Springwatch in East Anglia

[jonny7]

With the machines depicted here, Beaver, Otter & Dragonfly it might fool some in to thinking, with their names that they were of a different nature...

84 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

86 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

88 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

83 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

87 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

85 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

[Big Eric]

Lovely shots, I always thought that the flaps on a Beaver would be much bigger though.

[jonny7]

Lovely shots, I always thought that the flaps on a Beaver would be much bigger though.

Thanks for the nice comment "Big Eric", and the risk of exploiting some "Double Entendre" innuendo about the flap size on a Beaver .I can only think that you might
have been confused and were thinking about the Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC1,this had pretty big flaps and was a single engine aircraft .Just a thought!

[wv383]

Lovely shots, I always thought that the flaps on a Beaver would be much bigger though.

The thing with this particular Beaver is that it wasn't originally intended to be a display aircraft as it was restored by ARCO at Duxford as a transport for their engineers. It has a completely different engine to the standard aircraft, with a very modern prop. The inside is far from its military standard and is to a virtually executive standard with a 'glass' cockpit and fully modern instrument fit. It was almost a full nuts & bolts rebuild so whether the flaps etc are actually original I have no idea!

[psquiddy]

Nice Beaver!