi Michael yes so far the front section of the fuselage forward of Frame 14 is the only part we are planning to build. If you skip the video to 1:32 it shows a diagram of what we are hoping to build.

Hi Andrew what was the issue with the audio for you? Nobody else has mentioned it so far!

@@TheStirlingAircraftProject It was a bit on the quiet side, I did have to turn my volume up. Best of luck with the project going forward.

Thank you Stephen I will see what I can do to get the volume higher on the next episode!