Bonhams in the do-do?

[iSore]

I can't get too upset about a couple of old Jags being cut up:

[Mark A S]

I must protest that really is an offensive photo !!

[Astacus]

Sad photo, anyone know why the highlight on the Spit with the odd canopy?

[Red Devil]

CanAm said:

Red Devil said:

Anything is possible if you are sufficiently convincing and prospective purchasers have the urge to acquire what they believe is something worth posessing.
A lot of people over here will have heard about what is probably the world's most well known scam but how many of them know the identity of the perpetrator?

Are you able to tell us more?

The scam involved selling certain New York landmarks* to gullible folk.
Underpinned by the production of some distinctly dodgy documentary evidence.

 * Yes, plural, it wasn't just the one most people will be aware of.

[lufbramatt]

Astacus said:

Sad photo, anyone know why the highlight on the Spit with the odd canopy?

I think that's a very early Spitfire (can tell by the shape of the windscreen lower frame) with a possibly experimental, certainly non-standard, canopy, that doesn't seem to have been recorded anywhere else. Possibly from before they adopted the bulged "Malcom" hood.

[aeropilot]

lufbramatt said:

Astacus said:

Sad photo, anyone know why the highlight on the Spit with the odd canopy?

I think that's a very early Spitfire (can tell by the shape of the windscreen lower frame) with a possibly experimental, certainly non-standard, canopy, that doesn't seem to have been recorded anywhere else. Possibly from before they adopted the bulged "Malcom" hood.

Yes, early PR Spit, with an early side bulged canopy that was designed from requests by the early PR pilots IIRC....there is a photo taken by a German soldier of one of these early Spits with this style canopy on a beach at Dunkirk in 1940, taken after it had crash landed on the beach. The subject of these bulged canopies came up recently on one of the vintage aviation forums and someone with a lot of Spit knowledge posted an image of the original Supermarine drgs for this early PR canopy IIRC.

[lufbramatt]

aeropilot said:

Yes, early PR Spit, with an early side bulged canopy that was designed from requests by the early PR pilots IIRC....there is a photo taken by a German soldier of one of these early Spits with this style canopy on a beach at Dunkirk in 1940, taken after it had crash landed on the beach. The subject of these bulged canopies came up recently on one of the vintage aviation forums and someone with a lot of Spit knowledge posted an image of the original Supermarine drgs for this early PR canopy IIRC.

Makes sense. We discussed those photos and wondering how that shape could be injection moulded for a model kit. And it can't.

[Yertis]

lufbramatt said:

Makes sense. We discussed those photos and wondering how that shape could be injection moulded for a model kit. And it can't.

That's a shame. Would have prevented a lot of Lancaster canopy headaches.