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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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fabulousfour
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My first post here in this wonderful forum.
This is the Taft Kingfisher aka Whittelsey Amphib as shown in the Madison Square Garden Expostion.
I could have posted earlier, but there must be a sort of quarantine after registration.
This is the Taft Kingfisher aka Whittelsey Amphib as shown in the Madison Square Garden Expostion.
I could have posted earlier, but there must be a sort of quarantine after registration.
fabulousfour
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Thanks for the beer 
As this is my first mystery, the next one should not be too difficult.
An extra imaginery beer for the pilot who made this perfect three-point-landing, but this is no must.
As this is my first mystery, the next one should not be too difficult.
An extra imaginery beer for the pilot who made this perfect three-point-landing, but this is no must.
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pomme homme
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Welcome, fab4. I'm pretty sure that it's an early Vega Gull but I can't identify the crash or the pilot who achieved it. Maybe when he was told to do a three point landing, he didn't realise that he was expected to put it down on its main and its tail wheels, rather than the former and the engine cowling. Perhaps he walked away muttering: 'two out of three ain't bad'!
Addendum: I suspect that it was Beryl Markham who was responsible for that 'landing', for in the course of her flight in VP-KCC ('Messenger') from Oxford to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, she encountered strong headwinds and had to make an emergency landing, short of her destination, and had the bad luck to find soft ground, with the result that the Vega Gull tipped onto its nose. However she still became the first woman to make a solo east-west Atlantic crossing in 21 hours on 4/5 September 1936.
Addendum: I suspect that it was Beryl Markham who was responsible for that 'landing', for in the course of her flight in VP-KCC ('Messenger') from Oxford to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, she encountered strong headwinds and had to make an emergency landing, short of her destination, and had the bad luck to find soft ground, with the result that the Vega Gull tipped onto its nose. However she still became the first woman to make a solo east-west Atlantic crossing in 21 hours on 4/5 September 1936.
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fabulousfour
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Vega Gull is perfect! 
And lefty has got it with Beryl Markham
This is the plane Beryl Markham tried to fly nonstop from England to New York in 1936, but due to technical problems she had to make a precautionary landing in Nova Scotia.
Nevertheless, she was the the first woman to fly the atlantic from East to West solo.
You can read the story here.
The photo is from my personal collection.
Over to pomme homme.
And lefty has got it with Beryl Markham
This is the plane Beryl Markham tried to fly nonstop from England to New York in 1936, but due to technical problems she had to make a precautionary landing in Nova Scotia.
Nevertheless, she was the the first woman to fly the atlantic from East to West solo.
You can read the story here.
The photo is from my personal collection.
Over to pomme homme.
pomme homme
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Sorry. Whilst I was typing my addendum (regrettably I don't type quickly) the two subsequent posts were made.
Looking through my book by David Gearing, the only Vega that seems to fit the description is VH-UVH, c/n D57, which nosed over at Bowral Gull, Penrose, nr Bundanoon in NSW, flown by Melrose.
Keith
EDIT - too late & wrong then!
If it was Beryl Markham the regn was VP-KCC c/n K34. Shipped back to Kenya & wfu in Dar-es-Salaam.
Keith
EDIT - too late & wrong then!
If it was Beryl Markham the regn was VP-KCC c/n K34. Shipped back to Kenya & wfu in Dar-es-Salaam.
pomme homme
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Thank you, fab4. Here's something which, perhaps, is a little less well known than the Vega Gull but, nonetheless, is not displeasing to the eye. A very practical tandem trainer that suggests, with reason, the influence of a much larger and better known manufacturer of aeroplanes.
pomme homme
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You have no need to hesitate, Walter, for you've cast your vote for the right candidate! However I was hoping that a photograph of the Aéro-Club de Cheminots Aérofer (1954) in its original two seat format would throw many off the scent - because all of the online photographs that I've seen show it as a single seater (presumably with the original forward cockpit faired over). But I was a fool to think that this would waylay you. You have the chair, sir.
