By: Newforest - 14th February 2011 at 20:19
Oh yes, a Messenger! :diablo:
And of course a Messenger has three rudders! 😮
By: Tony at BH - 14th February 2011 at 19:15
Following on from what ‘Ewan Hoozarmy’ and ‘PeeDee’ have said about satellite picture distortion, if you digitally ‘squish’ the photo from left to right you get this image.
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Mystery solved i think Holmes.
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th February 2011 at 15:33
Headcorn Museum’s manned V1 being delivered, post restoration? 😀
By: PeeDee - 13th February 2011 at 17:17
Span is really small compared to fuse length.
Maybe the fuse length is lenghtened by exposure time of the Sat. camera, but the chord of the wings and H-stabs doesn’t look too bad. The drivers club at Headcorn will know, they will all have looked at their own place on GEarth and will have identified every craft visible.
By: low'n'slow - 13th February 2011 at 11:31
My money would go on a T-tail Piper, with white-painted tips on the wings and tail, maybe a PA-32R Lance?
By: Tony at BH - 13th February 2011 at 09:03
Agreed about the Ercoupe. Here’s a close up.
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Tony
By: Ewan Hoozarmy - 13th February 2011 at 08:58
I reckon it’s a PA28 or similar but the image has been distorted as it passed under the satellite camera….
definitly not an Ercoupe
By: Tony at BH - 13th February 2011 at 08:53
Well i’ve Googled ‘Eurocoup’ and ‘Erco Ercoupe’ and the results show the same plane but I don’t think it’s one of those. Anyone else have any ideas?
By: Newforest - 13th February 2011 at 00:53
Erco Ercoupe? Looping?? There is an oxymoron if ever there was one! 😀
By: PeeDee - 13th February 2011 at 00:43
Did you mean Ercoupe?
Its nose is too long for that. And the H-stab of an Ercoupe swept back too.
Could it be a Large model?
By: Deskpilot - 12th February 2011 at 00:51
Not so sure that it’s taking off, rather rolling off the top of a loop. It appears to be fixed u/c and twin stabs. Could be a Eurocoupe?
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