This is exceptionally good!

Emotional pic for an old fart like me

Nice landing!

amazing. im looking for someone to do a halifax bomber, we are putting togeather a museum peice for my grandad who piloted a halifax during ww2, unfortunatly out of the raid of 400 aircraft he was in the 3% that got shot down, the german pilot is still alive to tell the story.

The picture will be hung in a special place above the memoribilia, about Fred Harris (my grandad) and the other crew that lost there life and also in a book we writing about the whole episode.

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B@d@$$ work!

man, this is amazing..

WOW
LOVE THIS ONE

Its a Blackburn Perth i am pretty sure ...anyway lol

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
sometime when you get 5 do something like this for my own underrated fav seaplane the Supermarine Seagull MK V (or as it was known by the RAF Walrus) which was designed by RJ Mitchell of Spitfire Fame, once more for use by the RAAF on the RAN's Cruisers and also the HMAS Albatross - the RANs seaplane Carrier.

It was proven to be such a success that the RAF then 'pinched' the design and re named it the Walrus.
Its also worth mentioning 3 important things in regard to the Seagull

1) the first RAAF Operational Deaths (as against non op or training deaths) in the ETO and also in the war itself were a Pilot and a WOPAG flying an operation while attached to 10 RAAF Sqd (Sunderland - the Lanc of the flying boats..) under MI Orders along with a RAF and MI Officer to evacuate the Family of Charles de Gaulle to England.
The cause off the loss is unknown all that is known is that they crashed in France with no survivors with an engine on fire before reaching the planned RV with the Family who were later recovered by a RN Unit as the airspace was now 'too dangerous for RAF Operations'.
(most likely fighters or FLAK).

2 RAAF Detachments suffered incredibly high loss rates on RAN Cruisers in the war, with usually all or a large majority of the small detachment killed in the actions involving the loss of HMA Ships Sydney (1941) Perth (1942) and Canberra (1942).
Also when HMAS Hobart was torpedoed and seriously crippled by a IJN Submarine the RAAF and Engine room sections were to suffer the majority of casualties.
Also when HMAS Australia was hit repeatedly by Kamikazes wounding almost all her bridge staff and killing her captain once again the RAAF Boys were hit badly.
Seagulls were also shot down during spotting operations for the Cruisers - one of the best known the loss of HMAS Sydney's aircraft while bombarding Bardia in North Africa in 1940, with no casualties, as the aircraft force landed ashore safely while avoiding attacks by fighters for which the pilot was awarded the DFC with immediate effect based on both his Captains Report (JA Collins RAN Later wounded in the Attacks on HMAS Australia and now along with Hec Waller who Captained HMAS Perth when sunk, both remembered on the Collins Class Submarines of the RAN HMA Submarines Collins and Waller) and also no less a person then the OC the of med fleet Andrew Cunningham RN.

3 Seagull MK Vs or Walruses were instrumental in the post war exploration of the Antarctic region (and many other locations) and completed many firsts in both wartime and peacetime periods both before and after the war.

i also thought you may find what's written below on the Perth Flying Boat of interest.
there is a link i can give you if your interested that has full scale plans of flying boats including - sunderlands/seagulls/catalinas/perths/ and many many more.

stephen aussie

Blackburn Perth Seaplane

The Blackburn Perth was a British flying-boat during the inter-war period.
It was essentially an upgraded Iris, hence the largest flying-boat to serve with the Royal Air Force at the time (and the largest biplane flying boat ever to serve with the RAF).

The Blackburn RB 3A Perth was designed as a replacement to the earlier Blackburn Iris to Air Ministry Specification 20/32.
Developed from the Iris Mk. V, the Perth first flew in 1933.
It differed from the Iris by replacing the Rolls-Royce Condor engines of the Iris by more powerful Rolls-Royce Buzzards and having an enclosed cockpit for the pilots.
Unusually, in addition to its normal armament, the Perth was fitted with a Coventry Ordnance Works (COW) 37 mm auto cannon in its bows.

The Perth entered service with the RAF in January 1934,when the second aircraft was delivered to 209 RAF Squadron at RAF Mount Batten in Plymouth ( future home to both RAAF Sunderland Squadrons in the war 10 RAAF and 461 RAAF).

Perths remained in service until 1937, being replaced by the Short Singapore and the Saro London seaplane types.
One aircraft was retained by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment (MAEU) until 1938.
Only 4 Aircraft were ever completed for service use, and were flown by 204 RAF Sqd and 209 RAF Sqd, along with the MAEU.

Specifications (Perth)
Data from Aircraft of the Royal Air Force -
1918-57

General characteristics

Crew: Five
Length: 70 ft 0 in
Wingspan: 97 ft 0 in
Height: 26 ft 5½ in
Wing area: 2461 ft²
Empty weight: 20 927 lb
Loaded weight: 32 500 lb
Max takeoff weight: 38 000 lb

Powerplant: 3× Rolls-Royce Buzzard MK II MS 12 cylinder water-cooled inline engine's producing 825 hp each.

Performance

Maximum speed: 132 mph
Cruise speed: 109 mph
Range:1300 mi
Service ceiling: 11 500 ft
Rate of climb: 800 ft/min
Wing loading: 13.2 lb/ft²
Power/mass: 0.076 hp/lb

Armament

1 × COW 37 mm automatic cannon in bow
3 × .303 in Lewis guns in bow, amidships and tail positions (1 each).
Up to 2000 lb bombs or depth charges additionally.