It is:
No. 2842. Avro 594 Avian Mk.III (G-CANM c/n 128)
The source photo (with notes) appears here: http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Johannesson/2842.htm
One of a block of 6 a/c...
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It is:
No. 2842. Avro 594 Avian Mk.III (G-CANM c/n 128)
The source photo (with notes) appears here: http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Johannesson/2842.htm
One of a block of 6 a/c...
No 'perhaps'. It is indeed the LH-130
:very_drunk:
:redfire:
The heat must be affecting you.
Alas, it is not the LH.42 but you are warm (I'm not - just got back from the store)
It's -7C and there's snow on the ground so I need to find a way to keep from freezing up...
As far as I can tell, this has never appeared here, but has been referenced at least twice..
Well, that's a better alibi than " my dog ate my homework while I was waiting for the bus that hit a giraffe that was walking through the roundabout..."
- I will offer a WAG that it was a Thames....
yes, the Taylor Watkinson Dingbat
Certainly better than being an outright Twit. Have a beer, sir! :icon29:
and a small pint for Andy who arrived 2 minutes late :very_drunk:
First things first: having found your possible source, we move to - Israel, 1948-50
It's almost as bad as French aircraft, and proof Wiki is, at best, a 'second source' (I wasn't using it).
They...
Because it's been so quiet in here, I'll interrupt the serenity and toss out a guess.
Temco TE-1B (T-35A), and going for the bonus, Saudi Arabia, late 1950's
Or it's something else, somewhere...
"So I always wanted to built a Marcel Jurca MJ-5 Scirocco... after 25 years I found the set of plans under 6" of mud in a flooded basement, pulled out my 1965 Black & Decker jigsaw, et VOILA!"
After video review, the ruling is that there was a catch, but it was obscured and may have been intentionally dropped, to be recovered by a team member...
First down at midfield for the Sopwith...
PH, it's a long story. Was actually going to ask you a couple of Q one of these days, so I'll PM you the saga), and thanks for the thought.
Since we've been looking at the undersides, here's...
OOPS! forgot I had to find a horrid critter in a grainy photo..
No, not senility, just too many things sur le plat.
(Like finally winning a two-day battle to find one house in Deux-Sevres...
I squinted...
and squinted even more...
and I think I see a Luscombe T8F ( maybe a T8F-L)
With a meteoric rise to astronomical heights at the top of the charts SC gets the Grumpy (crotchety brother of Grammy) :very_drunk:
The story begins with the General Western P-2-S Meteor...
Thanks Kevin! (there's a faint ghost of a Lockheed logo under the cockpit - thanks for the hint, too.)
So If I bang my head on the desk whilst screaming in frustration could we make it a grunge...
Guitars and planes... hmmm...
So what guitar did Jerry Cantrell use? 'cause Jerry is from Tacoma. So is (sort of...) Robert Cray, who prefers Fender Stratocasters.
However, though they have...
Fender Stratovercaster more likely
I was being cryptic to allow others to jump in. T'was a bit unfair for me to reply directly as I'd literally just finished reading a post elsewhere about the MAK family when Jim posted his mystery....
Quite a complete story here:
https://falkeeinsgreatplanes.blogspot.com/2011/01/makhonine-10-and-101-retractable-winged.html
"Yvan Makhonine, a Russian expatriate conceived the idea of the ...
Ivan certainly had some interesting ideas...
Oh wait! I know that one! Saw it in the catalogue the other day.
Apparently it only takes minutes to assemble with the included little L-shaped Allen wrench!:bump:
Ba-da-boom! :pop4::very_drunk:
So successful, they made only one.
And WOW! we're up to 1 3/4 Sm vis in smoke.
Ah well, 'tis a better day for posting than most this month (With a METAR like this I'm staying inside - METAR CYYC 161500Z 34026G33KT 5/8SM -the vis is reduced in SMOKE thanks to the 30 Kt wind...
The oddly-designated XF9F-9? Prototype of the F11F Tiger.
"Look Ma, I can shoot myself down!"
I'll go with "What is an ADF antenna housing?" for $200, Alex.