Next clue: think of the Martin-Baker fighter series. There’s a connection in the name, as well as the history…
OK, another clue. Finland’s aircraft museum has a good extant example of this aircraft.
There’s are Martinsyde F-4 Buzzard at the Jyväskylä museum which seems to fit the bill?
We have a winner, phew! Yes, the Martinsyde Buzzard. One of the greatest aircraft of it’s era, it would today be mentioned alongside Fokkers, Sopwiths, etc, but the war ended just before mass production began. The fact it remained in service for another 21 years shows just what a fantastic design it was, and a tribute to Martinsyde. The idea of 1,000’s of British, French, and American Buzzards flying through the air would have been amazing.
Over to you…
I spent too long looking at early jet aircraft & then Merlin powered stuff…
Straightforward one now;
The most produced aircraft of WW1?
I’m guessing either Spad XIII or A.V.Roe’s little beauty… but, Avro 504 I think.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was the SPAD XIII, but the Strutter and the Camel were high on the list as well.
Avro 504 - 8970 units produced.
Centhot called it first though.
Camel only had 5490 units.
The Avro 504 it is.
This guy obviously can’t do it with chat up lines alone;
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OK, here’s mine. This aircraft took part in a reasonably well known movie, in which it crashed landed in the mountains (but the people could escape through the roof). The actual aircraft used then really did crash, in reality, around 21 years later, killing everyone on board. What was the aircraft registration number?
On 25 January 1993, a TABA Fairchild Hiller FH-227 registration PT-LCS operating a cargo flight from Belém-Val de Cães to Altamira crashed into the jungle near Altamira during night-time approach procedures. The crew of 3 died.
The first thing that came to mind was Flight 571, but was PT-LCS (522 / N7808H) used in the film, or was it HC-BUF (573 / N2784R)?
On a more important point, Alive (weather the film in question or not) was quite an impressive film, there is one part during the crash which is simply jaw-dropping - I’m sure you know the part I mean…
HC-BUF was w/o 28 October 1997 which seems to be a little outside the time frame of the question.
Concorde 1977 Movie
Registration Number F-BTSC crashed July 2000.
This aircraft was at the time of the filming, owned by the manufacturer, and had been scheduled for adaptation for Pan Am. In the end, after filming, it was adapted for another airline, who had been renting it off and on. Ironically, it was a rather special model, a ton heavier than it’s lightest sister aircraft in the fleet. Ironically, at the time of it’s demise, it was a ton over-weight. Everyone on board died, plus some people on the ground. It actual demise was also caught on film.
Tango Juliet has it! OK, it was Airport '79 (called Airport '80 for our British friends, as it was released later), but yes, that’s it.
Yay! I finally got one [Y]. Well, I’m at work and don’t have the time to really come up with a new question, so I leave it for anyone else to post one.
Try this one: What was the first type of aircraft specifically paid for by the British tax payer to be used for Royal Flight duties?
A quick guess, (courtesy of Google/Wikipedia) Westland Wapiti 1928?
Between 1928 and 1930 the Prince of Wales did fly in 24 Squadron Wapitis but these were not specifically purchased and paid for by the taxpayer as Royal aircraft.