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Old aeroplane photo's.

The green brown and tan biplane is actually a "WW1 type" home-build kit plane called a 'Wolf Boredom fighter' from the 1970s. https://www.adap.com/index.htm for details. This one is in what looks like early French Air Force colours.

G-ANLO is a DeHavilland Tiger Moth, here's another shot of it
 
There's a few million quid here. if the auction the other day was anything to go by. Mk IX Spitfires Outside Castle Bromwich Flight Sheds.

Phil
 

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Hi Darby,

Hmmm...I think you got me here. From L to R - P51D Mustang, Eurofighter, F16, Aardvark. I like my planes with fans at the front, don't know much about jets after about 1950.

Your answers are awaited with interest!

Big Gee
 
The last 3 photos Jean posted are a home-built based on a WW1 French Spad fighter (as Lloyd said it has another name); Tiger Moth; and the four-engine plane is a Handley Page Hastings of RAF Transport Command.

Big Gee
 
The centre one is the most fascinating. A Supermarine 'S5', a trophy-winning seaplane whose design was adopted into the Spitfire fighter of WW2.
 
Hi Jean thanks for the aviation pics,
i must have 100s of them as I used to go to all the airshows & Stations
Brize Norton being a favourite as is The Shuttleworth collection of our "proper planes"
have flown in a Dak, Anson,& Twin Pin
 
Heres 3 for you spotters, all taken in 1950 2 in Kano Nigeria and one in Nairobi, I was with 82(PR) Squadron at the time on the last Lancaster Sqdn in the RAF. Eric
 
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Big G you got the middle one right , but the other 2 are Avro Tudor (not many made) and a "Hermes" with the old BOAC (G-ALOK Helena) Eric
 
Hi Cookie,

You got me there all right. I wonder how many people can claim to have flown in a Hermes or a Tudor?

Big Gee
 
Big G, You may be correct (You sound as if you know your aircraft) but after I had Taken the photo I asked what it was and was told Hermes. Eric
 
I agree with you ref: Photos 1 and 3. The Vanguard was a turbo-prop; your Photo No 1 isn't.

I like to think my real interest in aircraft is WW1 and WW2, and the years between the wars.

Big Gee
 
Big G, personally I Haven't flew in either but have flown over 2000 hrs in Lancasters,I was a Wireless operator, also in Sunderlands Handley Page hastings and DC3 's from 1948 to 1956.
 
I take it that your time on Lancs was during the war. You have my very greatest respect.

I never flew in a Lanc, but have had the honour of boarding the Battle of Britain flight aircraft.

My uncle was in Sunderlands during WW2, and used to tell the tale of how he broke the strain-bar off the toilet....true or not, I don't know. He also used to tell how it was sometimes difficult to get the machine to lift off in certain conditions...maybe that was why he damaged the toilet.

Regards,

Big Gee
 
Big G, No it was after the war( june 1948 to June 1956 was my service period) the lancs were stripped of all armourment and were purely used for survey work because of there long range and reliability, also there ability to fly the survey height of 22,500 ft. One our Lancasters was restored to wartime appearance and is now in the memorial flight. Eric
PS I was only 15 when war finished in 1945
 
Big Gee said:
That I think is a Messerschmidt experimental single-seat fighter, not sure of the designation but something like 409.

Am I warm?

Big Gee

I've just has another closer look and I think now it might be a Focke-Wulf Ta 152 - it's obviously a hand-drawn sketch rather than a photo, which makes it more difficult to identify.

Am I warmer?
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Very much warmer.
I've got it down as a Focke Wulf 190.
I did the drawing at Hendon, in the aircraft museum, but because they don't like you using ink inside, I had to put the washes on the drawing in the car park with rocks to hold down the paper as it was blowing a gale at the time.
In all the dash I missed drawing the right wing, so you could be more than forgiven it was experimental

ladywood
 
Some more older type planes, with an even older and much quieter Birmingham Airport.

Phil
 

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Hi Darby,

Hmmm...I think you got me here. From L to R - P51D Mustang, Eurofighter, F16, Aardvark. I like my planes with fans at the front, don't know much about jets after about 1950.

Your answers are awaited with interest!

Big Gee
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Big Gee
They are all USAF Memorial Flight so it wouldn't be a Typhoon, although not sure what it is myself.

The last one is an A10 Thunderbolt " Tankbuster ".
 
The RAF actually chartered an a/c to bring us back from West Africa!!! A Vickers Viking of Hunting Airlines in 1951 (still going today) from Takoradi, Gold Coast (now Ghana) to Blackbushe London. I took this pic at Gao in middle of Sahara Desert, a refuelling station manned by the French Foreign Legion. They had taken us out there in a Handley Page Hastings of Transport Command, why they did not take us back I don't know.
Incidently the RAF had a military version of this a/c, the Valetta. Eric
 
Big Gee said:
Here you are, aviation buffs. Three of mine to ponder over...

Big Gee

PS: hope you don't mind, Jean?
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The one on the left intrigues me.
P for prototype.
Contra rotating props.
A hint of a Mustang and a blister canopy.
1943???

ladywood

This should be easy for you.
 
Hi Ladywood,

My 3 photos are:

Martin-Baker MB5
Macchi-Castoldi MC72 (which was a very close copy of the S6B)
Focke-Wulf 200 Condor civilian type.

Strangely, I've just been speaking to my contact at Martin-Baker Aircraft Ltd. One of the very few surviving British aerospace companies. My company still supplies them.

Your new sketch: I'd have said B24 Liberator, but as only 2 engines are visible it could possibly be a B25 Mitchell, but I don't think so. (The Mitchell has distinct gull-wing effect at the wing-root).

Big Gee
 
I would say it is a Liberator and Ladywood ran out of paper before he could add two more engines. Then again I may be wrong.
 
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