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pigboat 17th Dec 2005 22:23

I'll pass to another player MR. I shall be traveling for the next couple of days.
Forget, are you up?

PPRuNe Radar 17th Dec 2005 22:34

Some really interesting types in the last few. Keep it up guys :ok:

Here's something, which might not be quite as hard, until the experts return ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...Flying/dec.jpg

682al 17th Dec 2005 23:26

It's a Handley Page Hampden.

JDK 18th Dec 2005 02:12

Well, while we are awaiting an expert (hope you don't mind 682al?) here's a tricky one...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/JDK2/037_34.jpg

MReyn24050 18th Dec 2005 14:32

How about the Cessna Bobcat or Crane as I believe it was called in the RCAF?

JDK 19th Dec 2005 00:52

Not a type from the Americas.

People will kick themselves...

MReyn24050 19th Dec 2005 04:59

Airspeed Consul perhaps but then, judging by the yoke, I think it is more likely to be the Avro Anson

JDK 19th Dec 2005 07:13

Closer with the Airspeed Consul than the Avro Anson, but still both wrong, I'm afraid.

There's fliers in the UK (this one) NZ and the USA I believe, but it always was rare.

MReyn24050 19th Dec 2005 19:28

I take it is a British twin. I thought perhaps it is a Sea Prince, might be rare today but was not rare in it's time.

pigboat 19th Dec 2005 20:22

Airspeed Oxford??

cringe 19th Dec 2005 20:23

I was thinking Percival Pembroke or De Havilland Sea Devon, but none of those seem to fit...

Tiger_mate 19th Dec 2005 21:50

British Aviation at its finest:

DH Heron

JDK 19th Dec 2005 22:57

Coo, I din't think it was going to be this hard!

Nope, no, no, no.

MReyn's right that it's a British twin, but it was hardly a load carrier, and there weren't a lot built as it was expensive - but prestigious, so it was always rare.

Closest guess was the Airspeed Oxford, for technology and another reason, but still a ways off. And sadly there's been no flying Oxboxes for 40 years now.

The photo was taken on a grass strip in the UK, where, among other types, amazingly, Short Stirlings were landed and stored.

Any more?

Saab Dastard 19th Dec 2005 23:09

Percival Q.6 Petrel?

Or a Miles Aerovan?

682al 19th Dec 2005 23:15

de Havilland Dragonfly?

JDK 20th Dec 2005 00:34

Saab D, you are clearly more positive about the numbers of flying historic British aircraft than reality allows... No.

682al's dead right. Well done.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ockpit_JDK.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...Woburn_JDK.jpg

682al 20th Dec 2005 09:39

Thanks JDK.

Dragonfly was the first thing that came into my head when I saw the photo (based on the distinctive yoke, an example of which is on a shelf a few feet away from me!) but I then convinced myself that your photo showed the right hand half of a dual control cockpit.

It took your clues to convince me that my first guess was right after all.

Here's another from me, bet it won't last long.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Untitled-2.jpg

Saab Dastard 20th Dec 2005 16:35

The stick looks exactly right for a Spitfire, but the rest of the cockpit doesn't - unless it's a very early model or the prototype?

682al 20th Dec 2005 16:39

Sorry Saab Dastard, it's not an early Spitfire.

Saab Dastard 20th Dec 2005 16:48

OK then, it's an ARTIST'S IMPRESSION of a Spitfire :p


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