Tzaw1
Airman 1st Class
Low-drag turret.
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Yes Verner. It was an aerodynamic representation of a gun turret.
The photo actually shows the P.92/2. THis was a small scale flying testbed for the full size P.92, which was to be a Turret fighter, similar to the Defiant,designed to F.11/37 but in an attempt to minimise drag a special turret was designed that was almost flat and this was built to test the theory. The turret was also intended to be used of RAF heavy bombers (a version of the of the Avro Manchester being schemed with one above AND below the centre fuselage) and unlike other turrets, it was to carry 4 20mm cannon.
The P.92/2 demonstrator was actuyally built by another company, Heston, and they called it the JA.8.
The photo actually shows the P.92/2. THis was a small scale flying testbed for the full size P.92, which was to be a Turret fighter, similar to the Defiant,designed to F.11/37 but in an attempt to minimise drag a special turret was designed that was almost flat and this was built to test the theory. The turret was also intended to be used of RAF heavy bombers (a version of the of the Avro Manchester being schemed with one above AND below the centre fuselage) and unlike other turrets, it was to carry 4 20mm cannon.
The P.92/2 demonstrator was actuyally built by another company, Heston, and they called it the JA.8.
carson1934
Senior Airman
G'day Wayne. It's gotta be the Miles M.68 Boxcar (G-AJJM)...?
Speaking of Miles...
Hi Graeme,
what's your picture? a navalized version of the Miles M/57 Aerovan or just an artist impression?
carson1934
carson1934
Senior Airman
Hi Verner,
"purdy" means "pretty" or what? help a poor follow from the darkest, obscurest, insidest (no, not Oxford English) corner of Italy....
carson1934
verner
Airman 1st Class
Yes, "pretty" in a Southern US slang.
You got it Grame, thats a wierd looking painting of an Aerovan-boat thing
Yep. Just wishful thinking by Miles.
carson1934
Senior Airman
No wonder my friends from New Zealand didn't understand when I said purdy! thanks for the information
carson1934
carson1934
Senior Airman
Somebody knows who this fellow is?
carson1934
carson1934
carson1934
Senior Airman
I'm pretty sure I have seen this very picture (from a different angle) on this forum but right now I just can't locate it, sorry Waynos
carson1934
Maybe Vickers Wellington Mk.VII?
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Somebody knows who this fellow is?
carson1934
I'm sure we've had this one on the forum before. Different picture but same plane, as I remember thinking it looked like the Lancashire Prospector but bigger. With 231 pages though I'm not going looking for it
lingo
Airman 1st Class
I can't leave Carson1934 in suspense any longer. The Gloster F9/37
Tzaw1
Airman 1st Class
Beaufighter IF R2866 with wide tailplane and twin rudders.
So they write in Putnam's Bristol Aircraft since 1910
So they write in Putnam's Bristol Aircraft since 1910
