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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Oddly, I have this one archived as a "Short S-4" (lifted from a long gone Turkish aircraft site), yet can't find any other reference to it.

Not sure where to go on this one.
 
Your Turkish chums have it a wee bit mixed up - right country, but it's not a Short.

It had a much more famous younger brother.........

...and it must be in one of your Putnams !
 
There were a whole bunch of similar design bits out there but something struck a chord. Only took a couple of burned-out eyeballs to find the

R.A.F. S.E. 4

Weird main gear on the beast too.

I'll have a new one a bit later after I find the eyedrops :icon_lol:
 
You got it, Rob, S.E.4 she is. :guinness: Moses' photo shows the original inverted-vee gear with the wheels at each end of a leaf spring - this, unsurprisingly, was soon substituted by the more normal arrangement in my pic.

When you resurface, old boy (I do hope you are pacing yourself ?) we look forward to a new horror........
 
Looks to be a Beardmore W.B.2.

Edit: Might be away for a bit and feeling pretty sure about the Beardmore. Moving along with another 4-blader. Please press on if ya know it.
 
Boulton and Paul P.9

Still smarting at not getting a rare chance at a Scottish aeroplane (the Beardmore) !

Here's something completely different -
 
Hi Mike,
the Saunders Aircraft Corporation (Canada) ST-27/28 modification of the DH Heron. Could your photo depict the only ST-28 with the larger cockpit windows (and reportedly the only new built airframe)?. Although..... are the props 4-blade (ST-28) or 3-blade (ST-27)
 
It's the only prototype ST-28 - C-FYBM-X - and those look very much like three-blade props to me, Walter, although production models were to have 4-bladers as you say.

Here's another pic.
 
I really MUST get on with scanning all my old slides... the ST-27 was part of my late teens and I have pics dating back to the arrival of the first pre-conversion airframe. Nice to see one I wouldn't have to research to identify :icon_lol:
 
Mike, thanks for the nice pictures of the ST-28. The bigger cockpit windows are evident.
For the new one, photos possibly do not exist or are somewhere in a safe.
This PoC/Technology demonstrator is said to have flown in 1986 (my guess is 13 August 1986). There is quite some info on the net, but NO PHOTOS :censored:
 
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