Blenheim mk.1(F): winggun and gunpack

[bearoutwest]

Amazing how many books you can stack on top of a sturdy scanner!

Here's the photo of the twin 20mm Hispano cannon Blenheim.

This is guess-work on my part, but I think this photo (from Roy C Nesbit's book Coastal Command in Action 1939-1945, p32, Ref: AIR 15/560) is of a Blenheim Mk.I, based on the shallow depth of the gun-pack. Pictures of the Blenheim Mk.IVf's show a deeper gun-pack, required due to the deeper chin of the long-nose Blenheims. Major leap of faith, but this is possibly L6787 involved in the twin 20mm cannon trials at Martlesham Heath A&AEE.

...geoff

[andy bird]

Think the images are from an early version manufactured at Southern Railway's Ashford Freight Yard. There were problems with the cartridge ejector shoots, dispensed cartridges got wedged in and weren't able to fall away freely. New drawings were done - originals held at Duxford.

Andy