On 22/06/2014 15:33, Ramsman wrote:
> On 22/06/2014 15:29, Ramsman wrote:
>>> On 22/06/2014 14:08, Joseph Testagrose wrote:
>>>
>>> Presumably this was original twin engined design, specification P.13/36,
>>> which would account for the single central fin. I'm unable to discover
>>> whether this actually flew.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> LOL!
>>
>> Sorry to be pedantic but it's actually PN323 set up as a rig H-P used at
>> Radlett for aviaonics testing. It sat on the airfield and was easily
>> visible from the railway line from St. Pancras. Its nose was later at
>> IWM Lambeth, and is currently at Duxford while Lambeth is being
>> refurbished.
>>
>> https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/parkstreetparrot/6991226795/
>>
>
> Oops! I looked at this photo before I saw Joseph's other picture of PN323.
>
Thanks for the information Peter. If my maternal grandmother was still
alive I'd have asked her - she was Handley Page's first female aircraft
inspector at Cricklewood during the war.
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