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It is the Short L.17 , two were built Scylla and Syrinx. Akubra's photograph shows Scylla (G-ACJJ) with Captain O.P.Jones at the controls.
CH Barnes in his book 'Shorts Aircraft since 1900' published by Putnam relates a story regarding the Short L.17 handling. The story has it that when Capt Jones was flying Syrinx on one of its last flights in WWII he was landing at Westland's airfield at Yeovil, where the airfield had just been elaborately camouflaged with dummy 'hedges and ditches' sprayed on to the grass with a mixture of paint and sawdust. This looked very realistic on a dull November afternoon, and Capt Jones, with very little load on board, managed to land across the airfield from north to south in about 50 yards, coming to rest without actually over-running any of the painted stripes.
Next morning Westland's chief test pilot, Harald Penrose, had to deliver a Lysander to Boscombe Down:he made a typical 'three-point take-off' in his best Lysander demonstration manner and continued climbing at more than 45 degrees. Capt Jones then took off,unsticking the Syrinx in about twice its own length, and climbed equally steeply, though in a level attitude. This spectacle seriously misled another visiting pilot, following in a Miles Whitney light monoplane, into thinking there was a strong westerly wind shear, but in fact there was very little wind, and his determined leap off the ground was followed by a stall, from which he only just managed to recover without damage.
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