There was a BE.2e shot down on that day but the serial was 7192 both crew being killed 2Lt Cravos and Flt Sgt Sheperd. No other BE.2 in combat on that date according to Henshaw and Hobson.

John

The Vol II part 2 pages 515-529 are Experimental Testing of Radial Air-Cooled engines and the 615-618 are Factory Inspection methods. I have a bound set and a set of part works. My Vol 2 part two goes to page 876.

John

A page from Air Reserve Gazette Oct 1947.

Thanks to AA’s persistence and some good work by Paul M, I feel that we have a reasonable closure to this interesting little aeroplane’s sad end. I have read that the name Satyr was a pun on when some friendly commentators referred to it as a satire on current fighter design. (Attributed to A.H.Lukins)

Perhaps the only details left for query are why was the unfortunate Mr Yamamoto on his way to Stockholm, and was this gentleman interred in Denmark?

John

Of interest there are quite a number of line illustrations in Metal Aircraft Construction by M. Langley (Pitman’s 1934) of A.W joints and spar fittings. It would be of interest to know where Alf Granger got his information from when he drew the drawings for his Siskin Data Plan 3 as the fuselage construction page is very highly detailed. Could I also suggest that you might find a lot of commonality with the AW Atlas airframe.

Regards

John

I think that Anne has found it. There seem to be two types used on the Master with one being of a conventional four lobe cast type and the other of the type in question, having a more complex five lobe structure.

Anne, You may recall I once asked about a DH Pussmoth propeller. I’ve since found it to be off a Fox Moth.

Regards

John

Some of us do try to write a reasonable form of English despite having left secondary school at age 15. In my opinion, Americanisms and culture are the root cause of a general laxity, where everything is shortened or abbreviated, I no longer use an application on my mobile telephone (don’t they mean program) but an app. Let’s not even mention ‘text speak’

I send model aircraft parts around the world and I label customs forms as such. But to America I might use the word ‘airplane’ for clarity.

The word celebrity used to carry notions of respect or admiration. Now it seems to mean someone who has managed to accrue wealth despite having no saving graces nor personality.

The substitution of the word Shed for Hangar in reference to early British aviation is, as has already been mentioned is quite correct, because that’s exactly what they were.

John

The rotation is British and it doesn’t look very big. Dove /Devon?

John