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Yeah, it does look like a COW, I've only seen such a gun on a couple of prototype fighters, but might it have been fitted to a Handley Page Hyderabad? Or a Vickers Virginia?
 
If it is the COW gun it seems the aircraft could be a Westland Westbury from 1926



But they seem to have tried one fitted to the Bristol Bagshot as well, but from what I read it didnt fly too well, serious structual problems. So it has to be the Westland Westbury


 
briyeo said:
So it has to be the Westland Westbury
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Very nice briyeo! Yep, the Westbury, scanned from an article (Aeroplane-August 1993) by Tony Williams on "Heavy Guns of the RAF". The caption describes the illustrations as an "artists' impressions", however my understanding is the Westbury was fitted with and fired the COW gun.

 
Miles Sparrowjet Graeme?

This one is a bit different. If you like it I will do some more. This plane was built and flown, but by the time it was this picture was very much out of date, what was it called (and yes, it flew under the same name and designation)

 
Yes, you've got it it. this was the first picture of the Hughes Hercules, published in 1944. How would you feel about some more 'what did I become' type images. any good?
 
Waynos said:
How would you feel about some more 'what did I become' type images. any good?
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Sounds fine to me Wayne. What I was trying to get at above was that if the original artists impression differs greatly from the completed design, this could be very difficult. I was starting to wonder if your image could have been an early design for the Saunders-Roe Princess, that changed with design improvements. Since the engine number didn't change, Hughes' monster remains a prime candidate. (Does that make any sense?).

Sorry, but this is all I could up with at the moment. The completed aircraft didn't look very different...

 
Well, it reminds me very much of the Breguet STOL transport 941 with the tail of the 940, which would explain the design evolution?

On the H-4, or HK-1, the number of engines is probably the only thing that stayed the same.
 
Waynos said:
Well, it reminds me very much of the Breguet STOL transport 941 with the tail of the 940, which would explain the design evolution?
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Too easy for you Wayne! Yeah, it was the original design for the Breguet 941 but it looked somewhat different to the completed version. The design staff at Breguet must have been very busy in the early sixties...



Very late here, too late to look for another "what did I become" attempt, so I'll toss this into the ring instead...

 
Airframes said:
Just a quick stab... Blackburn Roc?
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Nice stab Terry! Missed vital organs but you certainly were thinking along the lines that I had intended. I was hoping that it looked like a Blackburn product and in fact I was originally going to post this image, but it kinda looked too obvious with the roundels, undercarriage layout and general outline...



...and being a sick bastard, I love "belly" shots and thought I found something similar that would fool the masses, but then along comes Wayne...

Waynos said:
I think it looks like a Wirraway, or at least related to it?
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Did you spot the Koala in the Eucalypt tree in the background?

To finish it off all you need to do is google "Goddess of Agriculture."
 
Happy New Year for all

The australians, If I remember well, did a convertion from a Wirraway to a CROP DUSTER this was the CAC CA28 Ceres, isnt it?
 

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