I have this picture taken in Malasia, wonder if anyone could ID it from the code letter? serial number is not clear enough to read

RH806 was coded J at one time, dosen’t nescesarily mean it is this aircraft though.

Edit, so was WB236! I think you would need to know Squadron and date to positively ID this Brigand

The owner and pilot, Phil Connolly will have a 3 ship Vietnam Classic Flight here in the UK to fly at Airshows! .

Please,please, let that consist of an F-105, Skyraider, and Huey Cobra!!
Joking aside, can’t wait to see the Cobra.

Now that is unusual, the guy knows what pretty much everything is, hence the labels, but god knows where he got that from.

That’s what I was wondering!

But this flying wing was actually designed by the Nazis 30 years before the Americans successfully developed radar-invisible technology.

Hate to burst the bubble, but the XB-35 and 49 where found to be near invisible to radar aswel, accidentally discovered during bombing trials in the late 1940s. The previous Northrop types may have had low radar signatures aswel, but unlikely to have been trialled for ‘stealth’ reasons as such.
Is there any evidence to support the fact that stealth technology was in the minds of the Horton Brothers and Luftwaffe, or is it a case of neatly fitting facts after the event?

It seems like only yesterday you could find ’em lying around the ‘home counties’. Mark

Bloody hell!

Nigelrob, I agree with you, as a kid it was a favourite type and one that appeared at the top of my ‘like to own and fly’ wish list!

First one looks like an Armstrong Siddeley Atlas I.
No 3, Westland Wallace without spats.
Definately F Type aircraft sheds in background to both pics.

The Atlas in photograph 1 is interesting in that not many were still in service in 1936.
There were a few with the Electrical & Wireless School at Cranwell so it could have been visiting if it is Manston in 1936
Amongst their aircraft were K1482 & K1483 which were with the Unit in 1936

That would fit well with the hangar type in the background, it is an F Type which was primarily an admiralty type but some where re-erected on RAF airfields, Cranwel did (does?) have them. Not sure that Manston did.
The same hangar design appears in the Wallace pic.

Happy new year to you as well, be aware that the early editions have sold for around £200

Blimey, I have the 1st and 2nd eds here (and probably the 9th somewhere)

These were fantastic little books and I was always fascinated by the photos and descriptions of the aircraft, but particularly interested in the silloutes and how they might have been created. I often wondered why they where black with white detail, until it was explained to me that it was a far better way of learning aircraft shapes – simple and effective eh.
They where also great books for tracing development of certain aircraft, and seeing how much (or little) we knew about Eastern Block types.

Anyone got gen of who was behind these books and any history?

Edit; looks from above there is no 9th!