Phew! That same story was one rumoured around the Argentine jet programme too.
Which was why I guessed pulqui, which seemed to fit since you posted a question
about the pulqui before too.

Ok here is one I prepared eariler. Name all four aircraft, what they have in common,
which is the odd one out, and why.

Ok. From the hip it's a Hawker Fury, a Hawker Sea Hawk, a Hawker Harrier and a Hawker Thingamabob. Sydney Camm was involved in all of them, but the Thingamabob never entered production.

Can somebody put the final nail in the Thingamabobs name, so that I can be cocky for a while before JP says my conclusion on Camm is wrong .

Tony

Not bad Tony.

Camm is what they have in common. And that is a sea hawk.

But thats not a harrier, or a Fury, or a thingymabob neither.

only one went into production, the sea hawk. But that isn't
the odd one out.

Nooooo, I was even wrong about what I was wrong about. Hmmm.

The vtol must be the Kestrel then, but then I guess I'm in too deep again. Will think some more. By the way, isn't the Thingamabob rather ugly?

Tony

A bit like the smug mustachioed B011@cks smiling back at you
Fugly. pure fugly.

Well, the moustache is quite distinguished anyway. Could it be some kinda testversion of the Henley? I guess the lengths could match up.

Tony

Hawker Hotspur, Hawker Hornet, Sea Hawk, P1127 Kestrel the Hotspur is the only 2 seater

All correct Andrew. And the hotspur is the odd one out. But not because it is a two seater.
The connection with Sir Sydney is the key here.

JP

I have no idea, (and can't find anything on the net, stumped

Well, the Kestrel was the only one with a Bristol engine, but that seems unlikely. Was it the only one that Camm didn't see fly? No, that's nonsense, he died in 1966, five years after first flight. Was it the only he didn't fly in personally?

Nope. Not sure if he flew in any of them.

Whoops I got that wrong before, I mis-typed.
It is not the Hotspur that is the one out.

And that is not a Hornet.

So, we have Sir Sydney as the connection. Why?

We have a Hotspur, Hawk and Kestrel

We need the odd one out and why and the name of the
last aircraft.

Sorry folks for that "senior" moment. My mid-life crisis starts today.

OK, I'll guess that it's a Hawker Hornbill (thought Hornet was a little suspect, given the engine) and that it's the odd one out because W G Carter, not Camm, was the lead designer.

That's it! Camm designed parts of the Hornbill, but Carter was the chief designer.
All the other planes had Camm as chief designer.

Back to you Sean.

I bow to your superior knowledge I guessed without a pic of either aircraft, since found a pic of both and it is definately the Hornbill and Camm wasn't in charge for that one

You have to love these old aircraft names ...

... talking of which, and with a nod to my last Q as well, which fighter was nicknamed the Earwig?

by appearance the F7U Cutlass but it seems to have had a profusion of nicknames, few complimentary

... but not this one, I'm afraid. I suppose once you've gained a reputation as the "Ensign Eliminator", nothing else comes quite up to scratch ...

Time for a clue - though perhaps not much of one: this aircraft has featured in this quiz before, but not as one of the answers.

My guess is the Blackburn Buccaneer because of it's air brake configuration.

It's a good answer, but it's not the one we're looking for.

(Whose catchphrase was that, then?)

One last clue: it was from Europe, the non-Communist bit (in old money), but not the UK.

Anybody ... ?

Just dusting this one off ...

Duh..




Actually I got some very amusing hits from Google on aircraft nicknames, and I'm sure I've seen this before but I can't remember where,

two gems I hadn't seen before the "Lawn dart" (F-16) and "die eierlegende Wollmilchsau" (Tornado)

Just giving this its weekly bump... Hope I've not killed this thread just by bringing vermin into it!