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Name That Aircraft - With Answers
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 13:12
by VC10
17 a/c types are represented here.
****It took place 5 days before I was born****
Paul
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 13:20
by Garry Russell
A few on a quick pass
Camel
Dragonfly
Seagull
Swordfish
Tiger Moth
Tutor
Wellington
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 13:41
by Airspeed
I'll go for
Chipmunk
Duck
Dove
Centurion (?in 1956?)
Viscount
Hawk Moth (under Viscount)
Unsure whether the lumberjack hats may make a
Beaver Twin
..and is the tiny heart trying to say Hawker
Hart?
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 16:07
by JohnWillimas
Isn't that the hardly ever seen Hawker Hedgehog at the back? Designed for the same Air Ministry requirement as the Bouton Paul Defiant it consisted of a Hurricane with a fixed, rear-facing, array of four Browning 303 machine guns operated by the pilot and sighted in the rear view mirror. So secret no one ever heard about it until now....
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 16:31
by VC10
Garry Russell wrote:A few on a quick pass
Camel
Dragonfly
Seagull
Swordfish
Tiger Moth
Tutor
Wellington
Strictly speaking 5/7, but I'll give you 5 and a half
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 16:35
by VC10
Airspeed wrote:I'll go for
Chipmunk
Duck
Dove
Centurion (?in 1956?)
Viscount
Hawk Moth (under Viscount)
Unsure whether the lumberjack hats may make a
Beaver Twin
..and is the tiny heart trying to say Hawker
Hart?
2.5/7
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 16:44
by GHD
Gladiator and Messenger?
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 17:07
by TSR2
Are the two tartan chaps the Twin Pioneer?
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 17:21
by Tako_Kichi
My wife found an online account of the garden party and it listed some (but not all) of the missing aircraft that were in attendance.
The seagull-like bird in the middle is a 'Fairy Fulmar', the 'Dragonfly' is spitting fire so we have the 'Spitfire', the guy in armour is a 'Gladiator' and the bird next to him is a 'Dove'.
Most of the other listed aircraft have been covered above. Things I cannot identify yet include the guy next to the gladiator (a 'Porter' perhaps?), the small animal under the gladiator's arm and the significance of the house in the middle (Wisley Manor maybe?)
Re: Name That Aircraft
Posted: 09 Oct 2012, 17:37
by VC10
Tako_Kichi wrote:My wife found an online account of the garden party and it listed some (but not all) of the missing aircraft that were in attendance.
The seagull-like bird in the middle is a 'Fairy Fulmar', the 'Dragonfly' is spitting fire so we have the 'Spitfire', the guy in armour is a 'Gladiator' and the bird next to him is a 'Dove'.
Most of the other listed aircraft have been covered above. Things I cannot identify yet include the guy next to the gladiator (a 'Porter' perhaps?), the small animal under the gladiator's arm and the significance of the house in the middle (Wisley Manor maybe?)
Going on the interweb is cheating!
With reference to the 'official' answers in the back of the programme the interweb is not entirely correct
It would be nice to have the link from your wife
TSR2 wrote:Are the two tartan chaps the Twin Pioneer?
Correct!
GHD wrote:Gladiator and Messenger?
Correct
Paul