…But I just wonder WHY the DMEs were installed inside the air intakes ….. wouldn’t have been easier to fit them on or under the fuselage?….is there a technical reason for this?

[ATTACH=CONFIG]233530[/ATTACH]I am 100% sure it is RAF origin since this picture was taken at Duxford Museum, and FGA.9 XG154 in Hendon is similar (see pic).
But I confirm that the T-Bird in FAA Museum Yeovilton does not have them !

I agree 100%…..definitly a VICKERS VIXEN.

See “British Flight Testing Martlesham Heath 1920-1939”, page 159.

Same upper wing cut-out, stagger, exhaust. No doubts.

Well done John!

Hello John!

Glad to hear from you since Telford…..remember I bought the 1/72 Anson? Nicolas

About this cockpit pic again…..the Bison or Blackburn horizontal tailplane should be higher than the fuselage. In this case, the tailplane is level. And the vertical tailplane looks very forward of the horiz. tailplane leading edge too, much like a Fairey III.

More, you can see the separation between fabric section and plywood/metal section on the fuselage back. The Bison and Blackburn were all fabric if I am not wrong.
The MG mounting is definitly 1930 fashion, and Bison seems to have been mounting a Scarff Ring all the time.

I would strongly tend to say it is a FAIREY IIIF cockpit, 445th FLIGHT or 440th FLIGHT from checkered tail. Probably no relation with the N serial number.

But that’s only my modest opinion….. 🙂

BISON…OR BLACKBURN?

Thanks a lot….and I am VERY glad to talk with the Bison Global Expert…This machine has been one of my favorite modelling subjects (and still is), but lack of detail information always stopped my enthusiasm.
So any additional info about the beast is WARMLY welcome! (I yes, I am ready to pay for! 🙂 )

About the N.9841 fuselage pic, I agree 100%. As for the previous cockpit pic, I respectfully can say that this is hardly a Bison, since the decking is rounded and not flat. To me it is perhaps a BLACKBURN BLACKBURN. And the checkered vertical tailplane could really belong to one of the few units who used it, 422nd Fleet Spotter Flight.

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…Yes I know it, and very interesting indeed – Thanks a lot anyway!

Thank you for those VERY useful pics!

The radio set is definitly from an A.W. Atlas, and correspond to the T.25 & R.31 W/T sets, which are mentionned in the Atlas manual.

About the cockpit……don’t think it is an Avro Bison. The bison had a very flat fuselage back and a Scarff Ring turret. Maybe Avro 571? (if the N serial apply to the pic)……or Fairey III?