Britist specification G.4/31 General-purpose/torpedo bomber

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Hi!
Blackburn B-7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-7

Picture source
https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%81:BlackburnB7.jpg

G.4/31 General-purpose/torpedo bomber – Wapiti & Gordon replacement – Wellesley one of two designs submitted by Vickers and itself a PV – see also G.22/35
Blackburn B-7, Bristol Type 120, Fairey G.4/31, Handley Page H.P.47, Hawker P.V.4, Parnall G.4/31, Vickers G.4/31, Vickers Wellesley, Westland PV-7
 

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Hi! Bristol type 118/120.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Type_118
"The Bristol Type 118 was a general-purpose military aircraft, a two-seat biplane built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the early 1930s, powered by a Bristol Mercury radial engine and aimed at overseas markets. The Type 120 was a Bristol Pegasus-engined variant entered into an Air Ministry competition and later used for armament tests. Two aircraft were built."

Russian site
http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft34425.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/bristol118.html
 

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Hi! Fairey G.4/31.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_G.4/31

Picture source
https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/ww2planes/ww2-fairey/42486/view/fairey_g-4-31/
http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft31606.htm
 

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Handley Page HP.47 is here.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,7776.0.html
 
Hawker P.V.4.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_P.V.4

Russian site
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww1/hawkerpv4.html
 

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Vickers type 253.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Type_253
"The Vickers Type 253 used a Pegasus IIM3 engine, enclosed by a drag-reducing Townend ring, to power a two-bay, unstaggered biplane, with a lower wing smaller in span and chord. Both wings were of constant chord, but the centre sections were mildly forward-swept and the lower centre section carried anhedral out to the inner interplane struts. Both sets of interplane struts leaned outwards, the outer ones more so. Both wings carried ailerons and the upper planes had leading edge slats. The wings joined the fuselage top and bottom with no gap, the pilot sitting just ahead of the leading edge in an open cockpit and the observer sitting well behind the trailing edge. A conventional tail carried balanced rudder and elevators. The split-axle fixed undercarriage was neatly mounted, the main legs fixed to the front spar under the inner interplane struts and braced rearwards to the wing roots."

Picture source
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww15/b/1863/9/0
http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/vickers_g4-31.php
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?89302-Photo-of-the-V-A-Type-253
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2041715-Vickers-253

What is the pad at upper wing root??
 

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blackkite said:
What is the pad at upper wing root??

Just an aerodynamic fillet.

I don't really understand why you are posting all of these well-known types (i.e. not 'secret projects') with links to simple generic sources like Wikipedia and Aviastar
 
I follow the rules of the Forum. And these aircraft are unknown for me same as some people.
If I am wrong, perhaps moderator will delete it immediately.
 
Maybe so, but the forum is titled 'Secret Projects - unbuilt projects, military and aerospace technology' not 'aircraft that are unknown to me'. If your source of data are sites like basic ones like Wikipedia it is probably not really something that needs posting here. It is the unusual and unbuilt aircraft that we really prefer to see.
 
I understand that to post prototype is no problem.
I believe that discussion is very important.
I believe wikipedia need update through discussion.
By posting in this forum, discussions may be made and new insights may be obtained as you see recently.
I think it would be better to do something than not do anything.
 
Its not a problem, its just that they have been described and seen so many times. They are in several books and magazines and all over the internet.

Try this
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,22995.msg250607.html#msg250607 post #4
 
Schneiderman said:
I don't really understand why you are posting all of these well-known types (i.e. not 'secret projects') with links to simple generic sources like Wikipedia and Aviastar

I agree with my dear Schneiderman,

you must send in this section the little known aircraft (for most of us) and Projects,and not
a famous airplanes ?.
 

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I see well known aircraft in various contributions in this board. ;D
 
No I enjoyed those contributions very much. ;)
 
Schneiderman said:
the forum is titled 'Secret Projects - unbuilt projects, military and aerospace technology' not 'aircraft that are unknown to me'. If your source of data are sites like basic ones like Wikipedia it is probably not really something that needs posting here. It is the unusual and unbuilt aircraft that we really prefer to see.

Hear, hear. I definitely support this. The characteristic differentiation of this forum is quality over quantity.
Low signal-to-noise and beginners' forums are already all over the net.
 
This forum is for every air enthusiast.
If you have such great information, please post it fast.
 
Well I come here to find (and pots) new information on rare aircraft, unknown projects and unusual designs. If I want to find out about well known types I go to Wikipedia and similar sites. I don't see any value in just duplicating Wikipedia on this site, where is the interest and value in that?
 
Well, there are many ways to enjoy this forum for each person. You can choice information as you like.
I think it's better not to "raise" the threshold too much.Discouraging a person's willingness.
A person does not see wikipedia without a chance.
It is more efficient to see information as unified as possible.
 
blackkite said:
This forum is for every air enthusiast.
Yes. As long as they abide by the forum's rules. Check them at https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,21728.0.html
Posting Topic Guidelines
. The primary purpose of the forum is to discuss unbuilt military and aerospace/military technology in various forms.
(...)
. The primary purpose of the "Secret Projects" sections of this forum is to document real, but unbuilt, projects.
Everyone is welcome, but everyone, please behave yourself. As simple as that.

Your posts and your enthusiasm are refreshing and very much welcome, when they stick with the purpose of this forum. I really mean this, and I'm sure others too.
But if you feel a need for re-posting already commonplace information that is available on wikipedia or such, then this is not the right place. Such posts only dilute and lower the quality of this forum. That is understandably less welcome.

Do not understand my remarks or Schneiderman's as "you're not welcome", because you are. We're only saying: please respect the purpose of this forum when posting here.
 
I think there are many purpose in this forum, not only primary purpose. Study, Research,Education, Question mentioned to wikipedia, Entertainment......
 
Yes. As long as they abide by the forum's rules. Check them at https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,21728.0.html

I did . . .
"The primary purpose of the "Secret Projects" sections of this forum is to document real, but unbuilt, projects. Prototypes that didn't enter series production may also be appropriate at the discretion of the moderators. Aircraft built in series production should generally be discussed in the "Aerospace" section, warships, tanks and other military vehicles in the Military section, etc."

Now, the title of this thread is " British specification G.4/31 General-purpose/torpedo bomber, and not " British specification G.4/31 General-purpose/torpedo bomber - just the unbuilt and undocumented projects", so in order to place everything in context, we need to have the 'well known' contenders here as well, and I feel that an image and a link is sufficient for this . . . if I want to know more I can start from here.
Plus, as Blackkite has stated, the 'well known' types are not well known to everyone . . .
Also as we know, sites like Wikipedia are not always accurate, and often can't be corrected. This forum should be a place for this information to be discussed, corrected, and posted, so that that this correct information is available online . . .
Just my two pence worth . . .


cheers,
Robin.
 
It's my understanding that no drawings of the Parnall G.4/31 aircraft are known to exist . . . would it be too much to hope for that Lottie has any in her collection . . . ?

cheers,
Robin.
 
But posting material here with Wikipedia as the primary source? Surely we should aim to do better than that otherwise all these threads would be nothing but a link.
 
I'm fairly well read on the interwar projects, yet seeing all the contenders pulled together I'm noticing stuff I hadn't seen before. The major competitors to these projects are well known, yet at the same time there are others that are less well known, so fully worthy of a place here, and placing them in context adds considerable information - were they more or less advanced than their competitors? Closer to the requirement, or less so? And so on. I think there's actually considerable value to a specification based thread in providing mutual context.

WRT Wikipedia, it's a useful aggregator of information. I could type in a summary of what the Putnam's volumes say on any of these aircraft and no one would blink, if I cut and paste someone else's summary of the same info from wiki, what's the difference?

And these aircraft may be reasonably well known to us, as followers of British interwar projects, but are they as well known to Blackkite, or other non-British contributors?

ETA: And for that matter the P.66 in Hesham's post is new to me. I presume that's the Boulton Paul submission?
 
Aggregation is fine but I still see little merit is simply citing Wiki, which is generally cut-and-paste Putnam anyway. The value of this site is that it aims to add new information, not just gives links to very obvious secondary sources. Things will decline very rapidly if we just become a summarised encylopedia of aircraft, we should aim for something better.
As an example, Hesham's endless searching through old magazines has located a large amount of unusual projects etc. that go a long way to putting the aircraft we know into a broader context, and that is surely the kind of thing we should champion. Its the unbuilt, unseen, unusual that lies at the heart of the forum.
 
DWG said:
I'm fairly well read on the interwar projects, yet seeing all the contenders pulled together I'm noticing stuff I hadn't seen before. The major competitors to these projects are well known, yet at the same time there are others that are less well known, so fully worthy of a place here, and placing them in context adds considerable information - were they more or less advanced than their competitors? Closer to the requirement, or less so? And so on. I think there's actually considerable value to a specification based thread in providing mutual context.

WRT Wikipedia, it's a useful aggregator of information. I could type in a summary of what the Putnam's volumes say on any of these aircraft and no one would blink, if I cut and paste someone else's summary of the same info from wiki, what's the difference?

And these aircraft may be reasonably well known to us, as followers of British interwar projects, but are they as well known to Blackkite, or other non-British contributors?

Couldn't have put it better myself . . .

ETA: And for that matter the P.66 in Hesham's post is new to me. I presume that's the Boulton Paul submission?

Yes, you are correct . . .


Schneiderman said:
. . . The value of this site is that it aims to add new information, not just gives links to very obvious secondary sources. Things will decline very rapidly if we just become a summarised encylopedia of aircraft, we should aim for something better.

Agreed, which is why in my previous post I said we should be correcting and enhancing the generally available information . . .

As an example, Hesham's endless searching through old magazines has located a large amount of unusual projects etc. that go a long way to putting the aircraft we know into a broader context,

And vice versa! If for example, we just make a post about the Boulton Paul P.66 in isolation, we have no context within which to evaluate the design. Post it here, in the 'G.4/31' thread, and that information is here, where it's useful. Another example, in your excellent Schneider Trophy book (I have a copy), you don't just write about the unbuilt projects, you also include the 'well known', which you have to, in order to tell the complete story. It's the same in this situation, I believe . . .

. . . and that is surely the kind of thing we should champion. Its the unbuilt, unseen, unusual that lies at the heart of the forum.

Again, agreed, however, if we abandon the broader view, we risk disappearing ever more deeply down an ever narrowing rabbit hole . . .


cheers,
Robin.
 
Hi! Westland P.V.7 and Parnall G.4/31 pictures.

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Braas/8319.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/parnallg431.html
http://all-aero.com/index.php/54-planes-p-q-e-r-s/7656-parnall-g431
 

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Hi! Armstrong-Whitworth A.W.19, private venture aircraft for G.4/31.

Picture source
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Hi! Vickers type 246, Vickers' private venture to G.4/31.
http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Arts/Art7112.htm
 

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robunos said:
DWG said:
I'm fairly well read on the interwar projects, yet seeing all the contenders pulled together I'm noticing stuff I hadn't seen before. The major competitors to these projects are well known, yet at the same time there are others that are less well known, so fully worthy of a place here, and placing them in context adds considerable information - were they more or less advanced than their competitors? Closer to the requirement, or less so? And so on. I think there's actually considerable value to a specification based thread in providing mutual context.

WRT Wikipedia, it's a useful aggregator of information. I could type in a summary of what the Putnam's volumes say on any of these aircraft and no one would blink, if I cut and paste someone else's summary of the same info from wiki, what's the difference?

And these aircraft may be reasonably well known to us, as followers of British interwar projects, but are they as well known to Blackkite, or other non-British contributors?

Couldn't have put it better myself . . .

ETA: And for that matter the P.66 in Hesham's post is new to me. I presume that's the Boulton Paul submission?

Yes, you are correct . . .


Schneiderman said:
. . . The value of this site is that it aims to add new information, not just gives links to very obvious secondary sources. Things will decline very rapidly if we just become a summarised encylopedia of aircraft, we should aim for something better.

Agreed, which is why in my previous post I said we should be correcting and enhancing the generally available information . . .

As an example, Hesham's endless searching through old magazines has located a large amount of unusual projects etc. that go a long way to putting the aircraft we know into a broader context,

And vice versa! If for example, we just make a post about the Boulton Paul P.66 in isolation, we have no context within which to evaluate the design. Post it here, in the 'G.4/31' thread, and that information is here, where it's useful. Another example, in your excellent Schneider Trophy book (I have a copy), you don't just write about the unbuilt projects, you also include the 'well known', which you have to, in order to tell the complete story. It's the same in this situation, I believe . . .

. . . and that is surely the kind of thing we should champion. Its the unbuilt, unseen, unusual that lies at the heart of the forum.

Again, agreed, however, if we abandon the broader view, we risk disappearing ever more deeply down an ever narrowing rabbit hole . . .


cheers,
Robin.

I agree. As far as Wikipedia goes, I have noticed that the aviation-related content seems to expand enormously every year. I am pretty well read on the subject and have a large library of my own. Yet I regularly find photos and references to valuable primary and secondary sources in Wikipedia articles. So I'm not inclined to look askance at citations that point me to it.

I would only add that I'd hate to see the discussion on this forum degenerate into the contentiousness and nitpicking that plagues so many other special-interest sites--most of which go dormant soon afterward. Rules are needed. But flexibility and tolerance make rules work.
 
Well I'm clearly outnumbered here but I would still urge anyone starting a new thread to at least try to include some form of new information and not just recycle easily-located material. As it say in the 'rules' - "Google is your friend" - for the basic stuff, as a Secret Projects forum we should aim to dig a little deeper.
 
In response to reply 22 I only have attached 3 view print from Air Pictorial magazine Sept 1963.
No others in my misc collection of prints.
Once I get decent digital copies will try to post as many as I can.
 

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Wow amazing drawing!! :eek: Thank you very much. :D
Especially vertical tail stabilizer/rudder shape is unique.
What is the device located front of the wind shield? Oil cooler?

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=29644.0;attach=589373;image
 
Lottie said:
In response to reply 22 I only have attached 3 view print from Air Pictorial magazine Sept 1963.
No others in my misc collection of prints.
Once I get decent digital copies will try to post as many as I can.

Amazing drawing,thank you Lottie.
 

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Lottie said:
In response to reply 22 I only have attached 3 view print from Air Pictorial magazine Sept 1963.

Many thanks, indeed . . . ;D
Another long hoped for drawing emerges into the light . . .


cheers,
Robin.
 

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