Etiennedup Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I am using this pic in my flickr photo-set but cannot identify the aircraft. Any suggestions ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pte1643 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Anson? Edited March 31, 2013 by pte1643 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) The engine is a P&W R-985 Wasp Junior, direct drive, constant speed prop. The aircraft is probably either an Oxford V or a Beech 18/ C-45 / Expeditor, call it what you will. I don't think it's an Anson V. Edited March 31, 2013 by Work In Progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potato Pete Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Harvard? Struggling think of any other twin bladed radials. Or not - didn't notice the fuselage Pete Edited March 31, 2013 by Potato Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truro Model Builder Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Looking at the fuselage I am leaning towards it being an Oxford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test Graham Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 The windows look like Anson to me too. I can't think of anything similar, with that litle kink in the top edge. It surely isn't a Beech 18 fuselage. I must admit I wouldn't have linked Ansons and P&W! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I suppose it could also be a somewhat rare Lockheed Model 10 Electra or Model 12 Electra Junior in RAF service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) I must admit I wouldn't have linked Ansons and P&W! It's not a common coupling at all. Mark V only. Canadian built for local aircrew training, and as far as I can see from a quick google, tending strongly towards being yellow in service, which this doesn't look like. But I certainly can't rule it out being an Anson V, despite a vague feeling that it isn't. In picking candidates I really only feel on sure ground on the basis of the engine, the uniform and the obvious twin-engine low-wing monoplane configuration. My personal aircraft recognition skill set is not good enough to work off such a restricted view of the actual airframe. John Adams might be able to help, as I don;t know anyone who knows as much about Ansons as he does. I am unsure about the life and times of the Anson V and what configurations it came in. The existing one, which is in the Canadian Aviation Museum, is a high roof variant with little portholes. I don't know whether that was what all the Mark V were like. There's a pic of it here on Flickr, but you;ll have to click through, I can't link it in-line here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/news46/3774585043/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Edited March 31, 2013 by Work In Progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test Graham Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 The problem here is that the Mk.V had the plywood fuselage with the round portholes, which this one doesn't. I wouldn't necessarily rule out a yellow scheme, from the quality of the photo. The spinner does point towards one of the US types. The Oxford Mk.V with the P&W seems to have lacked these - as indeed did the Anson Mk.V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarage Vee Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 It does at first glance look like an Oxford if it isn't some other kind of twin impressed into service. The cap badge may be another clue. It's probably a standard RAF badge as issued, but it looks somehow different. Where did the photo originate from, any ideas? It looks very staged and surely with the rarity of colour film at the time it is likely that there are other photos in the same set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarage Vee Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I'm going to agree with Work In Progress: Lockheed Electra 12 http://crimso.msk.ru/Images6/AE/AE72-5/262-1.jpg There's one in Roger Freeman's RAF of WWII in colour with yellow lower cowls on p103. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etiennedup Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 I intend to agree with you V Vee. Although Roger Freeman’s photo is a little inconclusive a few others in a Google image search fit the bill perfectly. So it seems the problem is solved.......thanks to you and Work in Progress. Incidentally, this image comes from a 1943 publication “British Women Go to War” by J.B. Priestley and contains about fifty wartime colour photos by P.G. Hennell. Thanks again chaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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