No David your not! I also think it’s an ugly airplane, not faulting the workmanship of the painters just the airplane………………..
old car speedometer?
I think he missread the label it said Lanchester not Lancaster…………………
Looks like the petrol flap off a Marina!
Romano Archives? The Pikey’s got busy quickly………………………
It’s the glint of gold in the moonlight………………………….
Concorde in it’s as built configuration was doomed from the word go as a revenue earner, as can be seen in all the early documentory’s (not so much the later stuff) she was a test piece, a proof of concept. The real revenue plane was much bigger but was never built due to financial and technolgy constraint’s of the time.
I am afraid to say I would be the exception to the rule and find them ungainly and just a little ugly. I think we see a lot more of them here in the States flying than most of you though………………….
we may be searching for the needle in the proverbial haystack:diablo:
So that make it a real UFO then!!
It would help to know precisely where and when he saw it.
We get the full range of current UK/ US/ European stuff here but nothing more exotic than that.Pete
UPDATE on Location…………..
Location due south of Askham in Cumbria, NGR NY511233; time approx1:45pm Friday 5th March.
Aircraft was flying due S and low.
are we thinking along the lines of the Gloster Pioneer?
Funny I just posted a picture of whittles beast but he said very similar but not it which is why I tried the MIG 9 Didn’t realise how similar those two are till this quest………..
Yeah… nose intake…. F-84 !?!?!?!?
He said straight wing, even taper….. ‘doesn’t mean not swept… MiG-15 ?
I tried Mig 15 and Mig 9! he says the Mig 9 is very similar but not it
Thanks, so far we have already eliminated JP and tuscano he swears it was nose intake straight wing………….
Thats the one!! I thought i remembered it on a pole but that definatly hit the memory button. and I guess from the year I was not such a kid either…………………..Funny I was working for Jack Barclay then so I was probably driving Rolls-Royces past it everyday!
MARK12, when I were a lad I remember a spit/Hurrie on a pole in a courtyard of a firm on the embankment but can’t remember for the life of me where it was any idea’s???
So Goodbye Micky Mouse then?………………..Oh! that was a P51…………..