The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures

[treadigraph]

Contra-rotating Seafire?

[BEagle]

Not many multi-engined Seafires that I know of, treadders old bean!

Not a turboprop, Airbedane....

Multi-engined, not a jet or a turboprop....and didn't swing.

Not a helicopter either!

[Airbedane]

Built by Short Bros?

[BEagle]

Yes!!




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[LowNSlow]

Would you be a Short Sealand by any chance?

[BEagle]

I would not!

Can't really see a flying boat operating from a carrier!

Nor am I a Sperrin!

[LowNSlow]

Then you are a Sturgeon sir!

[BEagle]

TADA!!

Yes indeed! I nearly told Airbedane that the reason he probably thought I was French was because the Sturgeon TT2 had a very De Gaulle like snout!

Here's a piccy of a model of the Short Sturgeon:

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpo...f/sturgeon.htm

[Bus429]

Another cryptic clue...

I stopped it going quiet.

[treadigraph]

That'll teach me to read the previous posts correctly!

[Airbedane]

Many thanks LowNSlow, at last I (and my Ops Room) can get back to work!

Good one Beags, BTW.

A

[LowNSlow]

Bus are you a Polikarpov Po-2 as flown by The Night Witches?

Good choice BEags

[Bus429]

L & S - No

I'm part of the whole....

[Tim Inder]

Are you a Lightning?

Wild stab in the dark there!

[BEagle]

Were you a single engined aeroplane?

[Bus429]

BEagle - I'm part of a single engined aircraft

[Bus429]

I am part of a vital part of the engine........

[BEagle]

Are you a wholly internal part of a piston engine?

[Bus429]

I'm a component part of a larger component mounted on a piston engine.

[BEagle]

Are you electric in nature?