Ah, Hawker Tempest I... ?

Typhoon II/Tempest I HM599,Sabre IV,extended radiator ducting on wing l/edge,and revised front cowling.

OH if correct....

Beaten by Treadds..

treadigraph, you have control!

It was indeed HM599, the sole example of the very clean prototype Tempest I.

The latter days of the Tempest V amused me. Being posted to fly the RAF's last and most powerful single piston engined fighter at RAF Sylt, a German holiday resort much frequented by naturists, was considered to be a 'bad boys posting'!!

I started off thinking Griffon Fury!

Try this one which popped up on Google...

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....89c86ad21e.jpg

Good articles in `Aeroplane` about what ` might have been`.....

Option Air Reno Acapella, a zombie-child mutation made from bits of Bede BD5s, of all things.
If I was going to design an aeroplane I think I'd have started somewhere else!
Still, it looks pretty and was evidently fast.

Out on a pub crawl in London, so before I get dragged onto the next establishment and potential oblivion, I'll declare Meleagertoo correct!

Here's an easy one


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d93fe4e0db.png

At a guess...French...?

Clever cropping of the Bellanca tri-motor?

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ed9e0f16df.jpg

Full image - spot the trouser legs!!

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e4c1d23c16.jpg

Bellanca 28-92 indeed!

A bit weird, having two completely different types of engines (although of generally similar configuration, inverted, in-line six cylinder, air cooled); must have been some reason for the designer to go down that route! Actually, I suspect the centre engine (Ranger), by its unusual, triangular-shaped air intake was an inverted V-12 (V-770), as used in a few aircraft, such as a single engine lightweight fighter (P-77?) and an infamous Curtiss 2-seater seaplane for US Navy, built in some hundreds.

Once again Noyade pulls the rabbit out of the hat.

I have this vision of him sitting surrounded by a million volumes of aircraft pictures and he looks at our pathetic offerings, thinks, spins around and pulls the right picture out at once............... ;)

It sometimes feels a bit like that! So many of these challenges are craft I've never even heard of before (as are almost all that I now choose) even after a professional aviation career as a 'bit of' an aviation nut.
Still, to we mere journeyman aviators the virtuoso is rightfully an object of some awe as he sits at his unrestricted universal aviation rolodex and just flicks up the right image...
Roger Bacon was right. Few of us are cut out to be T.A.P.s

Allright Mephisto, do your worst!

Thanks Mel!

As time marches on I do find I spend more and more time on the PC looking for these machines rather than looking through paper references. The computing power of my mobile phone alone would be greater than anything I have on bookshelves. I found the Bellanca on my phone in bed with a dog on my lap. In fact, for most of two years now I haven't been able to reach many bookshelves due to Achilles tendon reconstruction to both feet. :ouch:


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....edac94bcaf.jpg

But I'm more ambulant now and back at work, so I did reach for a book to scan this one.......:ok:


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e3b7d3cdb0.jpg

Correct - a true TAP

lets guess - European?

Not European.
I was trying a meleagertoo crop - of another tri-motor.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b06fd9b549.jpg

I will probably regret asking - but what sort of person is a T.A.P?

Total Aviation Person..:D