Anyone know what it is???

[DispatchDragon]

Found this while trolling for information on another project

a box of Milky Bars for the first person to correctly identify it

A Hint - it was built by a very famous British company




Good Luck

Leif

[Bridon Bear]

Is it an Auster?......rather odd looking arrangement, I know the rudder looks familiar but the engine looks rather different being a broad cowling suggests that it is not the normal inline type.

Hang on....can't find any referrence to it here but I know they toyed with the idea of a tourer but never went seriously into it.....pre 1960's era....could it be the Atlantic?

If I am right, I don't like white chocolate......

Regards.

BrianG

[DispatchDragon]

Brian

I figured either you or Auster or Marty would get it

It is indeed the only and only Auster Atlantic - I think its a 180horse Contiental in it -- It sort of looks like the off spring of an Auster and a Tripacer,
When I first saw it I thought it was that German thing that appeared briefly in the early 60s - cant remember its name but it was built I believe
by a sailplane company



It seems so long since we had a "whatisit" competition I thought I'd start the ball rolling (something to do while Flynet is down)


Leif

[Bridon Bear]

This is the one you were thinking of...Putzer Elster B



Please donate my crate of 'Milky Bars' to a good cause for me.... ;-)

Regards.

Bridon Bear

[Garry Russell]

Hi Brian

Is that taken at Cranfield?

ATB

A Good Cause.

[Bridon Bear]

No idea Garry....saw it on G-INFO....I have seen one for real once, it was light Green and Cream.....made me think a bit as to what it actually was at the time too...... :roll:

Regards.

Bridon Bear

[DispatchDragon]

Thats what I was thinking about Brian

There is sort of a resemblance - however I'd like to think of the Atlantic as the Airedales dad

Also found a shot of the Atlantics panel - it looked fairly advanced compared to Austers of the time


Leif

[auster]

I am no expert on Austers but in ‘Rearsby Recalled’ by Les Leetham there is a reference to the Atlantic and its proposed luxury successor, the Windsor. It was the first nose wheel aircraft that Austers designed following on from Tripacer trials two years before. Taxying trials were unsatisfactory, so much so that Les decided that he would not fly it. He had done taxi trials and thought that it ‘didn’t feel right’. He felt that with even a neutral CG loading, there was too much weight on the nose wheel.

He was right to refuse fly it because later the nose wheel collapsed after crossing the farm track which cut across Rearsby Airfield and its flight trials were abandoned, so it never flew.

Ralph

[DispatchDragon]

Cheers Ralph

Seems a shame - had they done their sums correctly - the "Airedale" may have flown much earlier and
been a success (Of much of a success as an all fabric 4 seat competeing against the 172 could have been)
yet another story of what might have been .


Leif