In article <XnsA7447E015246BHortenzyFortensnort@216.166.97.131>, Andrew Chaplin
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>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
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>> In article <XnsA74477CC9A377HortenzyFortensnort@216.166.97.131>, Andrew
>> Chaplin says...
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>>>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>>>news:ob8ja901clc@drn.newsguy.com:
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>>>More Halifaxes.
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>> The one at the bottom was the Manchester...
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>The one the right? Nope, those vertical stabilizers with their swept-back
>leading edges are diagnostic of a Halifax B.I or an early B.II.
>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Handley_Page_Halifax.j
>pg
"While the Manchester was designed with a twin tail, the first production
aircraft, designated the Mk I, had a central fin added and twenty aircraft like
this were built."
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>From the shape of the nose of the aircraft in the distance on the left,
>that, too, is a Halifax.
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>Your next picture is of the same two aircraft, just moments later, as can
>be told from the letters on the fuselage of the landing aircraft, "X-KN"
>from 77 Squadron of 4 Group, RAF, which flew Halifax B.IIs out of
>Elvington in North Yorkshire.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._77_Squadron_RAF
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