Name that Flying Machine
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Ahhhhhhhh so!
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Indeed it is. The Mark II, to be precise. Less repulsive photographs can be found at Manshu Hayabusa
fauteuil volant has control.
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..... the Manchurian Manshü Hayabusa?
Come to think of it though, it's on a par with Fairey naming their lumbering T.S.R.1 after the Swordfish.
Now here's a vehicle that's worthy of the name - the Suzuki Hyabusa, the world's fastest production motorcycle:
The logo is a stylized version of the Han character for Peregrine Falcon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Hayabusa
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I guess they were being aspirational. A closer Hayabusa was this:
Nakajima Ki-43
The photograph is chosen to illustrate what they did before Photoshop.
Nakajima Ki-43
The photograph is chosen to illustrate what they did before Photoshop.
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Indeed, evansb, but one would expect the aeroplane in the photograph to look like a GA-43 when it is a GA-43! Over to you, sir, assuming that you now have sufficient qualifying posts.
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They named an aircraft after Croydon? Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs...
21 minutes - before FV get it - hard to get a picture that didn't give it away I'm afraid - it was pretty distinctive. From Google:-
The General Aircraft ST-18 Croydon was a 1930s British cabin monoplane built by General Aircraft Limited (who were originally Croydon based).Following the mixed success of the earlier Monospar family of aircraft, the company designed a ten-seat light transport, the ST-18 (later named Croydon). Due to the longer-span wing, it was not a cantilever monospar wing but had to be fitted with bracing struts. The ST-18 was a low-wing monoplane, with a conventional tail unit and tailwheel landing gear, and hydraulically retractable main gear. It was powered by two Pratt & It was powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior radial engines mounted on the wing leading edges. It had a crew of three, and a cabin for ten passengers, a toilet and baggage compartment.[1]
On 16 November 1935, the sole aircraft (T22, later G-AECB) first flew at Hanworth Aerodrome, piloted by Harry M. Schofield. It performed well, but did not attract any orders, so the aircraft was prepared to establish a record for an Australia to England flight. On 30 July 1936, Lord Sempill, Harold "Tim" Wood, and two other crew left Croydon Airport for Australia. On 7 October 1936, during the return flight from Darwin, navigation errors occurred during the flight over the Timor Sea, and the aircraft made a successful forced landing on a coral reef (Seringapatam Reef). The crew members were immediately transported off the reef by local fishermen, and the aircraft was abandoned.
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The General Aircraft ST-18 Croydon was a 1930s British cabin monoplane built by General Aircraft Limited (who were originally Croydon based).Following the mixed success of the earlier Monospar family of aircraft, the company designed a ten-seat light transport, the ST-18 (later named Croydon). Due to the longer-span wing, it was not a cantilever monospar wing but had to be fitted with bracing struts. The ST-18 was a low-wing monoplane, with a conventional tail unit and tailwheel landing gear, and hydraulically retractable main gear. It was powered by two Pratt & It was powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior radial engines mounted on the wing leading edges. It had a crew of three, and a cabin for ten passengers, a toilet and baggage compartment.[1]
On 16 November 1935, the sole aircraft (T22, later G-AECB) first flew at Hanworth Aerodrome, piloted by Harry M. Schofield. It performed well, but did not attract any orders, so the aircraft was prepared to establish a record for an Australia to England flight. On 30 July 1936, Lord Sempill, Harold "Tim" Wood, and two other crew left Croydon Airport for Australia. On 7 October 1936, during the return flight from Darwin, navigation errors occurred during the flight over the Timor Sea, and the aircraft made a successful forced landing on a coral reef (Seringapatam Reef). The crew members were immediately transported off the reef by local fishermen, and the aircraft was abandoned.
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... navigation errors occurred during the flight over the Timor Sea ...
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Thank you, Asturias56. The Monospars are always distinctive in their forward areas because, unlike so many twins, the engine cowlings and the nose are broadly inline (rather than the former being aft of the latter).
Continuing with the use of cropping, here's an image that I've cropped to exclude this aeroplane's most distinctive feature.
Continuing with the use of cropping, here's an image that I've cropped to exclude this aeroplane's most distinctive feature.
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Claggin' on
Boxes & Tins
all seem to fit................
Claggin' on
Boxes & Tins
all seem to fit................
Today I received this rather curious PM from Fauteuil Volant:
Good morning SLB
For some reason unknown to me, someone unknown to me appears to have decided to deny me access to the Aviation History & Nostalgia Board (but not, curiously, the rest of the forum). For that reason I've not been able to respond to the posts, subsequent to my clue of yesterday, on the 'Name that Flying Machine' topic. Thus would you please do me a favour and, by way of a valedictory comment, post that the mystery aeroplane is the Peyret/SFCA Taupin and the Mickey Jupp song, offered as a clue, is 'Cross Country', the Taupin having been developed, post-war, as the Lignel 44 Cross Country. And if you'll do so, that will conclude my involvement with that topic and, in all probability, the PPRuNe forum.
Regards Fauteuil Volant
I do not know if there have been any or previous exchanges between the mods and Fauteuil.
I do not want to start any discussion on that.
I do hope that this is all some kind of error or mistake and that we may welcome back Fauteuil in the near future.
My next challenge:
Good morning SLB
For some reason unknown to me, someone unknown to me appears to have decided to deny me access to the Aviation History & Nostalgia Board (but not, curiously, the rest of the forum). For that reason I've not been able to respond to the posts, subsequent to my clue of yesterday, on the 'Name that Flying Machine' topic. Thus would you please do me a favour and, by way of a valedictory comment, post that the mystery aeroplane is the Peyret/SFCA Taupin and the Mickey Jupp song, offered as a clue, is 'Cross Country', the Taupin having been developed, post-war, as the Lignel 44 Cross Country. And if you'll do so, that will conclude my involvement with that topic and, in all probability, the PPRuNe forum.
Regards Fauteuil Volant
I do not know if there have been any or previous exchanges between the mods and Fauteuil.
I do not want to start any discussion on that.
I do hope that this is all some kind of error or mistake and that we may welcome back Fauteuil in the near future.
My next challenge:
