Q Planes
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.
Ten minutes later, another painting of a high wing four-engine aircraft (?)
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...
... and later with E131 (but registration on starboard extrados erased).
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.
de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth
Reg. G-AEZC, c/n 3624 de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth. Requisitioned as BD152.
Reg. G-AESA, de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth c/n 3544 and later BD161 once on duty with the R.A.F.
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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