ID please

Dingo wrote:
Thanks, "bob", and thanks to everybody. Trying to get a 100% ID on
those fuzzy blobs is, I reckon, nigh on impossible. Given the fact
the pix was taken at Corfe Castle would lend credence to bob's
suggestion they were Britten Norman Islanders, that location being
just along the coast from the BN base at Bembridge on the Isle of
Wight.

Again, thanks all.
~
Dingo



It would have been a special occasion then - for both prototypes to be
flying together at the same location.


Quoting from the omniscient Wikipedia ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten-Norman_Islander

"Design of the Islander started in 1963 and the first prototype BN-2 first
flew on 13 June 1965, with the second prototype on 20 August 1966. Both of
these had engines that were less powerful than the production versions. The
first production Islander first flew on 24 April 1967."


--

Cheers

Dave Kearton

American Intelligence would have passed it off as a Kill of an Iraqi
Airforce Fighter (Or perhaps an old Hawker Hunter gate guard) ;-)
"Dingo" wrote in message
...

Thanks, "bob", and thanks to everybody. Trying to get a 100% ID on those
fuzzy blobs is, I reckon, nigh on impossible. Given the fact the pix was
taken at Corfe Castle would lend credence to bob's suggestion they were
Britten Norman Islanders, that location being just along the coast from
the
BN base at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.

Again, thanks all.
~
Dingo





"bob" wrote in message news:tJxph.5542$V91.737@trndny05...
Britten Norman Islanders, perhaps??


"Dingo" wrote in message
...

A friend sent me this very poor image - any help in ID'ing the a/c
would
be
appreciated. The photo was taken at Corfe Castle, Dorset, UK in the
summer
of 1966.

My first thought was they were Blackburn Beverleys, but they had twin
tail
fins which these fuzzy blobs appear not to have. Current thought here
is
they *might* have been Meteors.

TIA
~
Dingo

American Intelligence would have passed it off as a Kill of an Iraqi
Airforce Fighter (Or perhaps an old Hawker Hunter gate guard) ;-)
"Dingo" wrote in message
...

Thanks, "bob", and thanks to everybody. Trying to get a 100% ID on those
fuzzy blobs is, I reckon, nigh on impossible. Given the fact the pix was
taken at Corfe Castle would lend credence to bob's suggestion they were
Britten Norman Islanders, that location being just along the coast from
the
BN base at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.

Again, thanks all.
~
Dingo





"bob" wrote in message news:tJxph.5542$V91.737@trndny05...
Britten Norman Islanders, perhaps??


"Dingo" wrote in message
...

A friend sent me this very poor image - any help in ID'ing the a/c
would
be
appreciated. The photo was taken at Corfe Castle, Dorset, UK in the
summer
of 1966.

My first thought was they were Blackburn Beverleys, but they had twin
tail
fins which these fuzzy blobs appear not to have. Current thought here
is
they *might* have been Meteors.

TIA
~
Dingo