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Asturias56 6th Nov 2023 08:39

Feel a bit of a fraud - those clues where a direct highway to the answer!

However.................

try this

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7873ee135e.jpg

Asturias56 7th Nov 2023 07:30

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b6b416285f.jpg
I think only a couple were built

sycamore 7th Nov 2023 15:26

British....?....Bristol ???

chevvron 7th Nov 2023 15:36

I was thinking Gloster.

Asturias56 8th Nov 2023 09:34

British indeed - but neither Bristol or Gloucester

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....91cd2017d2.jpg

sycamore 8th Nov 2023 12:00

GLOUCESTER ..is a town...

thnarg 8th Nov 2023 12:45

Thank you Captain Pedantic. From the wiksters…

“The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1917 to 1963.

Founded as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company Limited during the First World War, with the aircraft construction activities of H H Martyn & Co Ltd of Cheltenham, England it produced fighters during the war. It was renamed later as foreigners found ‘Gloucestershire' difficult to pronounce. It later became part of the Hawker Siddeley group and the Gloster name disappeared in 1963.”

Anyway I think it looks a bit Avro?

Mechta 8th Nov 2023 14:32

De Havilland DH.56 Hyena ?

Asturias56 8th Nov 2023 15:38

well done that man - the Hyena it is - 2 built but not a success
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bb800c5546.jpg




Mechta 8th Nov 2023 20:26

Thanks Asturias56, I wasn't sure whether it was the DH 42B or the DH56; so, with your username in mind, I took a punt. :)

Here's the next one:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a515039a23.jpg

Asturias56 9th Nov 2023 07:53

european?

Mechta 9th Nov 2023 11:32


Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 11535962)
european?

Not European.

Asturias56 9th Nov 2023 14:09

American?

Mechta 9th Nov 2023 14:36


Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 11536133)
American?

Not American. Here's another clue:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....11fdaf31f8.jpg

Asturias56 10th Nov 2023 07:41

pre 1919?

Mechta 11th Nov 2023 09:06


Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 11536531)
pre 1919?

The engine is, but the airframe isn't.

Mechta 15th Nov 2023 10:27

Conscious that I appear to have derailed the thread, here is the final clue.
Remains of the aircraft are in a collection which shares its name with a very prominent location in pre-war British aviation.
This is it as exhibited today:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cec08c9fa3.jpg


chevvron 15th Nov 2023 11:15

Middle Wallop or F.A.S.T.?

Mechta 15th Nov 2023 11:36


Originally Posted by chevvron (Post 11539598)
Middle Wallop or F.A.S.T.?

Not in the UK.

Noyade 23rd Nov 2023 04:17


Originally Posted by Mechta (Post 11539568)
here is the final clue.

G'day Mechta. Maybe you can just name it then and declare open house? It would appear that none of us know what or where it is. :ouch:


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