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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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pomme homme
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Thank you, Mike. I've finally found the picture that I had in mind. It shows this aeroplane in its later form with rather more by way of fins and a rudder. As you'll see, it carries the experimental registration F-ESEL. But to complicate matters further, that registration is recorded as having been allocated to a SPCA Météore. I can't even surmise that the Météore was one of Arnoux' donor airframes - because it postdated the crash and destruction of his bitsa by several years. But enough of that. I'll look for something else that, hopefully, will be less arcane.
pomme homme
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Here's another 'bitsa'. I apologise for the poor quality of the picture. Apparently this creature was very camera shy.
giruXX
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The Bircham Beetle, perhaps?
"The fuselage was allegedly built using the rear portion of a Bristol F.2B mated to a new forward section extending forward from cockpit to firewall. It is also said that the wing comprised the lower mainplane of a German Fokker D.VII sesquiplane."
"The fuselage was allegedly built using the rear portion of a Bristol F.2B mated to a new forward section extending forward from cockpit to firewall. It is also said that the wing comprised the lower mainplane of a German Fokker D.VII sesquiplane."
pomme homme
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No perhaps about it. It is!
Over to you, sir.
Over to you, sir.
srgalahad
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[SIZE=-1]AW.55 (first named Achilles and Avon before finally becoming Apollo)
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looks like the first prototype G-AIYN struggling into the air.
Another of the gifts dropped on the British aerospace industry by the Brabazon Committee. Note in the picture below the #3 prop is feathered - probably to prove it could (barely & likely empty) stay aloft on three engines.
Dang! That's what happens when my internet is chilled by an Alberta winter... or I take too long to type the post.
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looks like the first prototype G-AIYN struggling into the air.
Another of the gifts dropped on the British aerospace industry by the Brabazon Committee. Note in the picture below the #3 prop is feathered - probably to prove it could (barely & likely empty) stay aloft on three engines.
Dang! That's what happens when my internet is chilled by an Alberta winter... or I take too long to type the post.
lefty
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Now you're talking ! Had a tasting of Orkney whiskies last week in our local - some old Highland Parks and Scapas - my favourite the 21-year-old H.P. Sadly at over £100 a bottle it's probably beyond Santa's means !
Here's one for our faithful trimotor aficionados - (I'm getting a strange attachments pop-up window with no thumbnails -is it just me ?)
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srgalahad
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both are correct
Keith came first
The net result would be the same. Not only did we suss out the Apollo, but I had prepped the Accountant as my response... Keith, have we been spending too much time together?
pomme homme
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... if so, I'd be grateful to know the location of the photograph. I have a number of photographs, in the background of which are similar buildings, which I've not been able to place. It would be useful to add this missing detail to those.