The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures

[Silas Blattner]

Aerohack - I think you have control by default - until Treadigraph returns from his break.

SB

[sycamore]

As it`s gone quiet...........

If I drink any more Mackeson I`ll turn into one of "Henry`s".........

[spitfire]

Could be anything built by the Stout Metal Aeroplane Company, including the Ford Tri-Motor.

[sycamore]

S2 and Spit, correct. The Stout 2-AT was designed by WB Stout as a s/e a/c , later to become the 3-AT with 3 engines, and later still there is controversy whether the Ford 4-AT was designed by Stout, but the company had been bought out by Ford, so highly likely..

[spekesoftly]

Are you one of a number of Airspeed aircraft that shared their names with automobiles?

Or could you be the Westland Limousine?

[BEagle]

Bristol (Bristol) Beaufighter, Fairey (VW) Fox, DH (Riley) Hornet, Hawker (Hillman) Hunter, Sepecat (Jaguar), Gloster (Jowett) Javelin, Hawker (Riley) Kestrel, Avro (Lincoln) Continental etc, Hawker Siddley (Aston Martin) Nimrod, Avro (Ford) Prefect, Sopwith (Humber) Snipe, Supermarine (Triumph) Spitfire, Chrysler (Vickers) Valiant, Handley-Page (Vauxhall) Victor, Vickers (Austin) Victoria...........??

Just a few RAF ones - there are lots of others!

[spekesoftly]

Aw Beags, I was resisting the 'name them all' technique!

Oh well, here's a few more:

Airspeed - Ambassador (Austin/Mahindra), Consul (Ford), Cambridge (Austin), Oxford (Morris).

Fairey Gordon (- Keeble) ..... bit tenuous

Blackburn (Daimler) Dart, Armstrong Whitworth (Triumph) Ensign, HP (Triumph) Herald, Vickers (Standard) Vanguard, Bristol (Berkeley) Berkeley, Saro (Austin) Princess.

[Tim Inder]

Not forgetting the Supermarine (Reliant) Scimitar of course!
(No points for guessing which version's my daily drive!)

[spekesoftly]

Keeping with the automobile theme:

My (similarly sounding) namesake once made model racers.

[BEagle]

Aurora - but that doesn't exist, of course..........

[spekesoftly]

Not Aurora. Trains could also be a common theme.

[Aerohack]

<<Gawd - what have I started!>>

I know how you feel. I once started jotting down notes for a planned magazine article on aeroplanes and cars with common names. When I reached 300+ without any serious research I gave up.

[BEagle]

Fouga Zephyr
Ford Zephyr
Silver Streak Zephyr

A French aeroplane, a British car and an American train.......

[spekesoftly]

BEagle,

Nice one, but not what I had in mind.

My maker also made locomotives, and my (identically sounding) namesake, the models.


SP2,

Yes, to all 4 Qs.

[Silas Blattner]

English Electric Wren ?.

[spekesoftly]

Silas & SP2,

Correct. As well as making model trains, G.& R. Wrenn produced some 1/52nd scale model electric racing cars in the 1960s - Wrenn Formula 152.

[Silas Blattner]

Is this a well known participant or ........ ?

http://www.futurshox.net/viewer.php3?id=480

Think of me as a lightweight ATP.

[treadigraph]

Cor - is everybody thinking? I am, but it hasn't proved productive so far...

Monoplane?

[Woomera]

English Electric Wren?



"I love PPRuNe"
(Added to make up the minimum number of characters!)

[Silas Blattner]

Yes monoplane. ATP as in British Aerospace Advanced TurboProp.

The clue maybe lost on non Brits / Europeans, and the participant could be flying the picture - not part of the clue. - SB.