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Pint of Stowford for the first to identify this famous aircraft!

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Is it on a roundabout between the A5 & the M1 near Magna Park? If so,I`ve never known what sort it is.
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Hi Bikemad, yep, it's the roundabout a few hundred yards from J20 of the M1 as you go into Lutterworth.

Frank Whittle had an office in Lutterworth, hence the statue of the plane.

Stowford still on offer!
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Gloster Ace..? :dontknow:
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It is a Gloster.
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Gloster E28/39 - first flew at the RAF College Cranwell, about 3 miles from where we live now. :)
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Yep. Pint of Stowford for that man if I ever get along to a meet sometime.
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