I agree with Longshot. However there is a vague resemblance to the Zanoia shaped wings of the 1913 Handley Page biplane.

John

Parts one ,two and three, June ,July and August.

John

Why the ‘Redneck rhetoric’? Yes the top cowl line, might jar the aesthetic eye of some observers (including me) and making a comment about this as an observation is fine. Just as long as opinions are couched in a sensitive way and just simply left at that. There are all too few people around who can use an English wheel these days and it may have been a deadline decision “to get the paint on”. Who knows? That decision is the owners alone.

It’s a real plus to have another Hurricane airborne so my thanks to the owner for sharing it.

I never dream’t I’d see a F.W. 190 fly, but because someone built a close replica which flew and sounded like the original and it filled the same shaped hole in the sky and sat on the ground like those of the past. I reckon I’ve seen a F.w. 190 fly.

John

I had a play with the photo put up by Anne and the serial by the way is K3720.

I would suggest that the compression ratio of the lower rated engines suited the denser humid air conditions of the Far East. The extra perforated top cowls found on some Hawker types in the Indian theatre are more often found on aircraft originally destined for the drier near east. The stainless steel Osprey wings are also different in many ways from the pure Hart / Audax machines and as the erks knew them “An Awdax is a Art wiv an ook”.

Unfortunately there are a number of errors in the other wise excellent Mason book such the Hartebees having only one front gun when they had two and despite being treated as distinctly different type, both it and the Australian Demon were both Demons with slightly varying Army co-op fit.

John

Well it looks like a German chap has found a way in but noting the uniforms those chaps were entering a lot of places by force around that time :p

John

There is definitely an Aston and a Hastings (with the cargo door open) in the background.

John

I agree, It was a great show. As I’m also a vintage car fan the sight of some of the Edwardian and later leviathan racing cars was a delight to the eye and the ears. The sight of three Comper Swifts overhead when I arrived was something I will remember. Well done Shuttleworth, I would have liked to see a few more vintage visitors but the three float amphibians was a nice surprise.

John