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RAF Reconnaissance Aircraft Part 2 |
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Back in 1938 Sidney Cotton had written a
paper on the 'Future Requirement of Photographic Aircraft'. He could see
the need for an aircraft, possibly with 2 engines with room for more
that 2 cameras, a ceiling of at least 34,000 feet, with a top speed of
450 miles per hour and last but not least, a range of 1500 miles "In
principle, the machine should always be faster that the fastest fighters
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The type of
cameras
installed depended on the type of mission being undertaken. The most
widely used fit was a single
K17 or K8AB fitted with a 12in lens mounted
forward of the aircraft, a split vertical pair of F52 cameras mounted
behind the wing and an F24 oblique camera mounted on the port side. |
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There were a number of variants of the
photographic reconnaissance Mosquito |
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A total of only 10 PR I's
were produced, because this aircraft had proven to so useful, a further
29 Mosquito B.IV bombers were converted to PR I standards and designated
PR IV. They had increased fuel loads with tanks being fitted in the
bomb-bay, giving them 700 gallons compared to the PR I's 540
gallons. Later some of the original PR Is had this conversion. |
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PR XVI |
PR 34 |
![]() Mosquito PR34 RAF Benson 1945 |
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This
profile of a Mosquito PR I based a RAF Benson was produced by and is the copyright of Santo Russo Please visit his site FW190 & Other Aircraft |
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Part 1 Spitfire |
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Part 3 coming soon |
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