The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Green]

It is indeed BG. Over to you.

 

[Baragouin]

It is indeed BG. Over to you.

Thanks Green....
The following mystery should be a cinch for you
Cheers
BG

Alas I forgot to cancel registration....

 

[Baragouin]

That's the one, G (you get around!) Looks like they added a ventral strake under the tail at some stage. Neat machine - wonder if it is still around.......

Hi Lefty please look into your PM box....
Cheers
BG

 

[Green]

Stearman 81?

 

[Baragouin]

Stearman 81?

Yessir it is indeed the Stearman 81 Sportster. It seems that it as the only one built on floats....
Please carry on
Cheers
BG

 

[Green]

Thanks BG. I think it's time for someone else to have a go - Open House.

 

[Dev One]

I'm off to UK for a couple of weeks, but will hopefully be able to keep an eye open here from time to time.
Keith

 

[wout]

May i join in with this what I believe used to be a floater
Still undediced on a colour scheme.

 

[srgalahad]

The similarities to Lefty's challenge above (Smith prototype) are amazing if one does the appropriate change to the engine/prop(s). Squinting further, it looks like Walter's pic has a similar registration (redacted).

 

[lefty]

Well I think my question's been answered anyway - VH-XWS (for that is she) has been on a Fokker 100 for the last 5 years !

 

[wout]

Indeed the Smith FRSW-1, but now with the engine relocated to atop the fuselage. The air intakes under the wings are covered by rectangular plates.
It still carried the VH-XWS registration, now allocated to a Fokker F-100 as Lefty remarked.
I am interested what WS14N on the tail stands for. Maybe a watercraft/boat registration or Australian ultra-light registration?.
Attached the photo in original form, thanks to airliners.net

I have seen VH-XWS described as FSRW-1 and FRSW-1 with initials standing for for Fien, Smith, Roberts and White, gentlemen involved in the design/construction, but I fail to understand why it is usually reported as the Smith FSRW-1.

Srgalahad to continue ?

 

[lefty]

but I fail to understand why it is usually reported as the Smith FSRW-1. Srgalahad to continue ?

In Jane's, the Company is listed as Allan C. Smith Developments PTY, so I suppose that's why it's called a Smith!

Anyway, Over to Rob for one of his specials ??

 

[lefty]

Rob seems to have gone walkies, so I'll fill in for now with this rather ungainly machine......

 

[pomme homme]

That, sir, is the T.K.1, designed and built by the students of the de Havilland Technical School in 1934.

 

[lefty]

Indeed it is - not a thing of beauty, but the students got the basics right! Over to Gaul.....

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Lefty. Here's something that looks a little out of place. I don't think that it's put in an appearance here before. Or, at least, a google search suggests as much.

 

[lefty]

That one, sir, is the Taylor Wagtail ?

 

[pomme homme]

It is indeed. Apparently it's the last known image of the original Taylor C.103 Wagtail, standing on a secondhand car lot in Digbeth, Birmingham, in 1951, after Fred Taylor had part-exchanged it for a car on deciding to emigrate to Australia. So the ball is back in your court, sir.

 

[lefty]

Yes, a curious tale of the little home-build.

Here's an unusual warrior, bearing the insignia of.....???

 

[Moses03]

Looks like a certain Eastern European warrior...