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by GuyMassey
Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:14 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Big beast of a biplane, place and history wanted.
Replies: 9
Views: 3383

Re: Big beast of a biplane, place and history wanted.

Well done guys. Your answer has left me a with a further mystery. Having searched, I now find the same photograph on Wiki with a note saying that it is government copyright expired. This photograph and a whole load others were supposedly taken by either my grandfather Ronald, or my uncle Tom. Either...
by GuyMassey
Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:02 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Big beast of a biplane, place and history wanted.
Replies: 9
Views: 3383

Big beast of a biplane, place and history wanted.

The attached is an interesting photograph taken by a family member and is not for re-publishing without permission (hence the watermark, sorry guys).
Does anyone know what it is, and where and when it was used please?
by GuyMassey
Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:42 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition
Replies: 19
Views: 7688

Re: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition

Superb!!! Thank you guys. I will pass your findings on to the fireman's son. I feel quite confident that this is the aircraft in question and that his father's memory was incorrect regarding the date. A fantastic result, well done everyone. I have a few other interesting pictures for research, so ma...
by GuyMassey
Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:34 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition
Replies: 19
Views: 7688

Re: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition

This is definitely the best suggestion to date and I agree wholly with it. My initial thought seeing the picture was that it was a) inverted and b) probably a naval aircraft. The Balliol fits that perfectly! (Grins). It seems that the photographer's memory of the date may be a bit out. He was one of...
by GuyMassey
Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:15 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition
Replies: 19
Views: 7688

Re: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition

Hmmm... Interesting suggestions all of them. I agree that the louver, intake or whatever it is seems to be in the correct position for an early ME109, however 109s did not seem to have a large landing light or cut out in the leading edge of the wing (if that is what it is). The Battle didn't have a ...
by GuyMassey
Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:27 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition
Replies: 19
Views: 7688

Re: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition

A picture of a gun camera aperture.
by GuyMassey
Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:25 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition
Replies: 19
Views: 7688

Re: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition

The attached are higher resolution detail shots and a picture of a gun camera aperture for comparison.
by GuyMassey
Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:05 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition
Replies: 19
Views: 7688

Re: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition

It's definitely not a Stirling, the engine is not radial. It has exhaust stubs in line. I wondered about a Fulmar? The wreckage behind looks like the leading edge of a wing, could the cutout be a gun camera?
by GuyMassey
Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:20 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Mystery crashed aircraft recognition
Replies: 19
Views: 7688

Mystery crashed aircraft recognition

This is a picture of an aircraft that crashed just north of Plymouth on the edge of Dartmoor near Cadover sometime around 1944. The photographer was one of the Plymouth based fire crew. So far no one has been able to identify it, I have my own thoughts, but thought it would be interesting to see wha...
by GuyMassey
Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:38 pm
Forum: Books and DVD's Section
Topic: Kindle Book Recommendations
Replies: 1
Views: 1555

Ten Fighter Boys by Wing Commander Athol DFC & Others

A brilliant book written by 10 fighter pilots, in their own words, as it happened. It got my adrenalin going just sat in my armchair! A must read...