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Old 19th Jul 2004, 20:56
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Are you the Vickers Type 143 "Bolivian Scout" per chance ?
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Are you a product of Weybridge operating in Bolivian warpaint?

Too quick on the draw for me there Bre, well done
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 09:46
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You have control, Bre.....


(for brief details of the war career of the six aircraft, see here)
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 12:21
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Thanks Archimedes

I had a long and windy career.

PS : I'll be off for internet-free holidays starting at the end of the week, this means that the answer will be posted here Friday morning, unless someone finds out before, of course.

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Old 20th Jul 2004, 13:20
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Are you the Westland Whirlwind helicopter Bre ?
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 13:51
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No, that would have been too easy
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 14:02
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I guessed as much as I hit the return key

How about Auster (a light Southerly wind in Roman terms)??
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 14:09
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By the same token I suppose Hurricane, Typhoon and Tempest are also too easy? As is Tornado

Or is it to do with windy like winding around something - snakes, for instance. Airacobra?

SD

Just thought of Chinook!

(and I don't think there was a Fairey F*rt)

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Old 20th Jul 2004, 15:24
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LowNSlow & Saab Dastard

None of those, and not winding like a snake.

Yet, there is the start of some kind of faint clue in one of SD's propos@ls
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 16:09
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Ah, of course, the Fairey Flatulence!



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Old 20th Jul 2004, 16:56
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this is just "the start of some kind of faint clue"

Out of sheer curiosity, which Fairey hairyplane got this so poetic nickname ? I tried some Googling, but to no avail.
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 17:25
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I'm afraid I just made it up!!

It seemed so ... right!
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Old 20th Jul 2004, 17:32
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SD.

Is the Fairey Flatulence the same sort of aircraft as the Bristol Botty Burp, ie both used for the same thing !!!! .

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Old 22nd Jul 2004, 10:13
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Clues of the day (answer posted tomorrow morning) :

Military, post WW2
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Old 22nd Jul 2004, 14:57
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Are you the WC-130 Weather research aircraft?

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Old 22nd Jul 2004, 15:10
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Sorry, no
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Old 22nd Jul 2004, 19:53
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Le Fouga CM 175 Zephyr avec 35 years of service, perhaps?
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No, a few years more.

but I fink zat we 'ave anozer clue in zere
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Old 22nd Jul 2004, 20:39
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Dassault Ouragan?
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Old 22nd Jul 2004, 20:56
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Wasn't aware it had a long career.
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