Hello Woodsy,
One of the things about the Lysander design was the rugged undercarriage that allowed it to land on grass fields. An important part of why it was used by SOE to land agents in France. The secret was the u-beam that supported it seen here in scan 1.
Scan three has the trade review of the aircraft and the others are the kind of ad that made me want to design trade ads rather than consumer ones.
Not necessarily of interest to the blog but possibly explains why I like the Lysander.
Some years ago when we went to the then new Aviation Building of the Smithsonian in Washington I was surprised to see a Lysander hanging from the ceiling. It was painted black in the agent landing role it took on later in the war.
The US had been sent three Lysanders to evaluate during the war. I speculate that one was presented in black because OSS agents were landed in France by Lysanders thereby giving a US connection.
There are some interesting videos on Youtube.
Terranova47
USA
I have to admit I'd never heard of this plane until you sent in this Post Terran. very interesting along with yesterday's modelling post of yours too. You are very creative: trains, planes and automobiles. Its all there.
ReplyDeleteThere have been numerous plastic kits of this type, with Frog, Airfix, and Matchbox all producing models in 1/72nd scale, Matchbox also did a 1/32nd scale version. They were used in the Battle of France in 1940, but suffered high losses, and later for landing agents and supplies in Occupied Europe. My first Matchbox kit was a Lysander.
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