Gull Six.

I don’t know the facts, but without the motor installed, it means they’d have to have rigged something up to bolt the airscrew to anyway.
I was very sorry to see this rare and very original a/c leave the UK, but it’s in one of the most appropriate places that it can be for Kiwi’s to celebrate a national figure. My heart wants to see it fly, but my brain tells me it’s safer there…!
It’s a funny thing, but there seems to be, relatively-speaking, more old pre-war British civil a/c down-under, and there’s ‘nowt wrong wi’ that :). They certainly have a better climate for aviation.
That photo does raise one interesting query though. I wonder if that Gull had a starter fitted pre-war….? They were not brilliant, and were usually omitted to save weight when racing etc. I suspect it was fitted during the war when it was impressed, or post-war when the a/c returned to the Civil Register.
Does anyone have any nice detailed photos of her pre-war..?