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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I think that's about as much as we're going to get, Mike. What would really be interesting is a clip of the wretched thing in flight......:very_drunk:
 
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.

 
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."
 
[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.

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Dang! That's what happens when my internet is chilled by an Alberta winter... or I take too long to type the post.
 
I think dear old Freddie Laker was involved with this one - the Aviation Traders Accountant. Quite why anyone would want to name an aircraft after a bean-counter is a mystery...
 
Dev One said:
Make it a slug of Highland Park.
Keith
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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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I hope you like to identify this wee thing.

(@lefty: yes, the layout of the upload manager window has changed)
 

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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.
 
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