The What is it? Game (1 Viewer)

• Jan 16, 2019

• #9,161

Aaron Brooks Wolters

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The Apache A-36?

 

• Jan 16, 2019

• #9,162

nuuumannn

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Quite right, Graeme. Good spotting. The Saunders Roe SR.A/1 jet powered flying boat fighter.

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More here: Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 - Wikipedia

 

• Jan 16, 2019

• #9,163

gumbyk

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nuuumannn said:

Quite right, Graeme. Good spotting. The Saunders Roe SR.A/1 jet powered flying boat.

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More here: Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 - Wikipedia

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Good God Man!!!
That monstrosity is uuuuugly!!!

 

• Jan 16, 2019

• #9,164

nuuumannn

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Nelson

It's big too, yet they still managed to give the pilot the smallest cockpit canopy possible!

 

• Jan 17, 2019

• #9,165

buffnut453

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For a floatplane fighter, it actually looks pretty decent. You just have to pick the angle (and take off the beaching wheels).

 

• Jan 17, 2019

• #9,166

Capt. Vick

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Well done sir! Very well done!

 

• Jan 17, 2019

• #9,167

vikingBerserker

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Nice!

 

• Jan 18, 2019

• #9,168

Graeme

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Cheers!

Coming to a Forum near you - this summer....
Harry Potter and the Mysterious Airframe.

 

• Jan 18, 2019

• #9,169

buffnut453

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Short Sunderland?

 

• Jan 18, 2019

• #9,170

J

Jager52

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And its modern offspring.

nuuumannn said:

Quite right, Graeme. Good spotting. The Saunders Roe SR.A/1 jet powered flying boat fighter.

View attachment 5259980207 Solent Sky SRA.1

More here: Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 - Wikipedia

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• Jan 18, 2019

• #9,171

Graeme

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buffnut453 said:

Short Sunderland?

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Not the Sunderland Mark. This is much bigger...

 

• Jan 18, 2019

• #9,172

buffnut453

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Spruce Goose then?

 

• Jan 18, 2019

• #9,173

Airframes

Benevolens Magister

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Short Shetland ?

 

• Jan 18, 2019

• #9,174

Graeme

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buffnut453 said:

Spruce Goose then?

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Too big now. No water involved.

Not the Shetland Terry.

 

• Jan 19, 2019

• #9,175

Airframes

Benevolens Magister

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Brabazon ?

 

• Jan 19, 2019

• #9,176

Graeme

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Not the Brabazon mate.
A little more of the photo...

 

• Jan 19, 2019

• #9,177

Airframes

Benevolens Magister

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Titanic 2, the flying version !!

 

• Jan 19, 2019

• #9,178

GrauGeist

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That Kalinin abortion, perhaps?

 

• Jan 19, 2019

• #9,179

Graeme

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Sorry Dave, it's not a Ruskie.

 

• Jan 19, 2019

• #9,180

Graeme

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I sense we're approaching stalling speed with this one, so a couple of big clues. Harry Potter was photographed crawling through the starboard wing in September 1949.
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