| a: | WARPAINT SERIES No. 1DRAWINGS BY MARK ROLFEans. BEAUFIGHTER ONE of the builtin disadva Jesigned fighter aircraft 1 including the BAC Lightning has always ages of British nc up to and been the question of range and endurance The thought that the Brish Isles was only a small area prompted RAF Fighter Command (0 specify a shorter range fir its aircraft jnirements. as. pre-war concepts did not envisage operations beyond the country’s own shores. ‘These concepts affected the nstriction of miost fighter ait design and raft and although some brilliant designs did appear such as the Spitfire and Murricane which were fast and n le, they sac ificed endurance for these qualities plus what atthe time was thought to be af and hard-hitting armament Ie was therefore thanks to the far sight ddness of such aireratt designers as de favilland, and Frise at Bristol, who realised hat there would be a need for aircraft like Beaufighter and Mosquito which could ake the war to the enemy over his own ter ritory or have sufficient endurance to main: patrols when i defence of the home land, Inthe same way that the Mosquito wa private venture sponsored by the manufac ‘One of the first of four prototypes of the hae the charaetoristic. black and white Underside af RAF Fightar Command at ‘hat time, IMAP) torpedo bomber for RAF € later to be called the Beaufort, F sam set about developing the which not only had the ability to slay i the air for considerable periods, but also nent to make it «formidable SIMILAR CONST 1 realised that most of the components Beaufort could be By Alan W. Hall Although ft ie known that this pleture w taken. in 1942, the squadron ject. The wing was sufficiently stro undercarriage did not need altering and the uselage was essentially the same ver supplied by the Beaufor’s Taurus engines was, however, insutficient and therefore the newly developed Bris Hercules engine of some 1,300 hp. was adapted and the forward fuselage modified to allow for the unequal centre of gravitythat resulted. The wing was also set lower on the fuselage though it bad the same basic lichens a te Bewalort, Armament hitherto unconsidered and massive, 20-mm cannon and six 303 in. machine guns. It gave the Beaufighier a heavier fire Power in excess of anything that the RAF was a that time likely to possess i its mpi Ty expanding inventory It was soon realised that the same jigs that ‘were being used to build Beauforts could be alapled for Beaufighter construction and ait: craft of both types could pass dowa the same production line depending on Service requirements. ‘The Air Ministry in the immediate pre ‘ar period was beset with problems most oF which came from limited budgets. being available to prepare themselves for a war that was, even by the mid-1920s, thought to be inevitable. The exponents of the heavy fighter quickly realised that the proposals from Bristol were one way in which they could atain their requirements withthe min ‘imum of expenditure, emphasised as design development proceeded, by the fact that a mere 2,100 drawings were needed to com- pletely change from Beaufort ‘0 Bewbfighter production, Accordingly, four prototypes: were ating with No.252 Squadron, Command. The squadron undertook patrols over the Bay of Biscay agsinet Gormen fighter aircraft attacking Allied ‘antisubmarine aircraft in the U-boat w: PAGE 2 BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER WAAPAINT ordered and cight months after the design hhad been initiated, the First of these (R20s flew from Filion on 17 July 1938 with Captain Uswins at the controls. There fol- lowed an immediate contract for 300 machines to Air Ministry Specification F789, PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT Bristol went further than just the Beaufigher design visualisng that thece could be & num ber of different designs stemming from the ‘one prototype. They looked into the possi bility of @ bomber version with a ctew of thee and a dorsa’ turret anda the same time went into the possibility of slimming down the Beaufighter for extra speed and manoeti vrability in implied critisism that the new not be able to defend itseif well ‘against the then modern single fighter. The resulting design studies were quickly known as the ‘sports’ moxlel but although Bristol Type Number 156, 157 and 158 were allocated to the project, the Type 156, which by that time had offically been named Beaufighter, was the only one which ‘went into construction. Little was it realised atthe time thatthe aircraft would be adapted for RAF Coastal Command, not only as a bomber bur a formidable attack aircraft armed with rackets, torpedes of bombs in addition to its cannon and machine gun armament when used on anti-shipping strikes later in the war inswer to the Air Ministry's raft mightBristol Beaufighter camouflage and markings | = = =Beautighter attached itt Intruder duties during 1941-1942. The ‘craft had an overall ROW-2 Night camou: ‘lage scheme with the code letters a The first two squadrons w be equipped were Nos.25 and 29 who each received one icrait in carly September 1940. The latter was fully operational with the wpe by the nd of that month followed by No.25 Squadron in early October. ‘The first Luftwaffe night bomber to fall to a Beaufighter's guns was a Junkers Ju 88 Which was shot down on the night of 11 November 1940, Filed with AL and the uprated Hercules s, the first operational version of the hter was the MkII, Work on the MII with Merlin XX engines continued and these came into service in the nigh, fighter role shortly afterwards, The nacelles used for the Merlin were in all respects si ilar to those used on the outboard engines of the Lancaster but needed a wedge-shaped imermediate bay carrying the firewall and throttle connections, Design and adaptation work was eared out by Rolls Koyee at Hucknall and the installation was built by Morris Moors at Cowley, Oxford. A total of 450 Beaufighter Mk.lIs were completed by 2270 was a standard Bi ‘raft has the tailplane sot at @ dihedral langle of 12 degress, » modification retre- Fitted to all Beautighte caw im due course. us Bristols on their Filton production lin The only ather mark of Beaufighter to be fitted with Merlins was the MK-V. This \corporated 2 Boulton-Paul four 303 ‘machine gun turtet immediately aft of the pilot's cockpit with a fairing over the normal ‘obsecver's position midway down the fuse lage. Two aircraft R2274 and R2306 were converted at Filton and sent to Boscombe Down for evaluation purposes.The tun proved to be inadequate for the job as not only dic it cu back the Beaufighter's formi- dable cannon and machine gun armament but also cut down the top speed by the drag it produced. Test pilot reports also indicated that if the pilot had to abandon the aircraft the turret would have buen a definite obsta le to his egress through the top pane! of the cockpit canopy. Further tests with No.29 Squadron proved these points and by the carly months of 1942 the design was aban ones, Although the Beaufighter was a powerful aircraft it did have its disadvantages, aot the least of which was the fact that the view from the cockpit was reduced huge bulk of the Hercules e left and right hand sides. This was somewhat improved in the Mk. If fiteé with Meclins, Dut even so attempts were continuously made to improve this and the tendency ofthe raft wo be directionally urstable also led co ontisism during its early months of opera tional service BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER WARPAINT PAGE 5Boaufighter Ml.ll T3032 was fittod ext mentally with « long fuselage strake that ‘went from the fin to just aft of the second crew member's position. it was not put ‘duction but the ides was redntro- A twin fin and ruddered Beaufighter was adapted from a MK.I airframe and another 2s fitted with a broad chord tailplane to try and overcome the problem, Eventually it ‘was found that by simply adding 12 degrees of dihedral to the tailplane most of the usta ble characteristics were overcome and. the ‘modification was incorporated on all subse- quent proxluction sircral Other modifications amongst the many that were tried out on early Beaufighter peo duction aireraft included the fiting of ‘Younpiat-Fairey bellows-iype dive brakes which were operated hy a venturi system under cach wing. The AT Mk.VIT radar that ‘operated on the centimetric band had a tim ble radome rather than the double dipole installation of the earlier MKIV and was experimentally fitted to X7579 and later became standard equipment. Armament experiments included the fitting of two 40- Booutightor Mk. R258 was fitted with PAGE 6 BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER WARPAINT. mm cannon 0 th but these we the lick of intemal space ammunition. Engine experiments including the fiting of Rolls Royce Exe cowlings an a MkIT was adapted 10 take the Griffon TTB A Beaufighter Mk.II also bad an extended dorsal fin which, although not immediatly fourth prototype R208S liver abandoned hecause of e Beaufighter Mk.X of 194] there were no develop During the sume less th and experimental work lage by the installation of a rag this produced cut ‘top speed considerably land the project was eventually ebandened fftor No. 29 Squadron trials OTHER COMMANDS Apart from the capabilites of the Beaufighter as a nigh: fighter it was soon realised that this aircraft had great potential as the war progressed and the need for long range fi er and escort duties developed, Beaufighter's rugged construction appealed particularly to Coastal Command for exam ple, who wanted nirsraft to protect their anti submarine aircraft operating in the Bay of Biscay and which were subjected to attacks by German long range fi In the Middle East Beaufighters were needed because of their long range to counter enemy perations in) Greece atid Crete as well as over the battlefields of the Westem Deser. Modifications were made tothe standard aircraft which included the installation of xdditional radio and navigationsl equipment and the iting ofa chart table for the observ srabove the cannon feeds. Additional range Was another requirement ands 50-gallon fuel tank similar to hat already installed inThis picture of two Coastal Command Boaufightor Miles was taken at the time when the aircraft ware being retrospec: tively fitted with a dihedral tailplane. The ‘shipping patrot heading out o Sea. (MAP) the Wellington bomber was fitted to the fuselage floor, Later this gave way 10 a re design of the wing to increase fuel tankage Beaufighcers of the two variants were dis. on of the letter °F in ished by the a ease of « pure fightoraircrat and 'e" for a Coastal Command aireraft immediately behind the mark number. Thus the first eauligher o be acapied to the maritime role, R212S, became a Mk.Ic and the follow ing 8) production aircraft were built at the Weston and Fairey factories, The first RAF Coastal Command squadeon t0 be equipped Boautighter TMX NE221 was built at (ld Mixon and was capable of carrying flthor a Sritish 1 172 inch torpede. with the Beaufighter was No.2? based at Chivenor and later Aldergrove Beautighters were also based at Malta by July 1941. Operated by No.272 Squadron, they were in the thick of the fighting that went on whilst British conveys. were artempting to force passage to the belea uered island or pass through the narrow confines between Malta and North Africa. In month they sbot down 49 enemy aircraft and damaged 42 more Although preceeded by Hurr A unique picture of a rocket fri BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER WARPAINT PAGE 7‘A Benutighter Mi VIF awaiting delivery to ‘squadron. This must have boon an early production aircraft as it retains the old {ype dipole aerials of the Al MicIV Beaufighters belonging to RAF Fighter ‘Command weat over Io the offensive at night during the middle of 1942 carrying out intruder operations against enemy airtiek and ground installations in northem France. On & particularly daring daylight sortie an airerat of No.236 Squadron flew at tee-top level to Paris on 12 June 1942 where the crew dropped a French ineolewr on the Arc de Triomphe and then shot up various mili tary installations in the city before escapin without opposition, In the spring of 1943 several Fighter Command Beaufighter squadrons incladin Nos, 255 and 600 wore moved to North Africa where they arrived in time to belp speed the Germans on their way back 10 Sicily A No.600 Squadron pilot achieved notable success in shooting down five Junkers Ju 52 iransporis in one engagement over & ten mintte period during the period that air transport was the only means of escape from Tunisia. Later these wo squadrons roverted to the night fighter role to cover the landings in Sicily and at Salerno before following the advancing Allied troops dluring the Haan c this. im loaned to United States Army Ait Force units for night fighter duis, ‘The intensity of & Beautighter Strike Wing stack can be realised in these pictures of facket-armed alrcraft flying at very low level over a Gorman convoy. Rocket and ‘cannon firing pasaes were made in the frst instance to achieve surprise and supprose ‘any antiaircraft fire before torpedo carry. ing Beaufighters moved in to sink the ships In the convoy. (Wn) BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER WARPAINT PAGE 9BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER TF.X NE355.2 4 of No.40e Squaron,eary 190 Apart from intraer work aver enemy ter: ry. RAP Fighter Command Beaufighters initiated another technique for night opera ons. By 1943 the Lancasters and Halifaxes of Bomber Command were carrying the war deep into the heart of Germany by night but also suffering fairly heav at the hands of the Lal ent night fighter fo e. Beaufighters. par ‘The North Coates Strike Wing, one of sev: oral in Coastal Command which dealt with enemy shipping off the coust of Europe Uused the Beaufighter MIX. This aircraft, RDS79ION-F. shows. the modification ta ‘the observer's position by the provision of ss mounting for'a 303 machine qun. (MAP) paso aes dlarly from No.219 Squadron flew with the bomber stream and equipped with For ward and rear mounted radar enticed enemy fighters to home on the transmissions. By Waiting for just the right moment they were able to execute a rapid 180 degree tum tak ing the enemy night fighter conmpletcly by iting on his tail. ensured sunpriseand, after g its destruction, Later these tactics were fur but the f was by then hecoming outclassed hy the Mossi and a special group was formed for these operations. Even so Besutighters. were y this task nti AL Mk VIL conver ther developed Filed it tions was the ME.VIF which had 1 Hercules XVI engines giving a considerable 35 hp TORBEAU RAF Coastal Command operations a enemy shipping off the European co ‘meanishile continued but the B: rot entirely siitable for the task Ministry definite need for a had uufort was. and Ai ports decided that there was heavily 194) fr the jas int March Beau fightervisible Biscay with Co ive f al Command tn the defen oped lighter. Based on the Mk Vie theit siggestions were Haion prev he Bewufighter production, In the short time four days X8065 had been withdrawn from jeeped in April 19 make a t ine it did not imtrf the Weston prodaction line and transfered 1 Fillon where it was modified by 24 Apel 10 take either a Bi 2 inch torpedo fitted with small "wings om the Fear si that it ide into the water without the aircraft having oe atthe correct height and distance MAP approval, initial ‘ton followed by take precise from the target. A trials ‘undertaken the airraft being transfered to the Torpedo jpment Unit at Gosport, Hants on 8 May. X8065 crashed durin Permission wns given for atrial squadron of 16 aircraft to be equipped and No.254 Squadron began taining with their new ai cuit, entering operations a few months later Suecess came in Apa 1942 wher tw enemy ships were tore: Ni in cost by Tote Subsequently the Hercules Nik. with which they were rodific have exopped impellers and automatic carb reitory which sited! Tow level operations, he aircraft were also fitted with a rear mouat 303 machine gun in the observer's position, ‘These 1 work had been ples in all subsequent Beaulighier from both Wes rckport and the ait Je Mk.X. Th 2 ut the Beaufighter apart from ASV rai in a thimble radomie similar to that ofthe AT Mk VIT was fitted wo the nose und a large dorsal fin wasee BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER | > Mks. I, Viand x Drawings by David Howley =: =<[After initial service with the manufacturers ‘and then with ARAEE Boscombe Down, Boaufighter Vit, X7883, was used opera: tionally by No.317 Squadron. It became Part of reverse lendlease wien handed ‘Over to the USAAF on 1 October 1943 and Continued its night fighting dution. This Dicture was taken in January 1942. incorporated for additional directional sta bility ‘Atiacks on enemy shipping were stepped up and due to speed and surprise, achieves remarkable success, But the Beabfighter was SMill capable of development and as early as Seplember 1942 Mk.1Ve FI329 was fitted with rocket rails under each wing and proved to be & very stable firing platform for this form of stack By April 1943 tactics had heen developed fo sucht an extent that Stike Wings of Beaufighters, some equipped with arpedoes PAGE 14 BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER WARPAINT and others with rockets for enemy ping operations had been formed. The rock et and gun fring aircraft attacked first sup. [essing the opposition’s fire power fol Towed by the Teebeaus coming in at tow Ievel to release their weapons. Strike Wings comprising Nos. 143, 144, 'S, 236 and 254 Squadrons of the RAF and No.d0i Squatton RCAF, No.455 Squadron RAAF and No-489 Squadron RNZAF were iiually based in Scotland for attacks on enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast Which were carrying Swedish iron ore back to Germany. These were followed ay the squadrons moving south to East Anglian haces atthe time ofthe invasion of Europe in support of the shipping in the Chanoel and the E-boat attacks which were active against the invasion forces and were based mestly in Holland. Pairs of Beaufighters operated in & reconnaissance role and when they spotted the enemy torpedo boats they were attacked by the whole Wing which was waiting in readiness at their home bases. The results from these counter invasion tactics. were totally worthwhile and led to a number of highly successful operations. Similarly, Beaufighters in the Mediterranean were organised into Stike Wings and cremy shipping attacked in daylight, The Italian liner Rex was hit by $5 rocker projectiles on 8 September 1944 near Treste and was sunk Beaufightor TF.Mk. X in factory fresh cor dition seen shortly after roll-out from the Woston-superMaro factory. This variant waa fitted with two Bristol Hercules XVII ings of 1.770 hp. Visible under the o tre fuselage ‘are the crutches for the 18 Inch torpadto normally carried by the type hen on anté-shipping operations.BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER VHF X3029 £01 of No, 500 (City of Lancon| Sauadon. Dverall Night back nish, grey colecor rings an engines medi sea gray codes 3d BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER TF.MI.X D251 ON of No2S4 Squacion, NAF Coastal Command, 1944. Dark grey upper aurlaces with Sky undersides Red codes and back al repeated under both wings. Rad and whit verigalstnpas ato fuselage codes, BRISTOL BEAURIGHTER TF.Mc. X/NE775.X2 of No4SE Squaciion, 1984, ta dark 2 gfOY and sky camoulage scheme. Invas on strives ercitcling lueloge and wings ngines. Cades beleved efi sky the distances involved in the war he Japanese in the Pacific. the Beaufighter was considered an ideal aircraft for both fighter and stike operations Accordingly, some 54 Miles were shipped Ausralia in 1942 from a Fairey-built f hatch and plans were putin hand for prevtuc tion at the Government Airoraft Factory at Fisherman's Bene Designated the Mk.21. Australian pro: juction used the standard Hercules engine for the Mk.Vle but with a Bendix earburet ot. AS a precaution against the failure t supply sufficient engines one aircrat modified to take (wo Wright Cyclone GR. 2600-A5B power plants but it was not fe necessary to continue with the project as su ficient production sources were available snd the Australian Beautighter, which di fered little feom the MBX went into produc with the first one flying on 25 Ma 1944, A total of $69 Beaufighters were built in Ausiralia before pe cond of 1948. At the end of the war in Furope most ction ceased at theBeaufighters prepared to move to the Far Fast leaving only few strike aircraft at Js. Other squadrons were disband= quipped and the aircraft became obsolescentin a very short while. Production ended at Fikon in early 1944 and atthe oxhe two production lines. in September 1945, Even so, No-84 Squadron retained its Mk.Xs unl 1949 and No.5 Squadron did not relin (quish theirs until 1950 when both units were bused a Kuala Lanpar Unlike other types in RAF service few Beautighters were exported. A batch of 24 BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER Mk. VI ToO58- bolived 10 be an slvr Squadron daead in Maa, 1942, Dark earth and mice stone Sky codes, black serial 8nd propeller hubs blue underside BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER TF.Mk. X_NV215. Teansfored to ch b ME.XS Was sold 10 Turkey, 16 went to Portugal in 1946 and ten more were special ly modified to Mk VI standard and exported to the Dominican Republic n 1948, No civil application for Beautighters was envisaged though six surplus MkXs were foverhatled at Ringway by the Fairey Aviation Company in 1947. Five of these were purchased by « film company whilst fone erased at Theme leaving the remaining four to be exported to Israel in 1948, Nothing appears to be known about their eventual fate markings in white. Red rudder, yelow code and black spine I Bo isis Denufighter TF.X NT921 was fitted with lunderwing and fuselage racks for four 2501 bombs. It was used for anti-shipping Ittacks at the time of the Allied invasion of Europe hence the provision of black and ‘white bande round the wings and fuselage, (map) (One Mk.Vic was used by the Bristol Engine Division for testing the Hercules 130 Fitted with four-bladed propellers in 1946. ‘This aieraft was subsequently given to RAP Halton No.L School of Appreatice Training as an instructional airframe. Bast L BEAUFIGHTER WARPAINT PAGE 17BRISTOL REAUFIGHTER MF 1322 —-_Mk.Xe like RDBZ8 wore used on counter insurgency duties by No.84 Squadron until ie dibanded in 1949. (MAP) Right: Boaufighter TT.MlcX RDS2 VE was u ‘utioe in the Far East, a With large numbers of surplus Beaafighters available it was not long after the end of World War 2 that another role was found for the aircraft, that of target tug. The idea to use Beaufighters for this purpose was originally proposed in 1942 as an altemative to the Miles Monitor, but the project was dropped The first target tug conversion was nade to a MKX NT9I3, this dying for the frst lime in May 1948 fited with a standard ‘windmill winch on the starboard side. Designated the TT Mk.10 35 Beaafigiers were converted inthis way with deliveries to the RAF from Filton beginning in 1948, Most were used overseas a! Gibraltar, Malt, Cyprus, Ceylon. and Malaya. The last air worthy’ example RDT61, was retired and scrapped at Seletar, Singapore on 16 May 1960, Thus ended a career that spanned 21 years from the Might of the fist Beaufighter in 1939, In all 5.564 were built in the UK whilst an additional 365 came off the Australian production line There are believed to be some 12 Beaufighters still in existance in past o: whole. The best of these is RD253 which is held by the RAF Museum and was recovered fom Portugal. Otbers include RD867 which ‘vis found i Malta and was exchanged for a Bolingbroke by the RCAF Museum in ‘Ottawa, One Australian aircraft has survived A8-186 and is now in the Camden Meseum fof Aviation, Several others are thought to be under reconstruction from small pats of the original airframe or cockpit area, It is believed that the ex Halton Beaufighter is with Skysport Engineering at Hatch Befordshire BEAUFIGHTER KITS AND DECALS Injection moulded kite Conversion parte nd nares Decale aa Po Maceie ae Sastre Me a Senutgres Re ‘eeet R08 No.8 So [BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER WARPAINT PAGE 19Beaufighter i in detail fighter cockpit. Access was gained through the floor forward folding seat. Note the spectacte-shaped cc im who! onthe oem et Trot we on Beaufighter showing tho flame damping panel to the tear of the engine. A bulge on th tarriage door does nct always appear on each variant. Nor treular leading edge air intake. 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