lol just here to mess with the rivet counters

Aye that's her, Merlin. A poacher's goal but they all count Over to you

Cheers JP

It was a bit of a rebound into an open goal, but as you say, they all count.

OK, I found this nice odd-ball. Can anyone identify it?



All the best

Rowan

It's the Chicken-Man's plane. "If I sit WAAAAAAAAY in the back I won't get hurt when we bump into things!!!"

Looks like one of Rowen's early attempts to cross the English Channel or Loch Ness.

Notice the extral little canoes built into the upper wing for emergency water landing.

Eddie

Hi Ed

Those "canoes" are a clue as to the identity of this ill-fated specialised fighter prototype; think what anyone sat in them might have shot at...

All the best

Rowan

Parnall Scout?

Hi Ben

Wrong aircraft, but you're very much on the right lines.

All the best

Rowan

Aha, It hink I have it: Bristol F.3A?

Hi Ben

No, not the Bristol (although the description on Wiki sounds so similar).

All the best

Rowan

It looks almost like a Blackburn Blackburd...

Hi Michal

Not the Blackburd (or any Blackburn aircraft). Ben is on the right trail with an anti-Zeppelin fighter.

All the best

Rowan

Is it a Robey-Peters Davis Gun carrier?

Hi Sean

It is indeed! Apparently the monstrosity could hardly get off the ground and crashed on its first flight! Why doesn't that seem a surprise?...

Over to you for the next one.

All the best

Rowan

Well, it's easy with enough clues ... !

So ... which fighter once nearly sank a friendly trawler without even leaving the ground?

You would almost think of the spruce goose, tough you could hardly call that a fighter

The ground might have caused it a few problems, too.

Have I done it again? Killed the trivia quiz?

Hi Sean

I could do with a clue to narrow it down a bit. I've tried web-searches but haven't turned up anything.

All the best

Rowan

Sea Fury test firing cannons off the east coast someplace?

Very close, for at least two reasons. There you go - clues!

Ok it wasn't a sea fury. No need for it to be a naval fighter at all come to think of it.
It was a spitfire test firing cannons off Orfordness. Warmer?

I'll go for a Hawker Typhoon, as I remember reading about a test firing incident...

Both getting cooler. One last hint: where was it built?

Hi Sean

A Spitfire testing its guns at the Woolston factory?

All the best

Rowan

Nope. (I know that part of Southampton quite well and believe me, anyone fishing in the water there ought to be sunk for public health reasons.)