What Cockpit? MK VI
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OK, so what do we know?
It has one engine.
Mention of the Wyvern made it "get interesting"
The CTP - according to his Canadian friends (maybe he wasn't Canadian though), drank panther's piss and smoked something foul. Not much Rye or Sweet Caporal available on the Eastern side of the Atlantic back then, I'm thinking?
Still none the wiser for a' that.
It has one engine.
Mention of the Wyvern made it "get interesting"
The CTP - according to his Canadian friends (maybe he wasn't Canadian though), drank panther's piss and smoked something foul. Not much Rye or Sweet Caporal available on the Eastern side of the Atlantic back then, I'm thinking?
Still none the wiser for a' that.
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Although I am not sure how this ties up with the CTP. Sqn Ldr W A Waterton Chief Test Pilot for Glosters for a period and was a Canadian. I believe and went back to Canada to Fly the CF-100. He was also involved in test flying the Gloster E.1/44 so perhaps this aircraft is the E.1/44.
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Looks like the Boulton Paul P111?
Planegill has it, the Boulton Paul P111!
I must admit the Canadian connection was somewhat tenuous in this context, but the inimitable Ben Gunn, MBE, CTP of Boulton Paul from 1949 to 1966 had good friends in Canada dating back to the BoB. When Ben later became Director of Shoreham Airport and spearheaded its revival, many DHC Twin Otters and Buffalos on delivery flights to the middle/far east routed through Shoreham as a transit stop.
I have it on impeccable authority that the UK's supply of Canadian whiskey and Sweet Cap fags may have been occasionally replenished.
Ben, of course, was better known for the contribution he made to the development of powered flight controls at BP. This led to him involuntarily leaving the later P120 as it disintegrated around him over Salisbury plain, following an aileron flutter event. To hear him retell it kept us young guys enthralled.
Over to you, Planegill.
I must admit the Canadian connection was somewhat tenuous in this context, but the inimitable Ben Gunn, MBE, CTP of Boulton Paul from 1949 to 1966 had good friends in Canada dating back to the BoB. When Ben later became Director of Shoreham Airport and spearheaded its revival, many DHC Twin Otters and Buffalos on delivery flights to the middle/far east routed through Shoreham as a transit stop.
I have it on impeccable authority that the UK's supply of Canadian whiskey and Sweet Cap fags may have been occasionally replenished.
Ben, of course, was better known for the contribution he made to the development of powered flight controls at BP. This led to him involuntarily leaving the later P120 as it disintegrated around him over Salisbury plain, following an aileron flutter event. To hear him retell it kept us young guys enthralled.
Over to you, Planegill.
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Sorry chaps. I didn't get an email to say my guess was correct. Then when I did notice I could not load a new photo for some reason. (It uploaded to photobucket, but just would not display.) I had to find another one.
A big clue for a big plane...
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This noise problem was so severe, that it prompted Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, then chief of the Army Air Service, after only one trip aboard, to order research into the area of exhaust silencing devices, the general having endured the ear-splitting roar of six Liberty 12-cyl engines for several hours
