I like it!

John

I’ll bet the torque rolls were fun.

John

Nice to know. Here’s “wot I wrote”.

My first and lingering thought is a Ju 34 with underwing codes and crosses all smudged by movement and a poor photo. Short nose ,Radial unequal taper wing and narrow tailplane. Note also how the rear fuselage top appears higher than the nose area. Just visible behind the t/e are cabin windows? Crucially ,Where did it come from?

John

Somewhere I have a pretty complete report on this crash which was prepared by Brian Walker. If I recall the accident was thought to have been caused by the parachute harness of one of the crew getting entangled in the controls during a critical phase of the climb out from Syerston. I too live not very far from the crash site.

John

Well this one hasn’t moved so I will open it up a little. It’s Austrian!

John

1930’s cigarette card I picked up showing the BA Lockheed 10 Electra G-AEPN, but with the reg and lining in red with black outline – inaccurate, or were only the Super Electras painted with the blue reg and trim?

May I suggest that the letters are dark blue with a red outline. I am puzzled as to why they should have a red outline. The card is a hand painted copy of Flight photo 14018S by the way. (see page 383 AJ.Jackson Brit Civ Ac).

John

Not very common, another type to use a one piece elevator was the Tipsy Trainer and some Arados.

John

504K and N, Mongoose trainer and Tutor, Tomtit, Moths, Tiger Moth, Blackburn B.2 (Reserve schools), Hart ‘T’, Don, Magister, Oxford, Master, Anson, Harvard, Dominie, Chipmunk Auster T.7, Athena, Baliol, Marathon, Provost, T.11 JP, Gnat, Tucano.

I haven’t included any T versions of operational a/c except the Hart.

John