It was the u/c that irked me. It’s the one off Bellanca trainer of 1941.

John

I get the impression of a heavily “arranged” and artworked picture. The top left is clearly a Morane and the centre machine has a look of the Nieuport monoplane whilst the third is a Taube like creation.

John

Here’s a similar early one of mine.

John

This appears to be a Bristol Boxkite with the extended wing of the Military model or possibly a variant of the original Farman layout.

John

The S.31 was an exact aerodynamic model of the Stirling which revealed the need to increase the incidence angle but too late to incorporate the necessary mods which among other things would have meant replacing all of the centre section bomb support structure (ref Barnes). So a compromise of extending the u/c to give a greater ground incidence angle of 3 deg more on take off. Thus leading to the troublesome u/c problems.

Earlier Shorts had used a Scion Senior to prove the Sunderland hull. this spanned 55′ where the S.31 was 49’7″ span. The Scion wing was fabric covered and the S.31 was ply.

John

No, Norfolk. The location is actually Morston.

John

Heinkel He 57?

John