To Vickers Wellesley’s experts : technical questions

[Juha]

Hello Babin
not being Wellesley specialist and I don't even have time to dig out my Wellesley material but some short comment
the circular antenna is a normal direction finding antenna

Yes Wellesley carried its bombs in underwinging panniers

Twin rear gun wasn't standard but IIRC at least during the East-Africa Campaign at least in one Wellesley sqn they upgunned their a/c, for ex installed the side gun, so a twin rear mount is entirely possible

Juha

[dp_burke]

The detail under the DF antenae whihc you thought might be a gun is the window structure. There was a trangular window made up from the geodetic structure on each side of the fuselage.

Do a google image search for Vickers Wellesley and you will see it much clearer on photos and models.

Perhaps you can read French better than me:
http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww2...ellesley-2.gif


A well finished model of a Wellesley
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...%3Divns&itbs=1

I explect that the third seat is inside whre the windows are.