The What is it? Game

[windhund116]

AKA: "Gießkanne." Watering Can.

 

[GrauGeist]

If I may try something a little different.
It is a photo I took in 1983.
The plane is obvious. Can you tell me what model it is?
View attachment 649690

Another hint:
In the year the photo was taken, there was only one of that model surviving.

Did we ever figure out what this is?

 

[wuzak]

If I may try something a little different.
It is a photo I took in 1983.
The plane is obvious. Can you tell me what model it is?
View attachment 649690

Another hint:
In the year the photo was taken, there was only one of that model surviving.

Is it W4050?

 

[Simon Thomas]

Not W4050.

Edit: The aeroplane was complete and not a mix of parts with different serials.

 

[Simon Thomas]

Complete may be a bit of an overstatement. It was missing the seats and radios.
It was not restored in 1983.
It is undergoing restoration now.

 

[Crimea_River]

Well it ain't the one I'm working on (RS700). Get a list of other Mossies being restored now and the answer will be there

 

[wuzak]

Was it a Mosquito B.XX?

Serial number KB336?

 

[SaparotRob]

I was thinking it was a Mosquito. I don't chime in on these things (ignorance) but, between reading another thread AND the various posts and links, I looked at the pic and thought that was a Mosquito. I was looking at the inside of a tube. I didn't realize how much I learned here.
I hate learning.

 

[Crimea_River]

I'm thinking Wuzak is right though I'm not aware it's being restored again. I saw it in 2019 and it was not being touched.

 

[windhund116]

 

[special ed]

At my age, I could use one of those.

 

[windhund116]

At my age, I could use one of those.

Notice vacuum tube driven electronics. Jam-proof.

 

[GrauGeist]

All transmit/receive and audio amplifier equipment used vacuum tubes during the war.

 

[Simon Thomas]

Not a B XX
Extract from "Mosquito Portfolia" Stuart Howe, published in 1984.
I have removed the models for which there is more than one surviving and added the final column.

Mark No	Serial	Country	Location	Remarks (1984)	Status 2021
Prototype	W4050	GB	London, Colney, Herts	Ex-E0234, now displayed yellow overall	On Display
NFII	HJ711	GB	York	Rebuild using parts from PF498/VA878	On Display
PRIX	LR480	South Africa	Johannesburg	Displayed	On Display
PRXVI	NS631	Australia	Mildura, Victoria	Stored, unconfirmed report that it has been moved	Under restoration
BXX	KB336	Canada	Rockcliffe. Ontario	Displayed	On Display
FB26	KA114	Canada	Richmond, BC	Stored, in poor condition	Airworthy
NF30	RK952	Belgium	Brussels	Displayed in War Museum	On Display
PR41	A52-210	Australia	Lidcombe, Sydney	Rebuilding, ex-VH-WAD	On Display
FB40	A52-19	New Zealand	Ardmore, Auckland	Rebuilding, ex-NZ2305, converted T43	On Display

 

[windhund116]

All transmit/receive and audio amplifier equipment used vacuum tubes during the war.

Think this device (whatever it is) is from a post-WW2 USAF jet. BTW... US used tubes up until the mid-1980s, partly for that anti-jamming reason. I know, I have a lot of tubes in my inventory. For guitar and audio amps.

Russians and Chinese continue to use tubes in some of their avionics.

 

[Airframes]

Anti-jamming?
Regardless of tubes (valves) or transistors, it's the transmission that's jammed, not the transmitting power source.

 

[windhund116]

Anti-jamming?
Regardless of tubes (valves) or transistors, it's the transmission that's jammed, not the transmitting power source.

Not anti-jamming per se, but resistant to jamming.

Resistant to jamming.

 

[windhund116]

Man sitting behind object is the Observer, not the Pilot.

 

[wuzak]

Not a B XX
Extract from "Mosquito Portfolia" Stuart Howe, published in 1984.
I have removed the models for which there is more than one surviving and added the final column.

Mark No	Serial	Country	Location	Remarks (1984)	Status 2021
Prototype	W4050	GB	London, Colney, Herts	Ex-E0234, now displayed yellow overall	On Display
NFII	HJ711	GB	York	Rebuild using parts from PF498/VA878	On Display
PRIX	LR480	South Africa	Johannesburg	Displayed	On Display
PRXVI	NS631	Australia	Mildura, Victoria	Stored, unconfirmed report that it has been moved	Under restoration
BXX	KB336	Canada	Rockcliffe. Ontario	Displayed	On Display
FB26	KA114	Canada	Richmond, BC	Stored, in poor condition	Airworthy
NF30	RK952	Belgium	Brussels	Displayed in War Museum	On Display
PR41	A52-210	Australia	Lidcombe, Sydney	Rebuilding, ex-VH-WAD	On Display
FB40	A52-19	New Zealand	Ardmore, Auckland	Rebuilding, ex-NZ2305, converted T43	On Display

FB26?

 

[Simon Thomas]

Wuzak - I am going to give it to you for sheer determination.
It was a PR XVI. NS631 / A52-600
This one. The photo was taken in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia around October 1983.
A few years later it was "swapped" for a C-47 and a few P-51 wings. The swapping was done by one of the three owners without the consent of the other two owners.