Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

This cannot be correct
By the time the single Sterling arrived to USSR nobody wanted it. It had departed from UK
in Feb 1945 and arrived via Iraq in March. (SOC by RAF in March 1945)

It was more or less dumped into the hands of the Polar Aviation Division and when a British mission
arrived to help with the introduction during the Spring 1946 it was finally taken into service,
but little used.

What was Tuppaware OKB? Never heard of it. Why would anyone build 47 useless Sterlings postwar?
Makes no sense what so ever.

Cheers
Stig

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-...ling-in-russia :
"The Tuv-75P was a planned produce cargo development using non-strategic materials, with high content of plastics in its construction, based on a Soviet theory of keeping produce fresh by storage in plastics."

keeping produce fresh by storage in plastics courtesy of Tuppa'ware : don't you get it brotha' ????

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

Jesus what crap on that site.
Tuppa'ware is Tupolev and the "47 Tuv-4" are presumably Tu-4 of which a lot
more than 47 was built (1296 to be exact)
It had nothing to do with the Sterling what so ever (being a B-29 copy)
The Tuv-75P was the Tu-75 of which one was built
Not a single source mentions any derivative called Tu-75P. Can I have a Russian source for that please?
Cheers
Stig

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

Welcome after a long absence. I came across a claim by pilot Leopold ‘Poldi’ Fellererz of the 5th Staffel of Nachtjaggeschwader 2 that on 29.03.1942 at 01:02 he reported shooting down a Stirling in PQ 75884, which matches the presumed location of my fall . Which I don't think can be true, however, as the only suspect from that day https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibas...TFNxpsgdE6QEGA
returned happily to its base. Can someone please verify, clarify this information about quadrant PQ75884?

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

Location was sea 20km SW Helgoland according to Theo Boiten but W7507 got back to base

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

Thank you Chris for the quick reply, that means it's all clear, a mistake in the numbers :( So we keep looking.

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

I'm starting to run out of ideas http://www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk/w...Operations.pdf

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

Based on the numbers that are on this part, am I able to determine this Stirling? The only sensible number on this part is: R2371.
Others: 9292902 , 92992901, 9292551,
60MF
There is a V on the top of the screws

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

circular punches HCM62

Re: Missing Short Stirling over Poland?
 

It was created at Short Brothers, mark I May 1940 to May 1943. Can you establish where it went?