The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures
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Wooden primary structure and a biplane, and as far as I'm concerned, you can have as many questions as you like - but too many would defeat the enjoyment of the game n'est-ce pas
Third edit - second atempt. On further reading here's a difinitive description: Wooden fuselage, metal empennage, combined wood and metal wing, the whole fabric covered.
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Third edit - second atempt. On further reading here's a difinitive description: Wooden fuselage, metal empennage, combined wood and metal wing, the whole fabric covered.
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No, not that one Aerohack, but your're going in the right direction.
I do like this game, it's increasing my knowledge no end. I'd never head of the Surrey Flying Services AL 1, so I looked it up. Pretty little thing, isn't she. Sadly, I can't say the same for the subject machine!
I do like this game, it's increasing my knowledge no end. I'd never head of the Surrey Flying Services AL 1, so I looked it up. Pretty little thing, isn't she. Sadly, I can't say the same for the subject machine!
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As far as I'm aware, she deteriorated gradually over the years. The current custodians list her on the net as part of their collection (I'll post the URL when you've guessed her). The fuselage frame and some of the empennage are extant - at least, that's what was left when I saw her in 1990 or so.
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Are you perchance the Parnall Pixie III? Started life as a biplane with detachable upper mainplane, later pure monoplane. Some parts of G-EBJG held at the Midland Air Museum...
Perhaps you are the Wheeler Slymph?
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Well Done Treaders, I am indeed the Parnall Pixie.
I was built in Yate, close to my home in Bristol, and I'm one of two Parnall aircraft existing. The other is the Elf in the Shutleworth Collection.
In 1923 the Daily Mail and the Duke of Sutherland sponsored competitions designed to stimulate light aircraft development; Parnall entered a single seat low wing monoplane, the Pixie, built in two forms with 13hp and 26hp Douglas engines. The Pixie won the £500 Abdulla Company prize for speed. The aircraft produced for the 1923 Lympne Trials were unrealistic machines being too lightly-powered to be flown in even modest winds and in 1924 the Air Council announced another competition for higher powered two seaters. Bolas revised the Pixie to produce both a monoplane and a biplane with an upper wing called the Pixie III and Pixie IIIA respectively. Both were powered by 32hp Bristol Cherub III engines. Neither Pixie was successful in competition as both suffered forced-landings with engine trouble. The Pixie III was entered again in the 1926 Lympne Trials and finished fourth.
The Pixie's remains certainly rest wih the MAM:
http://www.midlandairmuseum.org.uk/about.html
Here's a picture of the biplane:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...eiii32hplg.jpg
The small wing mono:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...peed30hplg.jpg
and the long wing mono:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...longwinglg.jpg
There were several other mono/biplanes in the trials - the Supermarine Swallow and Halton Minus spring to mind.
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Yes LowNSlow, you called? - Ah, I missed the edit. No, see above.
I was built in Yate, close to my home in Bristol, and I'm one of two Parnall aircraft existing. The other is the Elf in the Shutleworth Collection.
In 1923 the Daily Mail and the Duke of Sutherland sponsored competitions designed to stimulate light aircraft development; Parnall entered a single seat low wing monoplane, the Pixie, built in two forms with 13hp and 26hp Douglas engines. The Pixie won the £500 Abdulla Company prize for speed. The aircraft produced for the 1923 Lympne Trials were unrealistic machines being too lightly-powered to be flown in even modest winds and in 1924 the Air Council announced another competition for higher powered two seaters. Bolas revised the Pixie to produce both a monoplane and a biplane with an upper wing called the Pixie III and Pixie IIIA respectively. Both were powered by 32hp Bristol Cherub III engines. Neither Pixie was successful in competition as both suffered forced-landings with engine trouble. The Pixie III was entered again in the 1926 Lympne Trials and finished fourth.
The Pixie's remains certainly rest wih the MAM:
http://www.midlandairmuseum.org.uk/about.html
Here's a picture of the biplane:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...eiii32hplg.jpg
The small wing mono:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...peed30hplg.jpg
and the long wing mono:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...longwinglg.jpg
There were several other mono/biplanes in the trials - the Supermarine Swallow and Halton Minus spring to mind.
Aibedane
Yes LowNSlow, you called? - Ah, I missed the edit. No, see above.
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Oh, sneaky Airbedane. I'd already dismissed the Pixie because it hadn't survived as a biplane! And, would you believe, sitting within a hand's reach is a plan for a model of it — I'm sure you know the one.
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treadders has obviously slipped out for lunch so I'll fill the breach.
Probably due to my lack of success only one component of mine is extant.
Probably due to my lack of success only one component of mine is extant.
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Nah, late in due to a weather challenging haircut...
NOW I'm on lunch!
Are you fixed-wing?
(PS: good thread mate, must be the fastest growing ever on AHN!)
NOW I'm on lunch!
Are you fixed-wing?
(PS: good thread mate, must be the fastest growing ever on AHN!)