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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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Strange. One can search there against the year, purpose and key word but not against the manufacturer.
Edit: I'm wrong - one can select from the year and purpose lists and enter a key word, but then clicking on 'ok' seems consistently to produce a nil result!
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a mutt is a mixture of two breeds which this one is. Clodomiro Figueroa out of chile made this mixture of Bristol M.1C fuselage and a wing from a Ansaldo SVA aircraft.
Around 1928. Flew once at El Bosque but scared the pilot so much. The wing was flapping on the flight.
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Around 1928. Flew once at El Bosque but scared the pilot so much. The wing was flapping on the flight.
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Bit more on this ! It was originally the Nanok (polar bear) as the three-engined Southampton was called, destined for the Danish Government. They weren't entirely happy with the machine and cancelled the order. Fortunately, Arthur T Guinness (of brewing fame) was in need of a flying yacht and so it became Solent G-AAAB. Ultimately scrapped in 1931.
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Arthur was better known as Ernest Guinness, who subsequently commissioned Supermarine Air Yacht G-AASE. However he was not happy with the result of his order and refused to take delivery. Instead it was sold to a wealthy American, Mrs June James. After a forced landing near Cherbourg, it ditched in the Gulf of Naples and was damaged beyond repair. In the meantime, Guinness bought Saro Cloud G-ABHG.
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Since thread slow. Thought I would try something else.
I just came across this mystery? DC-4's had round windows and DC-6 had square windows. Then I was working on US Marines file and trying to get exact designations. I have this pix of "90414" with round windows and then with square windows? The only thing I could think of was maybe they painted the windows outside to look like square ones. The nose length looks like DC-4 not longer like DC-6.
I just came across this mystery? DC-4's had round windows and DC-6 had square windows. Then I was working on US Marines file and trying to get exact designations. I have this pix of "90414" with round windows and then with square windows? The only thing I could think of was maybe they painted the windows outside to look like square ones. The nose length looks like DC-4 not longer like DC-6.
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I could understand a civil operator wanting, for passenger appeal reasons, to make its aircraft look more modern, but I am surprised at the US military wanting to do so. After all, those travelling on its aircraft are hardly likely to be in a position to decline to board them because they have round windows and look old fashioned!
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That series of C-54R/R5D-4R certainly accrued some interesting histories (via Joe Baugher) : http://cgibin.rcn.com/jeremy.k/cgi-bin/gzNavySearch.pl?target=90414&series=3
Curiously, someone posted a pic of a similar a/c on Twitter a few days/weeks ago with painted square windows. Identifying the crest on the tail might lead to an answer, but it IS a DC-4/C-54 airframe.
Interesting, too, is that Baugher shows that a/c as the Berlin Airlift Foundation C-54. However, it is NOT the current BAHF C-54 http://www.spiritoffreedom.org/c54.html
But again a conundrum: on the BAHF page above, there is a pic of their current C-54 where, in it's past, it also sported square-painted windows when with the US Army.
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