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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Oh goody ! Now that we have lost Aerofiles' search function, the same in AviaFrance has succumbed to a similar bug...... Our little world is falling apart...
 
lefty said:
AviaFrance has succumbed to a similar bug......
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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!
 
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.

Open House

Chris
 
Mmm. It's quiet here.
May I use the lull to request an ID ? What is this British flying boat?

This is not a proper wot, because I don't know the answer.

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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.
 
lefty said:
Fortunately, Arthur T Guinness (of brewing fame) was in need of a flying yacht .....
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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.
 
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.
 

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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!
 
How about this forgotten dusty bomber tucked away in a barn somewhere...

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cthornburg said:
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.
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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. :dizzy:
 
I know it's a typo but Leotard is kind of funny.

Since this thread is moving slow of late, not going to split hairs. Have it as a Letord 5 which it close enough. Presumably put to bed wet after a slog through WWI.

Over to Chris.
 
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