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Old 19th Dec 2007, 08:37
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Not the Supermarine Stranraer, but it was British and was around the same time as the Stranraer.
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Vickers Supermarine Scapa?.... If not Vickers I`ll go for Blackburn Iris.
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Old 19th Dec 2007, 10:13
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I'll go for the shotgun approach then, Saro London?
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windriver - Not the Vickers Supermarine Scapa nor the Blackburn Iris.
Kitbag - Not the Saro London.
This aircraft was not a Supermarine,Saro or Blackburn aircraft.
That must narrow the field, watch out for the man from Canada who could steal it(just joking)

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Not many left now, except Short Brothers. Maybe a Singapore?
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kitbag - It is a Short's aircraft but not the Singapore.
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Oh hell!, just guessing anyway, the Kent?
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kitbag - Not the Kent, this aircraft was not a Bi-plane.
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Gordon Bennet, was there really an aircraft called the Knuckleduster? What a cracking name!
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That is the one

The Short R.24/31 (Knuckleduster).
The story is that the wing/nacelle joint was known as the 'knuckle' and the fact the aircraft never had any official name the aircraft was nicknamed the "Knuckleduster".
Only three prototypes were built, the role for which this aircraft was built was eventually filled by both the Sar London and Supermarine Stranraer biplanes.
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OK cheers Mel. I guess if one takes sufficient guesses one gets to the answer eventually. Surprisingly this seems not to have been done before:
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French Naval Aircraft perchance?
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Right nationality, but this one always had dry feet
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Dassault Ouragan?
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Not the Ouragan
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Is it the Mystere?
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Nor the Mystere
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one would rather say Mirage F1, coming from the same stables
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The Incivil Beast sneaks in and snatches victory from Windriver. This cockpit is from a Mirage F1CZ that was shot down over Angola in 1987 and was subsequently rebuilt as a basic Flight Simulator. The photo was taken shortly after the crash.
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Thanks kitbag.

Here is the next one



Don't look for the throttle

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