Waiting Room, page-13

OK, lets be positive - leave the cars for a moment and look at this.



It is an animation of the Bristol Hercules double row sleeve valve radial.  Look at all those gears.

Why should we look at it - because it powered the Bristol Beaufighter which was built in Australia (at Avalon? near Geelong) It was a real buzz of an aircraft - large, strong, fast, it could carry all the bulky radar of the day and had 8 machine guns in the wings and 6 cannon up front.  DYOR.

Scared the sheet out of the other guys who called it 'whispering death'

We do still make aircraft in Oz - The Tiger attack helicopter is made in Brisbane, but we should make much more - pollies are spineless.