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lefty
December 30th, 2005, 08:18
Here are four Brits - or are they ?????
Hurricane
December 30th, 2005, 09:33
The bottom two are EP.9 (i think i posted one once!:costumes: ) and the beagle basset
lefty
December 30th, 2005, 10:15
:icon29: for the EP9, James, but you are not quite right with the Basset - it's a more obscure Beagle!
Henry
December 30th, 2005, 10:21
Top left DH?
H
lefty
December 30th, 2005, 10:33
Nope.
Henry
December 30th, 2005, 10:48
Bottom right Supercar?
H
Hurricane
December 30th, 2005, 10:55
is the first one armstrong-whitworth?
lefty
December 30th, 2005, 11:26
No, but it looks like an A-W ! (I did hint they might not all actually be British made.)
Moses03
December 30th, 2005, 13:42
Top left is a Fokker F.22. Top right looks like the very obscure Fane F1 40.


Moses
lefty
December 30th, 2005, 15:06
:icon29: for Moses for the Fane. However No 1 isn't an F22. Close, but not correct!
Moses03
December 30th, 2005, 15:22
Of course I picked the wrong one. Must be the Fokker F.36 then. :rolleyes:

Moses
Ferry_vO
December 30th, 2005, 18:55
I think #1 is in fact a F.XXII; I found this on one of my sources :

"In 1939 the remaining F.XXIIs of KLM - the 'Papegaai' (Parrot) and 'Roerdomp' (Bittern) - together with the large F.XXXVI, were sold to airlines in Britain.

The Roerdomp went into service with the British American Air Service and the Papegaai with Scottish Aviation Ltd. Two years later, in October 1941, both F.XXIIs were impressed in the Royal Air Force and operated by the Air Observers Navigation School.

The former Roerdomp, was later transferred to No. 1680 Flight at Abbotsinch, near Glasgow where it was renamed 'Sylvia Scarlet'."
lefty
December 31st, 2005, 03:01
Sorry, Ferry, Moses is right (:icon29: ) .


It was an F36. This one (PH-AJA, ex-KLM 'Arend') was sold to Scottish Aviation and became G-AFZR as a flying classroom for navigators. Burned out at Prestwick in 1940.

There were indeed two F22's in Britain, but the F36 was 10ft longer and greater span.

regards

Lefty

Anyone want one last stab at the Beagle ?
SabreAce
December 31st, 2005, 10:39
Beagle B.206?
lefty
December 31st, 2005, 16:38
SabreAce, welcome to Quiz Corner! Nice to see a fresh face here. I'm going to award you an honorary :icon29: because, well, it's that time of year. (We Scots get a bit mushy at Hogmanay)

The plane is actually a one-off, a Beagle B218X.. Quite a smart-looking number, but never got into production.

Happy New Year to all

regards

Lefty
1905Flyer3
January 4th, 2006, 21:10
WOW! I really love all that extra head room in the Beagle! It's nice to see that they were thinking about some of us taller folks!
Paul