The What is it? Game (28 Viewers)

[Airframes]

Good tries, but sorry chaps, neither of those. Slightly smaller, but a mountainous reputation to maintain ..................

 

[Robert Porter]

Ju-52.

 

[tyrodtom]

Fieseler Fi-156

 

[Capt. Vick]

Hahaha. It looks like a trailer hitch ball Terry!

 

[Airframes]

Tyrod has it. The Fiesler 'Storch' from Old Warden, seen at Little Gransden in 2014.

Hmm. The 'Upload Image' system isn't working - seems the 'system' has gone from bad to non-existent !!

EDIT: Now that things seem to be working properly, here's the pic.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

You have gotten way to SNEAKY and DEVIOUS whilst I've been away sir.

 

[Airframes]

Who, me ?
Never - well, maybe a mini touchette ...............

 

[Geedee]

Bump

 

[Airframes]

It's a .............. er, hang on ................. ah, erm .....................

 

[Geedee]

It's a .............. er, hang on ................. ah, erm .....................

It's on the ground and that's the angle it sits at

 

[GrauGeist]

I know, I know!

It's the portal where the speed of dark begins!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Meteor?

 

[Capt. Vick]

Valtur?

 

[Graeme]

A motor-less nacelle?

 

[Geedee]

Its not a jet, Graeme is on the right track. There used to be an engine behind those fairings

 

[Capt. Vick]

Caribou?

 

[YGBSM]

The Caribou sure does look like a match.

 

[Airframes]

My first thought was one of the Convair (maybe 580) prop airliners, but I'm not sure.

 

[Geedee]

It be one of these. Just outside the hangar door at NAS Wildwood.
Just around the corner, there's a whole heap of 'em. Chap was going to look into doing things with including updating to jet propulsion...but nothing ever happened.
The video clip was taken from the flight deck of 909 as we taxied in after a flight.

 

[wuzak]

De Havilland DHC-4A Caribou (N95NC) by Daniel Berek, on Flickr