Leave your best guess here
and NO do not cheat and google the registration
and NO do not cheat and google the registration
<<In the early morning rain, with a dollar in my hand>>
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It looks as if the only picture I can see is of the Mekon!
Upside Down In Cloud.....
hang in there Jamie
It will be along shortly -- like most things here -- and the wait will be worth it.....I would post a shot of the Interior - but its a dead give away...externally it was a total departure from the companies usual stuff
Leif
It will be along shortly -- like most things here -- and the wait will be worth it.....I would post a shot of the Interior - but its a dead give away...externally it was a total departure from the companies usual stuff
Leif
<<In the early morning rain, with a dollar in my hand>>
Lesser spotted blue nosed P bird ( English species, now extinc)
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Upside Down In Cloud.....
both spot on
Two of which VL522 and 523 were built
David, Martin and Brian have worked diligently on this one to produce a very rare Auster
Leif
Two of which VL522 and 523 were built
David, Martin and Brian have worked diligently on this one to produce a very rare Auster
Leif
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<<In the early morning rain, with a dollar in my hand>>
The General Service Requirement for the ideal Air O.P. aircraft to succeed the Auster 6 was written by condensing wartime know-how into the A2/45 specifications. Three manufacturers – Auster, Hestons and Miles, built widely different prototypes in attempts to improve the performance of the Auster 6 – they all failed.
Trials quickly showed that Auster’s contender for the A2/45 specifications had some very pecuilar habits. It was a tandem seater in which the rear observer faced aft. The overall silhouette was a distinct breakaway from the traditional Auster and owed a lot, to the wartime Fi.156 Storch.
Apart from a 300 yard take-off, the flap handling was most odd. Outsized flaps were wound down by a handwheel at the pilot’s left hand. These flaps, when down, produced a very high drag coupled with a strong downwash on the tailplane.
None of the A2/45 series were accepted.
Martin Pengelly
Trials quickly showed that Auster’s contender for the A2/45 specifications had some very pecuilar habits. It was a tandem seater in which the rear observer faced aft. The overall silhouette was a distinct breakaway from the traditional Auster and owed a lot, to the wartime Fi.156 Storch.
Apart from a 300 yard take-off, the flap handling was most odd. Outsized flaps were wound down by a handwheel at the pilot’s left hand. These flaps, when down, produced a very high drag coupled with a strong downwash on the tailplane.
None of the A2/45 series were accepted.
Martin Pengelly