Identify this aircraft?
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Identify this aircraft?
The BBC are running a story about a mysterious aircraft flying over the Wem/Sleap area of Shropshire.
Here's the photo they put up...
I'm pretty certain that's a Britten-Norman Islander - any info from the locals?
Here's the photo they put up...
I'm pretty certain that's a Britten-Norman Islander - any info from the locals?
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I thought of the Verhees Delta too, but as I remember its trailing edge is less straight, and curves in rather than slightly out as pictured.
(nb for those confused with its F-P registration: the designer is Belgian, and the plane is based in Belgium - but the French experimental register is slightly less hard to access than the Belgian counterpart. Many Belgian experimentals/homebuilts have F-Pxxx registrations.)
(nb for those confused with its F-P registration: the designer is Belgian, and the plane is based in Belgium - but the French experimental register is slightly less hard to access than the Belgian counterpart. Many Belgian experimentals/homebuilts have F-Pxxx registrations.)
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Having studies the photo along with a fellow aviation person, the back aircraft could be a Broussard and the lower object a winged flying suit, parachutist.
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That's not the right trailing edge shape for the Taranis. And it's not a VariEze either, as the Sleap airfield spokesperson suggests in the BBC piece. But if it's near Sleap/Wem then the chances of neither Sleap nor Shawbury knowing are very slim. It's inside the Shawbury MATZ so highly likely to have been talking to them.
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Thanks 'PK as I said I know what the tin triangle is but was wondering why you would use something as unsophisticated as a straight wing type as chase plane. Maybe all the Shropshire aero club members have been sworn to secrecy?
Somebody tried to photograph a model aircraft. There was a moth on the lens. Photo actually taken near Loch Ness. Photo quality degraded due to passage through digestive system of large amphibian. Photographer missing. Possible alien abduction.
Could be another UAV?
A bit of a longshot, but it could be another UAV such as the BAE Kingfisher, if they were doing trials into swarming or close formation flying (e.g. for in-flight refuelling feasability trials).
BAE Kingfisher. Specifications. A photo.
Otherwise it could be a derivative of the BAe Stabileye UAV from the 1980s.
BAE Kingfisher. Specifications. A photo.
Otherwise it could be a derivative of the BAe Stabileye UAV from the 1980s.