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The Percival Gull.

Photography Aviation posted on Jan 19, 2017
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This Percival Gull monoplane is one of a few surviving examples of Australian engineer Edgar Wikner Percival’s most successful aircraft designs. Percival was fascinated by flight from a young age, and studied engineering in Sydney. He served with the British Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and returned to Australia after the war to start a flight charter company. He was also busy working on his own aircraft designs, and moved to England to co-found the Percival Aircraft Company. In 1932, the company began manufacturing the Gull, a three-seater, low-wing monoplane, in a number of variations. Gulls had aerodynamic light wooden frames covered with doped, or lacquered, fabric. Coupled with a selection of powerful four- or six-cylinder engines, they were faster than many air force fighters. The aircraft above was made in 1936 at Gravesend in Kent, England. A Swiss woman, Ariane Dufaux, bought the plane and took it to Switzerland, under the registration HB-OFU, for her private use. Forty years later, the aircraft was sold to a collector in England, where it was restored and became popular on the air show circuit.

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blinkings

10:42PM | Thu, 19 January 2017

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kgb224

8:08AM | Fri, 20 January 2017

Superb capture my friend. God bless.

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Buffalo1

8:28AM | Fri, 20 January 2017

Thanks! I'm not familiar with this type, but it is certainly a spiffy little 1930s sport plane. A bit of research and one sees that it is the older brother of the more famous Percival Proctor of WWII.

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Faemike55

6:00PM | Fri, 20 January 2017

This is a wonderful plane and great history

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DukeNukem2005

11:45AM | Sat, 21 January 2017

Very good! Fantastic!

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Richardphotos

12:20PM | Sat, 21 January 2017

very beautiful plane and capture

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sossy

3:50AM | Wed, 25 January 2017

This plane has seen a lot of countries ☺


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