Q Planes

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Q Planes DVD cover.

Movie (1939)
U.S.A. title: Clouds Over Europe
French title : Armes secrètes

Starring:
Laurence Olivier (Tony McVane)
Ralph Richardson (Maj. Charles Hammond)
Valerie Hobson (Kay Lawrence)
George Curzon (Jenkins)
George Merritt (Mr. Barrett)
Gus McNaughton (Blenkinsop, Hammond's Butler)

Lighthearted romp of a pre-war spy story: quirky British secret service man finds out who's using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.


Unidentified Aircraft

At the mess, two paintings of some unidentified aircraft.
A sport/record plane or an experimental one ? Shape makes think to the Fairey Long-range Monoplane but instead the inline engine, this aircraft seems fitted with a single radial powerplant.

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Ten minutes later, another painting of a high wing four-engine aircraft (?)

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Airspeed AS.6A Envoy I

Registration G-ADBA, c/n 33 Airspeed AS.6A Envoy I of North Eastern Airways. Sold to the R.A.F. in February 1939, receiving the serial P5778.
First seen with codex E97...

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... and later with E131 (but registration on starboard extrados erased).

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Read the discussion tab for a more complete analysis.

De Havilland DH89A Dragon Rapide

Registration G-AENN, c/n 6340. Serial W6455 once under the RAF roundel (February 1940); crash landed at Fraserburgh (Scotland) in 1943.

Reg. G-AENN De Havilland DH89A Dragon Rapide of Olley Air Service Ltd.

de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth

Reg. G-AEZC, c/n 3624 de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth. Requisitioned as BD152.

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Reg. G-AESA, de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth c/n 3544 and later BD161 once on duty with the R.A.F.

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Reg. G-ABTB c/n 3101 de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth became BD153 for the R.A.F. on August 1940.

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