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sorry for the delay this should be an easy one for you.

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Alan,

Google didn't do me any good this time. However, I consulted with a knowledgeable colleague and he put us on the right track.

Westland WG30. Is it at W-S-M by any chance?

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Well done Martin spot on, I thought the colours might confuse people as the a/c was painted for a tv series.

As you quite rightly spotted, it's the Westland WG30 at Weston-super-mare helicopter museum.

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Martin, anyone. Is anyone going to put up a new ID pic?

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Greg,

Yep, it's my shout. Give me couple of days to research something suitably obscure.

I didn't get excited about it, coz noone was hassling me . . .

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Time to revive this saga of "I know that, but...."

Bumped into this obscurity in recent charity shop find:

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It has to be THE most unlikely creature of wood and fabric to take to the air. So, what is it, and why should CC.SIG be grateful to it...?

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I know what but not sure I know why ...
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That's the Pemberton-Billing Quaduplane of 1917-ish. P-B later changed the name of the company to Supermarine and built flying boats, amongst other things...
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Yes, and I think the importance to the CC SIG is it's long range/duration flight capability, it was a zeppelin patrol/fighter - although it might also be that it never went into production and thus there never was a model of it that we might have to include on our display .... :lol:
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Unless you wish to scratchbuild one, John.... ;-)
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OK... I'll put you out of your misery! The PB.31 was the first aircraft to carry a searchlight aloft to illuminate its prey sliding through the grey gloom before targetting it. OK, it was a Zeppelin the PB.31 was after, not a U-boat (and the _Zeppelin_ could out-run the Heath-Robisnon hunter-killer), but it's the ancestor of the Leigh light...

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Let's resurrect this thread...

What's going on here?

[Edit: a creative way of asking what the aircraft is]
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Pilot lost the ignition key again?

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It looks Duxford-ish...but a very small plane (or a very tall pilot!)
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Priming the engine by turning it over before a full start?
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