I guess that'll do DA, I was really after the two official names but thirty second on Goggle would give em :p so it's yours mate!

It is the Gloster E.1/44 or GA-2 Ace, and obviously not much liked by Bill Waterton !!

diesel addict has declared an Open House :ok:

SinoTC -

I have just found my battered copy of Waterton's "The Quick and the Dead"
(paperback - 2/6d) - Page 10 - Prologue


" The E1/44, looking curiously frail and ugly, glittered in the pale March sunlight: a tubby, trunkless, silver-winged elephant of an aeroplane, the vast air intakes of her jet engine serving as ears. She had no official name, although Ace had been suggested. I called her the Gloster Gormless since she was so heavy for her single Nene engine "

Events seem to have proved him correct.

Back in about 1967 I worked with a chap who, as a rigger, was made redundant from the flight shed at Moreton Valence when Gloster folded up.

He had a similar opinion of Waterton as a miner might have of Margaret Thatcher.........

Personally, I re-read the last chapter every so often in the vain hope things might have improved.

Best Wishes
DA

Here's another...

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/1423/img144u.jpg

Coffee break, I see your light's on Graeme; enjoy the film??

This looks French?

Tail's too pointy for a Dewoitine, looks more like an ANF-Mureaux 11summat ??

BTW, our email server is down, so if I owe you a reply, it won't be 'til Monday :)

Sorry for the delay Trevor. Couldn't find where I got it from! :) I have it as the Mureaux M 117 R.B2

Your control mate.
(Got'em thanks mate. I agree with the British answer...)

Fair swap mate, thanks! I'm back at work now but will try and put something up shortly.

I just did that too with the Florov and checking which one it was and now I remember it's on my laptop at home :O

Edit: It only went down a few hours ago, it was if you'd made a reply to mine that I would normally acknowledge!

Edit2: Just trying desperately to find something that not on Mel's list, have you seen the third line down? :)

Bugger, sorry bout that! I only looked under "M". :(

No prob's mate, we've all done it!! Did you check who got it though?:E

Gotta head back to the workshop for a while, otherwise I'd have a look for your tightly cut orifice on the other thread!! Ooops that sound a bit rude or something a proctologist would say :)!! I will check back periodically!

Here we are then:

http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/.../TC-wtf169.jpg

HAL HJT-16 Mk.2 Kiran...?

Just finished an edit above!! No need to check back now, you're good mate :D

It is the HAL HJT-16 Mk.2 Kiran

Noyade has control

Thanks Trevor.

Next...

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1475/211tui.jpg

Yes, as Austin Powers would say, "very tite". I cropped an 'outer ring'. :)

Sunday morning clue.
 

French.......

I was thinking Italian, but how about SUD-EST SE161 Languedoc?

Sorry mate, not the Languedoc. This one is twin-engined.

I'll bite. Looks like a Caudron C.570 Kangourou.

And severed the carotid! :)

:ok:

Caudron C.570 Kangourou

Your control Karlark.

Thanks Noyade. :)

Here's the next challenge;

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i..._2008/50-5.jpg

I watched Contagion last night Karlark...

Contagion (2011) - IMDb

I noticed Minnesota was one of the first places to be devastated by the virus. Glad you survived mate! :)

Italian Breda 82?

Forget that.

Piaggio P-32?

:ooh: better stay indoors for awhile just in case.

Piaggio P.32 is correct!

Noyade has control.

Thanks Karlark. The silhouette barrel is nearly empty...

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/5224/img124v.jpg

Dornier Do 27

It is Sycamore. :) Your control.

Seems we have a stalled thread. As it's been nearly 24 hours Open House should apply. And with that in mind, let's get things moving again:)

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Good morning Ken,

Not many about over the weekend!! Sycamore's light was on when I awarded him the Challenge thread, so I asked him if he had a new one to offer (and reminded him about this one), but it went out (timed?) without answer a little later. He had been back and requested OH on Challenge when I checked later in the afternoon and again his light was still on, so I guessed he was in the process of preparing something for here, but it seems not, next time maybe, but after nearly twenty four hours, I totally agree with your decision to carry on :ok:!

I think I see evidence of guns in the front and top views, so it's a fighter? Mid twenties/early thirties? Continental Europe?

Just off to work now, going to be a busy day but will try and look in later:)

Morning!

Gordou-Leseurre GL-410....?

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/509/img160c.jpg

Evening Graeme.

That's the one:ok:

Yes, saw that it was very quiet...unfortunately I was too busy at the back end of last week to look in. When I finally managed on Saturday night we were pending the next challenge from sycamore.

Noyade has control.

Thanks Ken.

Don't know a lot about it so don't grill me. :) But I did find a photo of it on the web.

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/8551/img164w.jpg

Looks fast mate:ok:

From 1981? I think mate.
Participated in the "LBF" efficiency rates.
Averaged 234mph over 500 miles on only 20 gallons of fuel.
Designer was well known for sailplanes and died in 2004.

Aerofiles says 298mph max. No pic there though....:(

Evening Graeme.

Did that designer die in a sailpane crash?

Morning David! Used your "Get out of Gaol Card?" :)

Internet says heart failure...he was 80.

PM Graeme shortly.

Surname was an uncommon one, "Smith".

Smith AJ-2?

:ok:

Back to you Ken! :)

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/156/img165e.jpg

Thanks Graeme....it was Smith that gave it a way!!:)

Here's the next one...

http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/74d1ea86.jpg

American?
Beech?

Is it this one, mate?