I’ll take a small bet it turns out to be a Whistling Wheelbarrow (Armstrong-Whitworth Argosy, 1950s version)

Adrian

From; ‘The Spotters Handbook’, By, Francis Chichester,1941.

“The noise made by the engine and propellor is also distinctive, and can be compared with a circular saw running mad”.

That’s not a bad description at all, especially if you’ve heard a 1940s vintage circular saw (think a blade 36″ across!).

adrian

Is that Gannet still flying in the USA? Just imagine the puzzlement on the crowds faces if a Shack and a Gannet flew over in formation!

Adrian

It’s a replica built on a real jeep, looks the part though!

Thought that had to be the case – what a wonderful thing to build a replice of, though. More power to their arm!

Now, we’ve had the inflataplane, and the plane for when you want to sling your hook – as we seem to have drifted slightly out of WW2 anyone got a shot of the Durex Delta? :diablo:

Adrian

IIRC a Vatour stood at Kenley for a number of weeks in the late 1950s. The Daily Mail had organised a contest to see who could make the fastest trip between London and Paris (Marble Arch and Arc de Triomphe?), and one of the entrants was a frenchwoman. She persuaded the air force to lend her a Vatour and pilot – easier than it sounds as I believe she had been a heroine of the Resistance. However the pilot mistook disused Kenley for his destination and landed there, damaging the aircraft so that it could not be flown out.

There was an article in Flypast some years ago…

Adrian

The Airspeed AS.31 gets my vote. Thankfully, like most of the Luftwaffe jet projects, it never progressed beyond the drawing board.
Steve P

Who says drugs are a modern thing? You can’t design something looking that looks like that on whisky & soda!

Anyone got a picture of the rotojeep, or the scale model of the (Baines?) “flying wing” designed to allow a tank to be glided in? (and I DON’T mean the Hamilcar – I mean a bolt-on wing!)

Adrian

Adrian

Both tandem-wing designs, if I recall correctly. I rather think the oddness comes from the fact that there are very few tandem-wing aircraft flying (I wait with bated breath for a sea of photos of them to prove me wrong), so the “unusual” shape looks wrong to the eye.

Weird aircraft during WW2 – well, that rules out the HP Heyford! The Hampden/Hereford are fairly strange looking – or howsabout this rare beast, allegedly so flexible its wings flapped in flight!

http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/html%20pages/VICKERS%20WINDSOR.htm

Adrian

Ok, OK, it’s a Queen Bee! Without The Observer’s Book of Moths to hand, it’s a fair guess, surely? Just out of interest, were they ever fitted with the anti-spin strakes most Tigers now wear?

Adrian