Thread: Westland Lysander

Originally Posted by Canberra Man

Have any of you seen the developement of the Lysander for bombing and strafing German troops if they landed on our beaches. It had a slightly shortened fuselage the tailplane was replaced by a Delanne style of wing with twin fins and rudders and a four gun turret a la Lancaster. The bombs would have been 25 pounders on a light series bomb carrier on each spat carrying 4x25 pounders. What did the powers that be thought the Me 109s would be doing!!!!

Ken

Hi C.M.
Yes there certainly was such an animal.
When I was building my 1/4 scale version Lysander, I stumbled on quite a few photographs and drawings on the net.
Why not try copying this address "forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-54778.html",then click on "searching for the weirdest plane ever2, when the window opens.
You will find this the one after my model picture.
I believe it was not put into production in numbers.
Then try punching "Westland P12" into the search address of your home page.
Cheers
Keith
ps , Kyt if your'e earwigging try it yourself, amazing !!!!