The What is it? Game

[Geedee]

Don't think I'm right, but I'll have a stab at EE/BAC Lightning.

Well done Terry, got it in one
This one is at the BDAC museum not far from my home and is undergoing a restoration.

 

[Airframes]

Ah !
I was uncertain due to that avionics (?) hatch standing proud. Now I see it's partly open.
OK, try this one. Not a great choice, but a quick selection on my part.

 

[Token]

British Aerospace EAP demonstrator.

T!

 

[Airframes]

Well done !
It's the EFA/EAP, prototype for what became the Eurofighter Typhoon, now on display at RAFM Cosford.
Last time I saw it, before taking this photo, was at the roll-out at Warton, in 1986, when I was presenting an AV show.

 

[Token]

OK, here is an aircraft I always liked, but have never seen in person.

T!

 

[Airframes]

Can't make out whether that's a spinning prop, or a jet intake. I'm probably wrong, but I'll have a guess at 'The Flaming Pencil' - Bristol Type 188.

 

[Graeme]

Well, I think it is a prop spinning and I was thinking of another Bristol - the Britannia. But the fuselage is too small.
Now thinking Republic, the XF-12 Rainbow?

 

[Token]

Well, I think it is a prop spinning and I was thinking of another Bristol - the Britannia. But the fuselage is too small.
Now thinking Republic, the XF-12 Rainbow?

Excellent, yes, the XF-12 Rainbow. I was always struck by the lines of the aircraft (except the tail).

T!

 

[Graeme]

Thanks Token.

Not so beautiful...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Interesting.

 

[Airframes]

Jan's first attempt at models ?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

You really think it looked that good Terry, I know mine didn't.

 

[Airframes]

Yeah, but you haven't seen the starboard side yet !!!!

 

[Graeme]

Alrighty, time for some clues then!

British.
1939.
A proof-of-concept aircraft for a revolutionary 36-passenger airliner design utilising what the designer called a "rectiliner wing". Never built as both the designer and test pilot crashed to their deaths in the aircraft above three weeks before WW2 commenced.

If he had lived and found a backer, this is what the airliner would have looked like...

 

[Graeme]

The full picture...

 

[Airframes]

Er ...... I still haven't a clue what it is !

 

[vikingBerserker]

That is pretty cool looking!

 

[Airframes]

Barnwell BSW.
Designer Frank Barnwell, with Bristol Aeroplane Company the interested party.
I'll admit to cheating slightly, by checking some of my larger, older reference books, as I thought I'd seen a drawing or pic of the proposed airliner somewhere before.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

If that's it, nice going Terry, I have looked till I'm cross-eyed.

 

[Graeme]

Sorry Terry, nothing to do with Barnwell or Bristol. I'm assuming your books don't have an illustration of the Barnwell BSW? Here it is - this is what Captain Frank Barnwell was killed in...

I'll give this one more try. Don't want to drag this out but I'll post one more photo of the mystery aircraft with a bit more of the registration...