The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

.... Comper Streak .....

I don't think so. The Streak and the Kite were significantly different aeroplanes.

[lefty]

Yes, have to go with PH here - the Pobjoy engine is the clincher.

[pomme homme]

..... as is the second cockpit. I know that it is claimed that two Streaks were produced, the second of which 'had provision for a second cockpit' (q.v. https://www.nickcomper.co.uk/the-kite), but I've haven't seen any corroboration for that claim or a photograph of a two seat Streak and I know of only one Streak with a British civil registration mark, namely G-ACNC. The Kite, which was registered G-ACME, emerged from the Comper works a little more than a month after the first flight of the Streak. It had a fuselage slightly longer than the Streak. But for the Streak having a Gipsy Major and the Kite having a Pobjoy Niagara, the two aeroplanes visually were very similar. But they were two different aeroplanes. However, all of this is just for the record and I have no wish to be an impediment to SC posting the next mystery.

All the best

pomme homme

[Sopwith Chameleon]

....... I think PH has it .....

[cthornburg]

I was just going on what I found in the caption. Not an expert in civil except for flying.

Thanks everyone.

Chris

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Chris, lefty and SC.

Here are the mortal remains of something that was quite advanced in its day.



P.s. what was the source of your photograph of the Kite, Chris?

[srgalahad]

'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist.'

[pomme homme]

Well done, you Ancient Mariner. You saved me trotting out my Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac clue! This bird was brought low (well, that's being rather dramatic - it force landed) at Pucklechurch on 6 October 1940 and its mortal remains are depicted outside the Old House at Home public house in Burton, Wiltshire, having been recuperated by the indomitable Jim Packer.

[cthornburg]

pomme homme

When I'm wandering around the web and find something I think might be used here. I just download it. So where I found this I don't know. I try to get a collection of mystery pics that I can use. Most times it's been used before. Just like the pix of the Beech Model 40 I should have saved it but didn't. I try to find something of interest that will spark saving the history of it.

Thanks

Chris

[srgalahad]

Well done, you Ancient Mariner. You saved me trotting out my Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac clue! This bird was brought low (well, that's being rather dramatic - it force landed) at Pucklechurch on 6 October 1940 and its mortal remains are depicted outside the Old House at Home public house in Burton, Wiltshire, having been recuperated by the indomitable Jim Packer.

So, if the truth is to be told, 'tis the remains of DH Albatross:
Fingal
Passenger variant was registered G-AFDL and delivered to Imperial Airways (later BOAC) as Fingal in 1939. Destroyed in a crash landing near Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England on 6 October 1940.

The quote, as others may have discerned, is from the Samuel Taylor Coleridge epic "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (1798), which, in my warped youth I once recited in my English Lit. class - all 650+ lines of it.
As the myth goes, to shoot an Albatross will bring untold hardship and a lasting curse or death. "Frobisher", Albatross G-ADFI was destroyed on the ground during a German air attack on Whitchurch Airport on 20 December 1940. 'Nuff said...

I'm in the midst of reconstructing a wall in the basement originally made by someone with NO (zero, zilch) skills or knowledge. If I do not post a mystery within 12 hours, consider it open house.