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SPANNERmkV · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:16 pm

TOTALLY smitten with the two Tiger Moths tucked under the Lancaster wings!

Do you know what year this is perchance?

Thanks for posting!

SPANNER

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:54 am

I see a Tiger Moth under the left wing, but a Magister under the right.

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Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

OH why..why..why weren't they saved? Oh the humanity!

Great Luftwaffe stuff at Farnbourogh. Imagine a ride program in an Fw200?! :lol:

Chappie

Dave Homewood · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:03 am

Mark Allen M wrote:

Anyone want to take a shot at naming all the aircraft you can see in this photo?

My guesses:

Rear rank, left to right:
Short Stirling
Maybe a Fairey Fulmar?
Mitchell
Wellington
Magister
Lancaster
Tiger Moth
Oxford
Anson

Front rank, left to right:
Hurricane
Looks like it may be some Fleet Air Arm fighters, perhaps a Martlet/Wildcat in there?
Tarpon/Avenger
Proctor? Vega Gull?
Spitfire
Typhoon
Mosquito
Hadrian?

JDK · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:34 am

Confirm that's a Percival Proctor, your 'Hadrian' is a General Aircraft Hotspur, and there's a Douglas Boston between the Mitchell and the Wellington. Can't make out the fighters to the left, though!

Regards,

Forgotten Field · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:36 am

Quote:

Hadrian?

Bite your tongue, lad- that's a General Aircraft Hotspur!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Aircraft_Hotspur

And the only thing that could be better than a Hotspur...

...is a twin Hotspur!

Aeronut · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:00 am

As its got struts on the tailplane its a Hotspur Mk III.

Bottom right corner on the second Franborough 46 photo is the tail of a Vickers Windsor

mr_warbird · **Joined:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:30 am **Posts:** 29

I give ! That is a interesting historic photo. Did all of those aircraft use the Merlin or did England develop any other powerplants during the war ?

Aeronut · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:58 am

Both the Stirling and Wellington are likely to have Bristol Hercules twin row radial engines (Could also be fitted to the Lancaster to make it a Mk II). The Typhoon has the Napier Sabre which was a 24 cylinder sleeve valve engine in an H arrangement. The Anson and Oxford have the Armstrong Siddley Lynx radial but that was very much pre war as was the Dh Gypsy Major of the Tiger Moth and Magister whilst the Proctor had a Gypsy six.

Did the UK develop any engines during WW2?

Have I mentioned the Jet engine yet? There was the Power Jets/Rover/Rolls Royce W2 Welland, the de Havilland Goblin, the Metropolitan Vicker Beryl just to name the ones that got off the ground before the war ended.

Jim W · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:34 am

Farnborough photos:

1.
Ju88
Ju52
Me110
Do335
Supermarine Seafang
Blackburn Firebrand
Tail of Ju352
2.
Ju352
Fw200
He177
Fiesler F104 'Reichenberg' piloted V1
Ju188
Ju388?
He 219
Ta152
Fw 190
Me 109G
Me 108
Front of Firebrand again
Supermarine Spitfire F21?
Bristol Brigand
Tail of Fairey Firefly?

As to engines, don't forget the RR Griffon, Bristol Centaurus, RR Vulture

Further to my post about good reads, When these photos were taken, Eric Brown was at Farnborough and will have flown all of these photo'd aircraft plus a few hundred other types

SPANNERmkV · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:24 pm

What I wouldn't give to pilot a Fiesler F104 'Reichenberg' piloted V1
ONCE? :shock:

My tired eyes thought I saw another Tiger Moth under that far Lanc wing, but you are correct- they lopped a wing off and called it a Magister. :wink:

GREAT PHOTOS!

I hope some of those made it into Museums rather than getting melted into non-stick frying utensils... :roll:

Jim W · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:34 pm

As my mother brought me up to be pedantic and I spotted my own mistake, I should have said Fieseler F103 R IV Reichenburg- just before anyone else spotted it!

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3330

SPANNERmkV wrote:

My tired eyes thought I saw another Tiger Moth under that far Lanc wing, but you are correct- they lopped a wing off........

....and took the steel fuselage frame out....

SPANNERmkV wrote:

.......and called it a Magister. :wink:

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