A really nice piston engined a/c has gone by road into Wickenby tonight – drove past it North of Lincoln about 22.00. Big radial, 3 blades and folding wings – think Reg was G-BDTY looked like a lovely piece of kit. Ideas? The ladies didnt understand me gawping out of the back window, like a 10 year old, of course…
By: SADSACK - 21st November 2012 at 22:20
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that’s the one! I’m no engineer, but through a windscreen at night it looked like a radial engine!
By: Newforest - 19th November 2012 at 13:56
They used to have radials! 😉
By: dh82jon - 19th November 2012 at 13:23
G-BTTY, not the big radial you were thinking of:D but hey ho things look bigger on trailers I guess
By: SADSACK - 19th November 2012 at 12:50
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whatever that thing is in the picture, that was it, but with a 3 bladed prop we were behind it for 7 miles! The wings were certainly folded, not stacked by the sides
Come on, somebody must have a contact at Wickenby?
By: woodbridge10 - 17th November 2012 at 16:34
sounds more like a Grumman TBF Avenger ??
By: pagen01 - 17th November 2012 at 14:34
From your description it could only be a Vought F4U Corsair!:confused:
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th November 2012 at 14:22
the folding wings & 3-blade prop might be a ‘modified’ argus!
By: SADSACK - 17th November 2012 at 11:38
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By: viscount - 16th November 2012 at 23:57
G-BDTY = a Scottish Aviation Bulldog, so clearly a mis-read in the dark.
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November 16, 2012 at 11:52 pm