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Thank you Clint.
Unfortunately this photograph is not as clear as your one, however I am sure it will not last long.
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This was a British Aircraft mid 30s
Unfortunately this photograph is not as clear as your one, however I am sure it will not last long.
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Welcome to the thread. Nobody will be laughing at all. Sorry but it is not a De Havilland D.H.84 Dragon. This particular aircraft was not so famous.
Mel
Welcome to the thread. Nobody will be laughing at all. Sorry but it is not a De Havilland D.H.84 Dragon. This particular aircraft was not so famous.
Mel
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Not the Saunders-Roe A.27. This aircraft was not flying-boat or a seaplane.
I will add that unfortunately this aircraft had an unlucky ending.
Mel
Not the Saunders-Roe A.27. This aircraft was not flying-boat or a seaplane.
I will add that unfortunately this aircraft had an unlucky ending.
Mel
Mel,
Time for another WAG. British, mid-30s, a one-off, with an unhappy ending..........
How about the Vickers type 271. Built I think, against the specification which resulted in the Wellington but a failure which had to be completely re-designed in order to become to become in a later guise the Wellington.
Any good?
Time for another WAG. British, mid-30s, a one-off, with an unhappy ending..........
How about the Vickers type 271. Built I think, against the specification which resulted in the Wellington but a failure which had to be completely re-designed in order to become to become in a later guise the Wellington.
Any good?
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No not the Vickers type 271. This aircraft featured a development of a revolutionary wing structure
However, you were correct in that the Vickers Type 271, the Prototype B9/32 K4049 and forerunner of the Wellington, met an unfortunate end when it crashed following the failure of the elevator horn balance during a test flight in April 1937. The pilot was thrown through the roof of the cockpit and escaped by parachute, but the flight engineer, unable to get free, was killed in the crash. The aeroplane was completely destroyed.
Mel
No not the Vickers type 271. This aircraft featured a development of a revolutionary wing structure
However, you were correct in that the Vickers Type 271, the Prototype B9/32 K4049 and forerunner of the Wellington, met an unfortunate end when it crashed following the failure of the elevator horn balance during a test flight in April 1937. The pilot was thrown through the roof of the cockpit and escaped by parachute, but the flight engineer, unable to get free, was killed in the crash. The aeroplane was completely destroyed.
Mel
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Mel,
My last attempt at this one - the Armstrong Whitworth AW 23. I think just a single aeroplane was built, it's wing being stressed skin with I think stainless steel spars/ribs.
It was a one-off which eventually became the Whitley.
Howzat?
If that's not it, then I'm truly stumped!
My last attempt at this one - the Armstrong Whitworth AW 23. I think just a single aeroplane was built, it's wing being stressed skin with I think stainless steel spars/ribs.
It was a one-off which eventually became the Whitley.
Howzat?
If that's not it, then I'm truly stumped!
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Not the AW 23. Spars or should I say a Spar does come into this, this aircraft possibly had a great future but unfortunately lady luck played a hand.
Mel
Not the AW 23. Spars or should I say a Spar does come into this, this aircraft possibly had a great future but unfortunately lady luck played a hand.
Mel
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