Identify this aircraft?
 

The BBC are running a story about a mysterious aircraft flying over the Wem/Sleap area of Shropshire.

Here's the photo they put up...

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cps...4972_alien.jpg

I'm pretty certain that's a Britten-Norman Islander - any info from the locals?

While not a local..
Are there any Scottish Aviation Pioneers still flying?

Maybe something belonging to one of their members?

Introduction - Sleap Model Flyers

that's aurora coming in to land at the secret US air force base on the moon.

Fats

No not that thing on the right - that's a BAe Taranis UAv from Shawbury - I'm thinking the other might even be a Pilatus Porter?

The thing on the right, on close inspection, appears to be a small moth.

I thought all the Moths were biplanes.

Must be a Moth minor then!

At a guess I would say-:
Verhees Delta (F-PDHV) and Europa (F-PGKL)


G-ANPK (Stansted Air-Britain)

http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/Bi...sf2q4.jpg.htmlhttp://s1170.photobucket.com/user/Bi...3sz4u.jpg.htmlI'm not sure that the delta is a/the Verhees.
Weeds.

Minor, Leopard, Puss and even Tiger Moth (dH71 not 82a) were all monoplanes!

I thought of the Verhees Delta too, but as I remember its trailing edge is less straight, and curves in rather than slightly out as pictured.

(nb for those confused with its F-P registration: the designer is Belgian, and the plane is based in Belgium - but the French experimental register is slightly less hard to access than the Belgian counterpart. Many Belgian experimentals/homebuilts have F-Pxxx registrations.)

Having studies the photo along with a fellow aviation person, the back aircraft could be a Broussard and the lower object a winged flying suit, parachutist.


G-ANPK

That's not the right trailing edge shape for the Taranis. And it's not a VariEze either, as the Sleap airfield spokesperson suggests in the BBC piece. But if it's near Sleap/Wem then the chances of neither Sleap nor Shawbury knowing are very slim. It's inside the Shawbury MATZ so highly likely to have been talking to them.

Thanks 'PK as I said I know what the tin triangle is but was wondering why you would use something as unsophisticated as a straight wing type as chase plane. Maybe all the Shropshire aero club members have been sworn to secrecy?

Somebody tried to photograph a model aircraft. There was a moth on the lens. Photo actually taken near Loch Ness. Photo quality degraded due to passage through digestive system of large amphibian. Photographer missing. Possible alien abduction.

Photographer has been arrested and sentenced to appear before Lord Sugar on The Apprentice - confirmed Alan Abduction.

PDR

Could be another UAV?
 

A bit of a longshot, but it could be another UAV such as the BAE Kingfisher, if they were doing trials into swarming or close formation flying (e.g. for in-flight refuelling feasability trials).

BAE Kingfisher. Specifications. A photo.

http://australianaviation.com.au/wp-...Kingfisher.jpg

Otherwise it could be a derivative of the BAe Stabileye UAV from the 1980s.

http://u0v052dm9wl3gxo0y3lx0u44wz.wp...0732748259.jpg

How do you know that?

It seems most unlikely outside segregated airpace, which a MATZ or ATZ isn't.