Does anyone have a clue as to what the aircraft is in this photo of a Belfast load?
The photo is a few years old. 😉
Cheers
Scotty
By: DaveF68 - 1st April 2014 at 10:29
This photograph is a bit of a puzzle.
Clearly a version of 1940 ‘photo-shopping’ has gone on. But what is it all about?
The inscription says “Thursday Oct 31st 1940 H.Petty ?”
Petty was a Littlehampton photographer and the building is said to be a Littlehampton or Rustington pub. A swastika seems to have been inked onto the fin.
Would love to know the story behind the image!
Other than it’s a re-touched Blackburn Shark, nothing to contribute!
By: cas - 27th August 2003 at 21:16
good try
the pictures are on a film set for a film diected by H. Danziger in june of 1955. It was called “Satellite in the Sky” and the pilot is actor Kieron Moore.
Shame the aircraft crashed 3 months later but at least it sired a great aircraft in the gnat
A neighbour passed the pictures to me to try and identify which did try the old grey matter a bit.
By: Mark12 - 27th August 2003 at 10:10
Fresh paint but no markings. Hmmm. It only flew for a year before crashing in 1955. When it was flying it carried the class B registration G-39-1. The project pilot was Teddy Tennant, this might be him, but he has the look of an actor on a film set. The location could be Boscombe Down. I am guessing this is pre the 11 August 1954 first flight.
Blind guess – Folland marketing team preparing for their sales launch to Finland, India etc.
Excellent pics and thanks for posting them. We need to see more like this from this period.
Mark
By: cas - 27th August 2003 at 01:45
it is the folland midge but not the first flight
By: cas - 26th August 2003 at 14:57
picture 3
By: cas - 26th August 2003 at 14:56
couple more pictures to add
By: Mark12 - 26th August 2003 at 14:16
Is it the the Folland Midge? First flight ?
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