Name that Flying Machine

[Tu.114]

A monoplane. The fairings below the wing likely contain the aileron drive gear. What strikes me is the structure looking like a pitot tube mounted quite far away from the fuselage, which IŽd consider pointing towards an odd number of engines with one mounted in the nose.

So - three engined? If so, Italian?

[Tu.114]

Piaggio 23R?

[Asturias56]

Not three engined, not Italian

[Zaxis]

British, tricycle under carriage, AW Albermarle?

[Asturias56]

Yes, yes, no

[Zaxis]

GA Cygnet?

[meleagertoo]

Jeez! How does anyone identify an aeroplane from that????

[Asturias56]

there are trees........................

[asw28-866]

One of Edgar’s?

[Asturias56]

Originally Posted by asw28-866

One of Edgar’s?

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[Asturias56]

Not a Cygnet either

[thnarg]

Looks like the front of a Fairey, but not one of their trikes.

[Noyade]

Looks to be the Supermarine 322 Dumbo?
But I'm not getting the Tricycle clue mentioned above?

[Zaxis]

Supermarine 322?

Tricycle = 3 wheels, should have said nose wheel !

[Noyade]

I always thought tricycle to mean a nosewheel? As opposed to a tail-dragger? Or as Wiki likes to call it - "Conventional."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricycle_landing_gear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_landing_gear

[Asturias56]

It is indeed the Supermarine 322 "Dumbo"

Apologies - I'd forgotten the special meaning of "tricycle" when I answered Zaxis - I just thought - "yes three wheels"..............

I shall sit in the corner with a dunces cap on for an hour.................

Amazing that it took several years to actually reach first flight in 1943 - so much pressure on Supermarine to crank out Spitfires - which, to be fair were war winning whereas the 322...... was unlikely to trouble the history books

[Noyade]

All in good fun A56. No need for caps and corners and I had fun yesterday looking at British nose-wheels from the 40s and 50s. There was more than I thought.
And just for you - another starboard wing, and not just trees - buildings as well!

[Noyade]

British.
Tricycle...

[sandringham1]

Plane trees, do I win.

[Zaxis]

GAL 55 glider?