Vickers Wellington

Gotthard Heinrici · 26-02-2008, 01:51 PM

Here is an interesting page about one of the RAF's mainstay bombers at the start of the war. Excellent photos of a surviving "wimpy":

Vickers Wellington in detail

Gotthard Heinrici · 26-02-2008, 01:53 PM

RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary

And here's another page about it. It really is a lovely plane

Its interesting looking at the pic of the original

Bodston · 26-02-2008, 03:47 PM

adding in Gerry Tyack's excellent Wimpy museum http://www.wellingtonaviation.org/ in my home town of Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Well worth a visit.

von Poop · 26-02-2008, 04:02 PM

Still not been there, must pop in when heading South one day.

The 'loch-recovered' Wellington at Brooklands was a fascinating thing, still with no skin when I last visited so the whole complex structure was revealed:
R For Robert Wellington Bomber photo - Simon photos at pbase.com

Gotthard Heinrici · 26-02-2008, 04:06 PM

Excellent stuff lads! Great posts

4th wilts · 26-02-2008, 04:17 PM

still waiting for info from my library,some a/c came down in my old town.i mailed them 3 times,still no info.a day trip to chippenham library again methinks.lee.

Peter Clare · 26-02-2008, 04:23 PM

A bit more on R Robert.

Loch Ness Search by Sonar and Underwater Cameras, Operation Groundtruth

4th wilts · 26-02-2008, 04:47 PM

lots of people when asked the best twin bomber in ww2 reply,mosquito,b25,b26,ju88,he111,japanese betty,pe-2 or the tu-2.they all did well in their own way,but the wellington was a lovely bomber,good bomb load and great design,allowing it to take some damage,big time.yours,4th wilts.

26-02-2008, 01:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,495	Vickers Wellington Here is an interesting page about one of the RAF's mainstay bombers at the start of the war. Excellent photos of a surviving "wimpy": Vickers Wellington in detail __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

26-02-2008, 01:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,495	RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary And here's another page about it. It really is a lovely plane Its interesting looking at the pic of the original __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

26-02-2008, 03:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
Bodston Very Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner Posts: 1,295	adding in Gerry Tyack's excellent Wimpy museum http://www.wellingtonaviation.org/ in my home town of Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Well worth a visit. __________________ My mother told me, I never should, play with the gypsies in the wood.

26-02-2008, 04:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,679	Still not been there, must pop in when heading South one day. The 'loch-recovered' Wellington at Brooklands was a fascinating thing, still with no skin when I last visited so the whole complex structure was revealed: R For Robert Wellington Bomber photo - Simon photos at pbase.com __________________ It's only the Internet.

26-02-2008, 04:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,495	Excellent stuff lads! Great posts __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

26-02-2008, 04:17 PM	#6 (permalink)
4th wilts Discharged Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: wessex Posts: 1,043	still waiting for info from my library,some a/c came down in my old town.i mailed them 3 times,still no info.a day trip to chippenham library again methinks.lee.

26-02-2008, 04:23 PM	#7 (permalink)
Peter Clare Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Windsor UK Posts: 5,006	A bit more on R Robert. Loch Ness Search by Sonar and Underwater Cameras, Operation Groundtruth __________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by

26-02-2008, 04:47 PM	#8 (permalink)
4th wilts Discharged Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: wessex Posts: 1,043	lots of people when asked the best twin bomber in ww2 reply,mosquito,b25,b26,ju88,he111,japanese betty,pe-2 or the tu-2.they all did well in their own way,but the wellington was a lovely bomber,good bomb load and great design,allowing it to take some damage,big time.yours,4th wilts.

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