The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

sandar · January 18th, 2009, 07:19

Most people get the maufacturer's name wrong.

***lefty*** · January 18th, 2009, 08:16

Originally Posted by sandar

Most people get the maufacturer's name wrong.

How?

sandar · January 18th, 2009, 08:56

What company do you think made it?

***srgalahad*** · January 18th, 2009, 09:38

Originally Posted by sandar

I believe it to be 1928 Stearman C2B registration NC5415, formerly owned by Ben Eielson who bought it from Noel Wien.

http://www.alaskaairmuseum.org/explo...8_Stearman.htm

Lefty ought to get the credit for this though

for sandar ( and the extra shot for the history):friday:
And a share for Lefty too...

Sorry I took so long to confirm but 'someone" who gave me this cold had me doing other tasks...

Rob

***srgalahad*** · January 18th, 2009, 09:40

The wrong name?? you mean it's not a Succotash Aviation Pioneer?

sandar · January 18th, 2009, 10:16

Originally Posted by srgalahad

The wrong name?? you mean it's not a Succotash Aviation Pioneer?

No and yes. It is a Pioneer C.1, but not Scottish Aviation, as I said, most people get this bit wrong. Scottish Aviation designed and built the Twin Pioneer (Twinpin), but Prestwick were the designers of this one.

The evolution of the British aircraft industry is tortuous at best, with on company taking over another and then merging with someone else, then selling off part of one company to another.

Methinks I might have opened a can of worms.

***lefty*** · January 18th, 2009, 11:27

(Edit) Just seen Sandar's post, and with immense respect, he is talking codswallop.

The original was the Scottish Aviation A4/45 - developed by SCOTTISH AVIATION of Prestwickfor the RAF. The civil version was named by them the Prestwick Pioneer.

***srgalahad*** · January 19th, 2009, 02:35

In the interim, whilst the law-yers finger out who's whom and who did watt to ohm I'll just grab the beer and run off to the photolab and produce this distraction floating so nicely on a body of water...:typing:

Rob

***lefty*** · January 19th, 2009, 03:23

Thanks Rob, I needed a good floater! This is the Douglas XP3D-2, an advanced machine for its day, but sadly a no-goer with the dear old Navy.

Sandar, come back ! Sorry if I was a bit rude there !

***lefty*** · January 19th, 2009, 10:13

Think we need a firm moderatorial hand here. Everyone is just posting willy-nilly.

***Moses03*** · January 19th, 2009, 10:26

Okay, how about this-

As I see it, Lefty guessed Sandar's STOL job. Since Sandar is away for a spell it would seem, I would have Lefty go ahead with a new one.

Will move the French number to it's own thread.

-Moses in moderation.

***lefty*** · January 19th, 2009, 11:10

This has been in before, but caught some out then, so no apologies for another view. If you get it 100%, please proceed - I am caught up in a committee meeting tonight (yawn).

**Ralf Roggeveen** · January 19th, 2009, 11:39

(He's retired, so it must be the Curling Club Committee. No doubt the meeting reconvenes in a pub for Any Other Business...)

Not a Hawk then?

***lefty*** · January 19th, 2009, 13:26

Curling Club Committee indeed. But this member is one of those upstanding types who keeps to his New Year Resolution. Not a drop of alcohol has crossed my lips in 2 weeks, and well into the third. So there !

(Weight loss so far - 6.5kg)

**Ralf Roggeveen** · January 19th, 2009, 22:42

Congratulations - new clothes all round, Mike! :hockeypuck: This hockey puck will have to do for a curling, um, puck? I always think that this little chap looks like the wicket keeper from that crap Chinese Cricket team: :karate:

Anyway.

Still think that aeroplane looks very like a Hawk 128, but seem to remember some sort of Indian, South American or Yugoslav derivative having us a bit confused a few months ago..?