The What is it? Game

[buffnut453]

It's an American bird and I did take the photo.

 

[Graeme]

Brilliant work on the Guppy Mark and great photo Grant.

Mark - is your porthole from a twin-engined flying-boat that's still flying in the USA? Looks like morning/afternoon sun touching it - is it at an airport/field? Amphibian? Something the size of the Goose? Is that a hint of propeller far bottom right?

 

[buffnut453]

Mark - is your porthole from a twin-engined flying-boat that's still flying in the USA? Looks like morning/afternoon sun touching it - is it at an airport/field? Amphibian? Something the size of the Goose? Is that a hint of propeller far bottom right?

Sheesh...how many questions???

Mark - is your porthole from a twin-engined flying-boat that's still flying in the USA?

Yes, although the sole airworthy example may not currently be flying.

Looks like morning/afternoon sun touching it - is it at an airport/field?

No and no...well, kindda on the latter. It's in a museum at an airport/field.

Amphibian?

Yes.

Something the size of the Goose?

No...bigger than a Goose.

Is that a hint of propeller far bottom right?

And, finally...no.

 

[nuuumannn]

Sheesh...how many questions???

And you said it was gonna be easy...!

 

[buffnut453]

And you said it was gonna be easy...!

I thought it was pretty easy. There aren't that many American, twin-engined amphibians/flying boats from the 1930s-1940s that aren't a Catalina.

One last hint...the aircraft photographed is a Pearl Harbor veteran.

 

[nuuumannn]

That's what's hard about it; you either know or you don't! You've given us plenty of hints...

One last hint...the aircraft photographed is a Pearl Harbor veteran.

Sikorsky JRS-1; has to be.

 

[buffnut453]

That's what's hard about it; you either know or you don't! You've given us plenty of hints...



Sikorsky JRS-1; has to be.

Yup...that's the puppy.

 

[A4K]

Nice one, never heard of this aircraft!!!

 

[nuuumannn]

Yup. It was the Pearl Harbour reference that did it, despite all of your clues!

 

[Capt. Vick]

It's out of the restoration area? Or did you go down there?

 

[buffnut453]

It was out of the restoration area. I don't know if they have plans for a full restoration. Personally, I like seeing unrestored airframes because they have more visible history than some overly-clean, unblemished restoration job. Sadly, Joe Public doesn't see things the way I do...they just see an old, tatty aircraft and complain that the museum should do something about it.

 

[nuuumannn]

So, try this one. It's a similar theme to what was established in Mark's one.

Wot i

 

[wuzak]

B-17?

 

[Capt. Vick]

P-38?

 

[nuuumannn]

No and No.

 

[Airframes]

Starship Enterprise ?

 

[nuuumannn]

Starship Enterprise ?

More akin to a Klingon Bird of Brey, actually.

A hint, like the Sikorsky that Mark posted, it's the only one of its kind.

 

[A4K]

Oh good, a nice easy one.

 

[nuuumannn]

Oh good, a nice easy one.

Aww c'mon you guys! Where's your sense of adventure! Okay, a couple of hints, it's not American, so that rules out the P-38, B-17 etc. The photo is taken of the only survivor of its type, so its rare and exists in a museum (yes, I did do a walkaround of it, but it hasn't been published yet). It's of a similar vein to Mark's which means its of a nautical persuasion. It was born out of a niche wartime requirement.

 

[Graeme]

G'day Grant. Well, I don't wanna ask too many questions....so, the Saunders Roe SR.A/1 seems to fit your description above?
On the Wiki site I think I'm seeing that metal strip in that soft green light...