The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

This svelte beauty is an Austin-Ball A.F.B.1.

[Sopwith Chameleon]

for Lefty ............ what kind of Cigarettes was Albert Ball on when he scrawled the design on the back of the Packet, I wonder............

Over to you................

[lefty]

Thanks. Just shows, the French don't have a monopoly on ugly kites.

This one ain't too pretty either....

[Ralf Roggeveen]

Definitely German. Thought it might be a Junkers 85, but it doesn't seem they ever built any. It's certainly got a Junkers tail!

[lefty]

The original version will confirm the nationality, Ralf, but it isn't a Junkers model.

[Moses03]

That is the Berlin B9. It was an experiment to test the position of the pilot- in this case, lying flat to reduce g stress.

[Moses03]

I will be gone until late tonight or possibly tomorrow and don't want to hold things up.

Here is the next one-

[grumpos]

Gloster TC.33

Best wishes
Steve P

[Moses03]

A cold one for Grumpos on the one-off Gloster! Good to see you back in these parts.

Have at it Sir.

[grumpos]

A cold one for Grumpos on the one-off Gloster! Good to see you back in these parts.

Have at it Sir.

Thanks for the beer Moz. don't have time to post anything at the mo as I/m bang slap in the middle of reinstalling windaes.

so... Open Floor!

Best wishes
Steve P

[lefty]

Steve, I shall leap in - had a weensy inkling about the Gloster anyway (a Brit should be shot if he didn't !)

Try this

[Moses03]

Lefty has gone back to the fatherland with an Arado Ar 77. (Curiously omitted from Green's Warplanes of the Third Reich).

[Moses03]

No doubt Lefty is in a noisy pub somewhere with a red nose, sloshing his beer mug around like there is no tommorrow. :friday:

Here is an odd one to take us into 2009 (If anyone is around for the next several hours).

Happy New Year!

[grumpos]

Blackburn F7/30

Happy New Year folks!

best wishes
Steve P

[lefty]

Well Steve must have done a quick job on those windaes - hope they survive the Arctic winter we are all going to have !

I did have a very brief visit to the pub but actually went with another 10 pals to a pantomime.

Now any of you colonial cousins who have no idea what I am talking about can be forgiven - suffice to say it is great fun for kids and old fogeys alike.

Nice meal in a Breton restaurant in Perth (Scotland) followed by the panto, then a wee snort in our local, followed by The Bells in our neighbours house - lots of drams and kisses (I try to restrict those to the girls)

A Happy New Year to One and All !

PS Steve was right with the Blackburn