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Some very rare photos

Posted: 02 Jan 2013, 23:43
by TSR2
Hi Chaps, been hunting around Flickr to try and find some photos of Sydenham in the late 70s early 80s and came across these pre and post WW2 shots, some very rare pictures indeed!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/ ... otostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/ ... /lightbox/
Can anyone identify the aircraft at the right of the picture?

Re: Some very rare photos

Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 00:25
by DaveB
It depends which right you mean mate :lol:

The aircraft on the right(with others to it's left) looks like a Blackburn Firebrand. The one on the other right (with aircraft on it's left) looks like a Short Sturgeon :)

ATB
DaveB B)smk

Re: Some very rare photos

Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 00:48
by TSR2
It was the one with what looked to be the contra rotating props :thumbsup:

Re: Some very rare photos

Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 01:40
by DaveB
Thought so :lol: I do believe that's a Sturgeon. Odd looking beastie isn't it. Type Short Sturgeon into Google and check out the pictures in their gallery. It came in an assortment of shapes.. none of them very pretty unfortunately :lol:

ATB
DaveB B)smk

Re: Some very rare photos

Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 07:18
by Garry Russell
The top pic is a Bombay on the right

http://www.wwiivehicles.com/unitedkingd ... bombay.asp

Re: Some very rare photos

Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 09:07
by TSR2
Nice one Garry :thumbsup:

There are a few oddballs in there. :)

It sure did come in a variety of awful guises. All though the standard one looked ok, everything else was, well, ugly. :lol:

Re: Some very rare photos

Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 09:08
by NigelC
My money's on the Tiger!

Re: Some very rare photos

Posted: 04 Jan 2013, 16:15
by 511Flyer
Try this link to identify older types. I didn't realise that there were so many.

http://www.aviastar.org/index2.html

D.