The What is it? Game

[Graeme]

It's a hatch? They're locking mechanisms?
The angle puzzles me - which direction is the nose?

Second thoughts - is that the wing root?

 

[ww2restorer]

Here is another view. Immediately above first photo. yes it is wing root Graeme. This is cockpit.

 

[Airframes]

Percival Proctor ?

 

[Capt. Vick]

Bf 108?

 

[ww2restorer]

Airframes has it. One of the few remaining and airworthy. Your turn airframes.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Way to go Terry!

 

[Airframes]

Heck, I remember the days when there were quite a few of them around, like these at the PFA Rally at Cranfield, in the 1980's.

OK, try this one.

 

[Airframes]

No takers yet ?
OK, a couple of clues, and another shot of the area shown, with a bit more detail.
It's from a period near to the Proctor, it's a trainer, and a greenhouse with planks for wings would probably look better !!

 

[Graeme]

Hi Terry. Percival Prentice?

And nice job on the Proctor!

 

[GrauGeist]

Hi Terry. Percival Prentice?

And nice job on the Proctor!

Sure looks like it to me, Graeme!

 

[Airframes]

Yep, It's a Percival Prentice, this one at the Newark Air Museum.

 

[Graeme]

Thanks Terry!
For a while I believed that the exhaust stub was part of an undercarriage bracing!

This next one - very rare and I understand Percival had involvement...

 

[GrauGeist]

Hmmm...first impression was French...

But if Percival was involved, I may be wrong, then

 

[Airframes]

I've seen that tail somewhere ...................

 

[Graeme]

Here's a bit of the other end - a British Trimotor.....

 

[Airframes]

Hmm - I was thinking DH Drover, but that was single fin, and a different shape at the front end. The twin fins are not what I was tying to identify, now that I've seen the front end.

 

[Graeme]

The twin-fin eventually became a single fin...

 

[Graeme]

Sunday evening and I think it's time to bury this one and move on.
It was the Saro-Percival Mailplane...

Eventually the design was handed over to Spartan aircraft and with a single tail became the Spartan Cruiser...

Spartan Cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Open House.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Pretty slick aircraft.

 

[Airframes]

Nice one.
I was thinking of a Spartan type when I saw the shot of the fuselage, but I'll admit it's not one I've seen before.