The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures
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Boy, you guys have been busy today!
BP P111 - my late father was a helper at the Midland Air Museum, the current home of the P111. Some years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Ben Gunn while looking at the P111 at Baginton during a family visit. It proved to be a facinating day!
Ugliest - I still think it's the BAe146, closely followed by the Buccaneer.
BP P111 - my late father was a helper at the Midland Air Museum, the current home of the P111. Some years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Ben Gunn while looking at the P111 at Baginton during a family visit. It proved to be a facinating day!
Ugliest - I still think it's the BAe146, closely followed by the Buccaneer.
Silver Streak? Hmm-good try. But I'm much faster than the train - and the Short Silver Streak, though pretty, was slower than the Silver Streak Zephyr train......
Hi Airbedane! No - ugliest ever has got to be the Blohm und Voss Bv141b....... But I grant you that the Bucc was no oil painting!
I guess you've been away on Easter egg duty??
Hi Airbedane! No - ugliest ever has got to be the Blohm und Voss Bv141b....... But I grant you that the Bucc was no oil painting!
I guess you've been away on Easter egg duty??
Vickers Type 950 Guardsvan -aka Merchantman ?
Single..?
jet......?
British...?
Steam..?
30-40`s
jet......?
British...?
Steam..?
30-40`s
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Had it not been British, I would have guessed the Grumman Mallard, but there was a class of locomotive called 'Bulldog', one of which was named 'Camel'.
Am I going in the right direction?
PS Didn't the Great Western operate where you spent your childhood years, BEags- http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_440_bulldog.htm
Am I going in the right direction?
PS Didn't the Great Western operate where you spent your childhood years, BEags- http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_440_bulldog.htm
Hi Airbedane! Yes - oi werrr Wesscoun'ry born. Me, that is, not the ac in question on this thread.
The railway spotters would squirm if they heard someone refer to 'Mallard' as a train - for 'twas a locomotive!
"I sound as though I'm a train - and I went like one!"
The railway spotters would squirm if they heard someone refer to 'Mallard' as a train - for 'twas a locomotive!
"I sound as though I'm a train - and I went like one!"
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Well, that's got both aircraft and 'train' spotters alienated - who's next!
The Wright Flyer ran on rails and it sounds a bit like a 'train', but then you wanted something British?
Pre, or post WW2?
The Wright Flyer ran on rails and it sounds a bit like a 'train', but then you wanted something British?
Pre, or post WW2?
I hope I didn't alienate either train or aircraft spotters - that wasn't the intention! But referring to a locomotive a 'train' is to them, I understand, as offensive as someone describing an aeroplane to you or me as a 'plane'.....
The 'sound' is in my name, not my noise! But I'm not the 'Westland 7.36 to Waterloo' or the 'Bristol 6:44 to Birmingham'
The ac was much faster than the train
- and it was pre-WW2.
Edited to add - by 'sound', I mean that my name sounds like the name of a train, of course!
The 'sound' is in my name, not my noise
! But I'm not the 'Westland 7.36 to Waterloo' or the 'Bristol 6:44 to Birmingham'The ac was much faster than the train
- and it was pre-WW2.Edited to add - by 'sound', I mean that my name sounds like the name of a train, of course!
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Westland Wapiti......at50% cut-off, and regulator wide-open ...!
Speechless Two - you have control!
The Gloster VI Golden Arrow it is! 2 of these racing seaplanes fitted with Napier Lion VIID engines were built for the 1929 Schneider contest; one of them established a world speed record of 336 mph on 9 Sep 29. The same year, the prestigious Golden Arrow Pullman railway service started from Victoria to Paris - it would leave London at 1100 and its colleague, the Fleche d'or would leave Paris at 1100. The Golden Arrow rail service was hauled by proper chuffing steam locomotives until 1961, then electrified. It was finally discontinued in 1972.
In addition to both the aircraft and the train, there was, of course, a 3rd Golden Arrow in 1929, Henry Segrave's very handsome car – also powered by a Napier Lion - which broke the world land speed record at 231 mph on Daytona Beach.
Quite a Golden Arrow year was 1929!
The Gloster VI Golden Arrow it is! 2 of these racing seaplanes fitted with Napier Lion VIID engines were built for the 1929 Schneider contest; one of them established a world speed record of 336 mph on 9 Sep 29. The same year, the prestigious Golden Arrow Pullman railway service started from Victoria to Paris - it would leave London at 1100 and its colleague, the Fleche d'or would leave Paris at 1100. The Golden Arrow rail service was hauled by proper chuffing steam locomotives until 1961, then electrified. It was finally discontinued in 1972.
In addition to both the aircraft and the train, there was, of course, a 3rd Golden Arrow in 1929, Henry Segrave's very handsome car – also powered by a Napier Lion - which broke the world land speed record at 231 mph on Daytona Beach.
Quite a Golden Arrow year was 1929!
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The variously named American Gyro/ Shelton Flying Wing. Crusader. Circus. ???. Dohhh that wasn't later than the Defiant.
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Ahhh, me favourite... or one of them...
Arrow Active!
'BVE used to fly over my house regularly when Lewis Benjamin/Tiger Club owned it...
Assuming I am right, I'm not too PPRuNe active meself at the moment for work and social reasons, so if someone else would oblige with the next clue...
(Incidently had a nice old bi-plane floating ethereally over my head a couple of years ago - no idea what it was until I read a copy of Aeroplane Monthly properly last night - the Spartan Arrow, now apparently down at Redhill. What a lovely aeroplane!)
Arrow Active!
'BVE used to fly over my house regularly when Lewis Benjamin/Tiger Club owned it...
Assuming I am right, I'm not too PPRuNe active meself at the moment for work and social reasons, so if someone else would oblige with the next clue...
(Incidently had a nice old bi-plane floating ethereally over my head a couple of years ago - no idea what it was until I read a copy of Aeroplane Monthly properly last night - the Spartan Arrow, now apparently down at Redhill. What a lovely aeroplane!)
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Whoa! Treadders, the bank holiday obviously did you good!
I have that (rather ugly) extended fin fairing from the Active sitting in my garage, purchased at Old Warden for 50p when Des Penrose was restoring it to its original configuration. Of no use whatsoever, of course, but sufficient to know that many a skilled pilot sat just ahead of it, not least the late Neil Williams.
I have that (rather ugly) extended fin fairing from the Active sitting in my garage, purchased at Old Warden for 50p when Des Penrose was restoring it to its original configuration. Of no use whatsoever, of course, but sufficient to know that many a skilled pilot sat just ahead of it, not least the late Neil Williams.