Westland P.12 Lysander K6127

I can find no info about one being built

See reply #2 at http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=6980.0.

Undoubtedly a model in my opinion, for all the reasons given.

Looks to me like it is a model. As previously said the way overscale grass is the real giveaway.

Yes, I was referring to the photo, looks like a replica, but I can find no info about one being built?
Regards Duggy

The P12 only flew with a mock-up turret, so that part of the model is probably not too far off.

That’s a model – a quick check of Youtube shows no film of that particular one. The camo is wrong for the P.12, the real one is Dark Earth/Dark Green/Yellow as would befit a prototype. The prop is far to small for the real deal, the empty turret is a giveaway. Looks like someone built a flying scale model but didn’t bother to film it and put it up on Youtube (although this video of another flying model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jtAJwcajxM shows what it would be like ) – but there could be film elsewhere, who knows.

There certainly was a real Lysander built and flown in that configuration, but that’s a more modern scale model. I know nothing about it, but for me what gives it away are the following points:
1) The grass is out of proportion to the airframe.
2) There’s nothing in the turret.
3) The colour scheme is distinctly dodgy – curious grey/green mix sprayed with no mask or even a coherent pattern, disruptive all over, wrong proportions for the roundels, and isn’t the serial done with Lettraset?
4) Isn’t the prop too small?

I think the OP meant is the photo genuine, rather than did the P12 Delanne exist. The image looks like a model to me, as well.

Google ‘Lysander Delanne’………

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lysander+delanne&qpvt=lysander+delanne&qpvt=lysander+delanne&FORM=IGRE

Ken

It was purely an experiment but actually flew in that configuration. I hate to think what the handling would have been like with a man and 4 brownings back there.