Name that Flying Machine
A phrase coined by "Roger Bacon", purported writer of the "Straight and Level" page at the back of Flight International.
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"Flight " has always run a really good quiz just before Christmas - one way to be a "TAP" is to get most of the answers right.
"Uncle" Roger Bacon was the (fictional) name of writer who wrote "Straight & Level" - the irreverent final page of each edition of Flight
Straight & Level still graces the monthly edition but IIRC they retired Uncle Roger when they went to a monthly edition.
"Uncle" Roger Bacon was the (fictional) name of writer who wrote "Straight & Level" - the irreverent final page of each edition of Flight
Straight & Level still graces the monthly edition but IIRC they retired Uncle Roger when they went to a monthly edition.
the cockpit looks bit like a Fokker XX but its not
I think its the Ogden Osprey.......................
The Ogden Osprey was a three engine, high wing monoplane airliner which seated six. Designed in the United States and first flown in the spring of 1930 or earlier, six were built and some used commercially before Ogden Aeronautical ceased trading in the Great Depressio
I think its the Ogden Osprey.......................
The Ogden Osprey was a three engine, high wing monoplane airliner which seated six. Designed in the United States and first flown in the spring of 1930 or earlier, six were built and some used commercially before Ogden Aeronautical ceased trading in the Great Depressio
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Roger Bacon was (mostly) the late Mike Ramsden; one of our fellow PPRuNers, also very sadly late and greatly missed, was an erstwhile defence editor at Flight and seemed to share JMR's wonderful sense of humour so I suspect he may have shouldered some of the responsibilities of producing Straight and Level each week. Haven't read Flight in a very long time - not even surreptitiously in Smiths - so no idea if S&L and TAPs are still prevalent amidst its august pages...
I still subscribe and S&L is still there in the monthly print edition (TBH I find the web based stuff a turnoff) - there are occasional references to TAPs but the humour isn't quite so edgy
In the latest edition (march 23) they have a go at Megans claimed flight on ANZ from Mexico to the UK (?). problems with mobile phones at an Airbus event, retained domain names for dead airlines and the horror of seeing O'Leary having to host a Ryanair press event in a luxury London Hotel with canapes instead of the usual shack with coffee and boiled sweets. They also do "From the Archive - 1923. '48, '73 & '98"
In the latest edition (march 23) they have a go at Megans claimed flight on ANZ from Mexico to the UK (?). problems with mobile phones at an Airbus event, retained domain names for dead airlines and the horror of seeing O'Leary having to host a Ryanair press event in a luxury London Hotel with canapes instead of the usual shack with coffee and boiled sweets. They also do "From the Archive - 1923. '48, '73 & '98"
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I bought Flight weekly for a while, then discovered Pilot circa 1983. But S&L drew me like a Siren's call, so a quick shufti each week was a must.
wait 24 hours......................
Oncemorealoft has it - the Miles/HP Marathon
looks like a big engine but the cockpit is well forward - I have a nagging sense I've seen it before - back to the William Green books I think
Possibly the Folland f108 testbed???