Guess the Aeroplane (just a bit of fun.)

Dead on Simon, it was built in England under license to Burnelli! This one, the only one, was painted in Free French colours, and was de Gaule's personal aircraft in North Africa.

How many of these can you identify? (You have to be quick!) -

Simon, it's not a de Haviland T.K.4 is it?

Klipkopwildlife
Not a DH although I understand the designer used to work for them.
Two started, one completed, flew once and was written off on landing.

Eric
Too many P51Ds!

Not over-keen on Mustprangs myself -

Try this one - and what is special about it?

Eric
Its electric - Sikorsky Firefly demonstrator.

The lifting lugs on the battery packs give it away

Quorneng wrote: Klipkopwildlife
Not a DH although I understand the designer used to work for them.
Two started, one completed, flew once and was written off on landing.
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It's just that the engine is righthand rotation (from the front) so I thought 'Gypsy'

Clever thinking but its not a Gipsy (rather bigger) although the engine was designed by the same person - clue!

Come to think of it every body considers the Gipsy goes round the wrong way but as a Merlin is geared its crankshaft actually turns to the right from the front!

It looks like I'll have to find something more obscure! Firefly electric it was/is, gives a fifteen minute flight on a charge. (So, by the time traffic control has given you clearance, you can make it to the airfield boundary before running out of juice~! )

Try this one, then! -

It's a Verhees Delta.

Simon, it's a Napier-Heston racer, only one built, flew in 1940 and seems it didn't crash and kill someone! It was just retired.

Quite correct but according to Wikipedia and other sources:

"Recovering from the abrupt takeoff, Richmond carried out a preliminary test flight with gear extended throughout but after only five minutes airborne, while encountering inadequate elevator control, the engine overheated. According to some accounts, Richmond was being scalded by steam from the radiator mounted below the cockpit, and in haste to carry out a forced landing, inadvertently stalled the aircraft at approximately 30 ft above the airfield.[8] Other sources state that the coolant leak only occurred after impact.[9] The aircraft impacted heavily, with the undercarriage driven through the wings, and the tail broken off."

The part finished second one was apparently lying around Heston airfield until the mid 50s and was eventually burnt.

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We seem to have lost Eric's picture.

In the meantime a question - did the English Electric Canberra have air brakes?