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Well all such units were purely experimental at the time, it was not until early 1943 that they were operational and in April I suspect there were no more than two flyable units available, along with some bench models.The question, for me, is what this aircraft was doing with an H2S aboard. At this time, there was a huge debate in the RAF about whether or not the magnetron should be allowed anywhere near the continent because the Germans would be able to easily reverse engineer it.And yet, here it is being flown over the continent long before it even entered production? That seems like madness!Is there any possibility the system was not operational and they had simply removed the magnetron and rhumbatron for this mission, if not the entire system?
Well all such units were purely experimental at the time, it was not until early 1943 that they were operational and in April I suspect there were no more than two flyable units available, along with some bench models.
The question, for me, is what this aircraft was doing with an H2S aboard. At this time, there was a huge debate in the RAF about whether or not the magnetron should be allowed anywhere near the continent because the Germans would be able to easily reverse engineer it.
And yet, here it is being flown over the continent long before it even entered production? That seems like madness!
Is there any possibility the system was not operational and they had simply removed the magnetron and rhumbatron for this mission, if not the entire system?
