The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Keith has correctly identified the race and year and the fact that the mystery machine was an entrant, but not a qualifier, for that. Thus identifying it should be a downhill run. Here's another image of a model of it, if that helps.

 
It would indeed, Uli!

Whilst Keith did a lot of the leg work, Uli actually identified the aeroplane in question. Thus as Keith doesn't want the next stint, perhaps you will take it, Uli?
 
You know the airplane. Do you know her name?:unitedkingdom:

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Very appropriate, today, to have a photograph of a member of the BEA Elizabethan class, which came into service in 1952. Unfortunately that class didn't remain in service for seventy years.

As to which Ambassador is depicted in the photograph, I'm afraid that my eyes are not good enough to tell. So I'll leave it to someone else to work it out from the following list.

 
Intentionally appropriate, of course.
Now, throw a large enough blanket over it and you'll get it covered... :biggrin-new:

But the 'appropriateness' should have narrowed it down to one, and one only-

the first in class = "RMA Elizabethan"

A small tot for PH, and the burden for the next mystery of course
 
Thank you. The late Queen outlived her namesake by 54 years!

Here's a modern replica of a pioneer floater. I know that the original has been here before, but the replica is new.

 
Have only found a few names from the BEA era, mainly when referring to their demise, otherwise I think you are referring to their 'Class' whilst working for BEA as the 'Elizabethan class' and their names were from Elizabeth 1st noblemen & adventurers.
Keith
 
you got me, Mike - all my floater 'bibles' are at home while I'm stuck here in Funchal waiting for the next Aquila Arways flight to land..........:engel016:
 
It's a hard life, Mike, but someone's got to live it!

Kevin's sufficiently close for me. According to my source, it's a replica of the 1910 Henri Fabre Hydravion. Floater Nº 1!

Over to Texas (whilst Mike endures his sybaritic existence in the Canaries).
 
Cruel, Kevin ! And, for the record, Mike, Madeira isn't in the Canaries (which are Spanish) but sits on its own in the Atlantic. Like the Azores, it is very much Portuguese.

Unfortunately, we seem to have landed right in thr middle of the Wine Festival. As you say, it's tough.....:mixed-smiley-010:
 
I am suitably admonished, Mike, and heading for the corner of the room with my dunce cap on. But it appears that I was correct on the sybaritism front. Epicurus would be proud of you!
 
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