Beautiful, well documented and charming videos you’re making here. You and Rex’s Hangar are by far the best vintage aviation content creators on the internet. Thanks a lot!
Thank you, I found this plane and company very interesting. In the 1960s, I attended Portsmouth Grammar School. We visited Portsmouth Aviation on a school trip. At the time, they were building the fins for (I think) 500lbs bombs. I also sailed at The Tudor Sailing Club, sited at the eastern end of Port Creek just across the dual carriageway from the airport. It was therefore very personal when two Avro 748s skidded on wet grass and crashed into the boundary fence, thus bringing about the demise of the airport.
Thanks for this production. There’s an advert for this aircraft in the 1948 edition of’Flight Handbook.’ Portsmouth airport closed to commercial traffic after experiencing three non-fatal but embarrassing accidents in one day. I recall flying from it during the early 70s in a Twin Pioneer on an air experience (sight seeing) flight. It’s now, of course, mainly a housing estate.
1:13 nice shot of a smart looking plane. A nice blend of familiar styles like DH. Dragon, Miles Gemini, with the "Cocky" stance of a P-38. Good thing about the inverted 4 deep cowlings was that the prop arc didn't go much below the bottom of the cowl, a good natural deterent for both prop strikes and inadvertently walking into the prop.
Just WOW. What a great little aircraft. A shame it didn't get the recognition or flight time it deserved. It would make a great military observation plane and transporting the top brass. As a writer, this is the near perfect aircraft and using it as the replacement for the Westland Lysander. The story will be set in the late 1940's and early 1950s.
An innovative, forward thinking aircraft. The retroscope tells us that tying its future to a then unstable India proved its undoing and that's a great pity for a design with so much potential. PS - Am I alone in getting Westland Scout/Wasp vibes from that cab design?
This is another fascinating unknown type that would make a great 1/72 scale modelling subject.
Beautiful, well documented and charming videos you’re making here.
You and Rex’s Hangar are by far the best vintage aviation content creators on the internet.
Thanks a lot!
I'm glad you are enjoying them. Thanks very much.
Obviously an inspiration behind the Edgely Optica!
Maybe?
The creativity of British aviation is truly impressive.
I agree 👍
Thank you, I found this plane and company very interesting.
In the 1960s, I attended Portsmouth Grammar School. We visited Portsmouth Aviation on a school trip. At the time, they were building the fins for (I think) 500lbs bombs.
I also sailed at The Tudor Sailing Club, sited at the eastern end of Port Creek just across the dual carriageway from the airport. It was therefore very personal when two Avro 748s skidded on wet grass and crashed into the boundary fence, thus bringing about the demise of the airport.
Thanks. The two 748s crashing was unfortunate.
Interesting little aircraft!
Thanks for this production. There’s an advert for this aircraft in the 1948 edition of’Flight Handbook.’ Portsmouth airport closed to commercial traffic after experiencing three non-fatal but embarrassing accidents in one day. I recall flying from it during the early 70s in a Twin Pioneer on an air experience (sight seeing) flight. It’s now, of course, mainly a housing estate.
Thanks. It's a shame it shut.
Interesting story. Thank you.
Thanks
1:13 nice shot of a smart looking plane. A nice blend of familiar styles like DH. Dragon, Miles Gemini, with the "Cocky" stance of a P-38. Good thing about the inverted 4 deep cowlings was that the prop arc didn't go much below the bottom of the cowl, a good natural deterent for both prop strikes and inadvertently walking into the prop.
Very informative! Thank you!
Thanks
Handsome craft, never heard of it before. You are a fine researcher!
I agree it was a looker. Thanks. Appreciated.
Looks like a baby Boxcar
Another good one.. Merry Christmas.
Thanks & Merry Christmas
A very cool concept with a lot of potential.
Indeed!
Just WOW. What a great little aircraft. A shame it didn't get the recognition or flight time it deserved. It would make a great military observation plane and transporting the top brass. As a writer, this is the near perfect aircraft and using it as the replacement for the Westland Lysander. The story will be set in the late 1940's and early 1950s.
Another well executed review. Keep with it!
Thanks
Another outstanding video. Thanks for making it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Many thanks & Merry Christmas!
Nice video. Would love to see another on the Reid & Sigrist Snargasher, a lovely looking twin in my opinion.
Thanks. Um...l may do one on it?
Excellent video thanks for posting .
@@Joewho99 Thank you!
Days of Futures Past.
good video
Thank you
An innovative, forward thinking aircraft. The retroscope tells us that tying its future to a then unstable India proved its undoing and that's a great pity for a design with so much potential.
PS - Am I alone in getting Westland Scout/Wasp vibes from that cab design?
It is odd how many 'mini-airliner' twins were created which got nowhere in sales until somehow BN Islander got something right!
Nice
Like so many of the era it may have flown, but might as well have died on the drawing board.
@gordon-n6s Well yes, in some ways. Ok, it never went into production, but lessons learnt & copied. It helped move the development of aviation along.
0:35 that looks 2-2-1 not 2-3-1
Info conflicted with image and was not sure of the facts
What a sad tale of lost possibility's. 🤥
no twin aircraft in the 150-160 hp range ever succeeded
WRONG…. twin Comanche…. Apache….
@@michaelsteiger8509You beat to posting this fact. Two others I can think of Grumman Cougar and Beech Dutches. Only real role are as trainers.
There's that Italian light twin now with two 100 hp rotaxes, Tecnam P2006T
Champion lancer. And the Diamond DA42 trainer has 2 168hp engines, but spends probably half it's life flying around on one