Some new photos have just been released showing G-ADSR. From its hangar, it would have to cross the public road to get to the airfield, being pulled or pushed by the look of it, or towed.
By: RPSmith - 5th March 2008 at 09:26
What a great collection of photos of a very attractive aeroplane – thanks for drawing our attention to them Newforest.
I think it’s generally accepted that the Ensign was underpowered – the common problem of airframe designer wanting more than the engine designer could provide. In the case of the AW designer (John Lloyd?) he also had one hand tied behind his back with the apparent stipulation (laid down by John Siddeley) that Armstrong Whitworth aircraft had to have Armstrong Siddeley engines in them.
The Whitley was later to have Merlins and the Ensign Mk. II had, I think, Pratt & Whitneys.
Roger Smith.
By: mike currill - 5th March 2008 at 06:55
Quite a sleek machine for the time.
By: pagen01 - 4th March 2008 at 20:52
Excellent pictures of surely one of the most graceful looking airliners ever built. Those pics really do show how tiny the engines were in comparison to the airframe, looks like it would be under powered, but never heard anything to back that up.
By: avion ancien - 4th March 2008 at 20:51
I wish that my father had some photos like that in his album!
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