Lot of flies about,or are they Midges?
 

Neither Midges, nor Gnats!

Clue #3
 

This research aircraft made a significant contribution to modern systems technology development.

Bell X-5 maybe?

Hunting H.126?

Looks like the Boulton Paul P111?

Fairey Delta 2?

OK, so what do we know?

It has one engine.

Mention of the Wyvern made it "get interesting"

The CTP - according to his Canadian friends (maybe he wasn't Canadian though), drank panther's piss and smoked something foul. Not much Rye or Sweet Caporal available on the Eastern side of the Atlantic back then, I'm thinking?

Still none the wiser for a' that.

I will take a stab and say that it might be the Blackburn B-54

Although I am not sure how this ties up with the CTP. Sqn Ldr W A Waterton Chief Test Pilot for Glosters for a period and was a Canadian. I believe and went back to Canada to Fly the CF-100. He was also involved in test flying the Gloster E.1/44 so perhaps this aircraft is the E.1/44.
Mel

Looks like the Boulton Paul P111?
 

Planegill has it, the Boulton Paul P111!

I must admit the Canadian connection was somewhat tenuous in this context, but the inimitable Ben Gunn, MBE, CTP of Boulton Paul from 1949 to 1966 had good friends in Canada dating back to the BoB. When Ben later became Director of Shoreham Airport and spearheaded its revival, many DHC Twin Otters and Buffalos on delivery flights to the middle/far east routed through Shoreham as a transit stop.

I have it on impeccable authority that the UK's supply of Canadian whiskey and Sweet Cap fags may have been occasionally replenished.

Ben, of course, was better known for the contribution he made to the development of powered flight controls at BP. This led to him involuntarily leaving the later P120 as it disintegrated around him over Salisbury plain, following an aileron flutter event. To hear him retell it kept us young guys enthralled.

Over to you, Planegill.

Open House?
 

As Planegill seems to have gone walkabout, may I suggest: "Open House".

New Challenge
 

Sorry chaps. I didn't get an email to say my guess was correct. Then when I did notice I could not load a new photo for some reason. (It uploaded to photobucket, but just would not display.) I had to find another one.


http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...gill/TestO.jpg

Spartan Cruiser II

Yes indeed, trhe Spartan Cruiser. That didn't last long! You have control One11.

I had a nice, I thought, obscure one to post but then checked the posting history and found it had been up before ..........so, open house.

Here's one...

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/710/aer1282351.jpg

A big clue for a big plane...

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The 'Barling Bomber'; XNBL 1, possibly.

If so, open house.

It is the Barling Bomber. So open house.

Nice easy one, so Make and Model please.

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...us/IMGcrop.jpg

Edgeley Optica perhaps? Perhaps not - I see it has already been on this forum.

Notanoptica.

hb 23 scanliner?

Not that either


I thought this was a cinch!

Clue time;

This one is neither fish nor fowl, but nearly both.

Looks like a Rotary Wing to me.
Mel

Is it the Air and Space -18A Autogiro?

Not a gyro, tho with a handle like your's I'd have thought you'd be able to get closer.

I presume the clue is not so obvious to make it a Bristol 171..............

Well, I admit ti being amazed this has lasted so long, with all the expertise here.

The Bristol connetion is a bit too obvious though! No!

Clue time.

It has a number of cousins.

One is a fish. Another a fowl, and a third might, in some parts of NW Europe be called a stumpy.

Or is that now too obvious?

Well the Enstrom F-28F was the Falcon ( fowl), the 280FX was the Shark (fish). So could it be the F28-F-P Sentinel or was there another named variant ?

Aha! On the right lines, but not there yet.

It also has an equine cousin, but the one you're searching for is a not an exotic menber of this family. (Well, exotic is relative - no pun intended!)

I'll have to open the picture out a bit if that doesn't help.

In the meantime, this is the dobbin.

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...rus/equine.jpg

Hughes 500D ? I think the photo is reversed.

Aah, yes! Mr Evans has finally come out of hiding and pointed out my unintentional error in reversing the slide.

A Hughes 500D it is, as I suspect he knew all along.

You have control, Sir!

Thanks Ab! I enjoy your cryptic clues. Here is the next challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WCP090831.jpg

Canadair Tutor

Sorry, not the Canadair CL-41 Tutor.

Was it a `strange flying machine`,from over your side ?

Rather conventional aircraft. Entered serial production. Not in my realm.

Hal Kiran then ?

Yes, sycamore. It is the Hindustan HJT-16 Kiran. You have control.