Aircraft Identification Required Please

[AshVX220]

Just seen this image on another thread (in the models section).
The spitfire is 1:1 scale model. but what is the aircraft in front of it?
Looks like a twin engine Flying wing design.

[LotusOmega375D]

Comet?

[Johnnybee]

LotusOmega375D said:

Comet?

Different view

[aeropilot]

Yes, its the very last Comet 1 to be built.

Shame its in BOAC colours though, as it was never operated by BOAC.
Was originally delivered to Air France in 1953, as F-BGNZ, before being returned to de Havilland in 1956 for conversion to Comet 1XB fit, and gaining the reg G-APAS.
G-APAS was then later handed over to the MOS and flown as a flying laboratory allocated military serial XM823 until the late 1960's.

[AshVX220]

Thanks for the responses guys, definitely a case of angle and the rest of it being cut out, with the single "hump" over the engines it almost looked UAV like to me and a rudderless flying wing.

[AlexIT]

45 minutes for the correct answer on a Monday morning... PH aircraft knowledge strikes again

[Eric Mc]

And you weren't too mistaken in the flying wing assumption. In one of the original designs for the de Havilland DH106, it was ALMOST a flying wing. They certainly envisaged it not needing a tailplane.



Thew DH108 showed that flying an aeroplane without a tailplane was not easy.

[V41LEY]

Ok then - what’s the aircraft underneath the Comet’s wing in the white livery ?

[aeropilot]

V41LEY said:

Ok then - what’s the aircraft underneath the Comet’s wing in the white livery ?

If you mean the bit of aircraft between the top of the Spitfire wing and the underside of the Comet wing?

SA Bulldog.

[V41LEY]

aeropilot said:

If you mean the bit of aircraft between the top of the Spitfire wing and the underside of the Comet wing?

SA Bulldog.

Agreed !
Go on then - the wing above the Spitfire with the red wing tip ?

[aeropilot]

V41LEY said:

Agreed !
Go on then - the wing above the Spitfire with the red wing tip ?

Andover

[AshVX220]

I've just noticed the little chippy behind the Spitfire too, spend many a happy hour in those as a kid.

[Composite Guru]

AshVX220 said:

I've just noticed the little chippy behind the Spitfire too, spend many a happy hour in those as a kid.

Me too in the ATC. "Jump jump John!!"

I have a friend that has part ownership in one.

Went up in it last year. That was a blast from the past.

[Eric Mc]

Saw a Chippie landing at Farnborough on Sunday. Nice to see - and hear.

[yellowjack]

Eric Mc said:

Saw a Chippie landing at Farnborough on Sunday. Nice to see - and hear.

I've watched a Chipmunk landing on 06 Short at Farnborough. It was bordering on the farcical watching it. Such a vast runway, such a small aeroplane. The pilot put it down neatly at the keys and was off onto the first taxiway. Which left him (or her?) with an awfully long way to taxi a tail-dragger.

Just one of those visually comical scenes playing out at which you can't help but chuckle.

[Eric Mc]

That runway is closed now.

[AshVX220]

Composite Guru said:

Me too in the ATC. "Jump jump John!!"

I have a friend that has part ownership in one.

Went up in it last year. That was a blast from the past.

Ah yes, that video was an institution in itself!