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Antennae

Most of the Mk. IV's antennas are mounted on the right-side wing (as seen from the cockpit). Oddly, looking over available photographs, most show the left wing. This does not seem to be limited to the Beau, many aircraft seem to be flying to the left in photos. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:15, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Questions about references to Bowen|1991

We have no biblio reference for this. Is it meant to be Bowen|1998? Juan Riley (talk) 22:03, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed - a cut and paste bug, now fixed. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Test bed system

What is a test bed system? It is mentioned in the lead but not in the body of the article, and therefore the statement appears to be unsourced. Neelix (talk) 01:02, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilinked it to Article Test bed. Sufficient? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 14:30, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for addressing the issue of clarifying what a test bed is! There remains the issue that the statement appears to be unsourced; there is no mention of a test bed in the body of the article, and, consequently, no source. Neelix (talk) 23:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The RDF 1.5 section describes this; it discusses the in-flight tests that took place in 1936. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:14, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Blenheim Details

In the 'Pye Strip' section the article refers to the Blenheim IF as being fitted with four .303 MGs and four 20mm Hispanos, with the turret removed. All standard reference works show both the Blenheim IF and IVF as fitted with four .303s only, and with the turret as standard. While the turret may have been removed in this specific instance, there is simply no way to mount an additional four 20mm Hispanos on the aircraft, even the much smaller .303s had to be fitted in an external gun-pack. Bristol Aircraft Since 1910, C H Barnes, Putnam, notes that in attempts to upgrade the firepower of the Blenheim fighters a single aircraft was modified with 2 20mm Hispanos, but had to give up the 4 .303s to fit them. Casting further doubt on this section of the article, a reference is made to Blenheim IIFs, when in fact only a single Blenheim II was built. The references given to support these statement appear to link to works on radar, not on aircraft, which may explain the error. 92.238.224.101 (talk) 19:08, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::Thanks for addressing the issue of clarifying what a test bed is! There remains the issue that the statement appears to be unsourced; there is no mention of a test bed in the body of the article, and, consequently, no source. [[User:Neelix|Neelix]] ([[User talk:Neelix|talk]]) 23:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 :::The RDF 1.5 section describes this; it discusses the in-flight tests that took place in 1936. [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]] ([[User_talk:Mike Christie|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mike_Christie|contribs]] -  [[User:Mike Christie/Reference library|library]]) 14:14, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
+== Blenheim Details ==
+In the 'Pye Strip' section the article refers to the Blenheim IF as being fitted with four .303 MGs and four 20mm Hispanos, with the turret removed. All standard reference works show both the Blenheim IF and IVF as fitted with four .303s only, and with the turret as standard. While the turret may have been removed in this specific instance, there is simply no way to mount an additional four 20mm Hispanos on the aircraft, even the much smaller .303s had to be fitted in an external gun-pack. Bristol Aircraft Since 1910, C H Barnes, Putnam, notes that in attempts to upgrade the firepower of the Blenheim fighters a single aircraft was modified with 2 20mm Hispanos, but had to give up the 4 .303s to fit them. Casting further doubt on this section of the article, a reference is made to Blenheim IIFs, when in fact only a single Blenheim II was built. The references given to support these statement appear to link to works on radar, not on aircraft, which may explain the error.
+[[Special:Contributions/92.238.224.101|92.238.224.101]] ([[User talk:92.238.224.101|talk]]) 19:08, 7 October 2015 (UTC)