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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

sandar said:
How do you guys post pictures that can be enlarged? I presume the file host site is different to mine.
Click to expand...

We use the 'manage attachments' option that's located just below the box used to type messages. If you upload a photo here it will automatically resized to a thumbnail you can click to enlarge.

:)
 
Thanks Ferry, I will try that next time I post a picture. As I usually use the Quick Reply box, I hadn't noticed the Manage attachment option (coz it ain't there), it's on the Post Reply page innit?
 
Easy when you know how - I'm not too sure what the Quick Reply option is about anyway - it is just as quick the other way.

It is of course an XFA-1, another Fokker creation, as I am surprised our Ferry didn't point out !

:icon29: for Sandar.
 
Trying the Post Reply way, hope it works. If it has worked, it is a lot quicker than the way I have been doing it.
 
In fact this is a very user-friendly site - you don't have to go through any intermediaries like ImageShack. Personally I just use my own software (MS PictureIt) to make the scan into a website-suitable jpeg (full screen) before importing it through the method you've now discovered. Don't forget to rename it something like 'Wozzat' - once or twice people have left the name on - a bit of a giveaway! Another nice thing is that if you just point at a mystery, before clicking you can see how many times it's been enlarged. You've got a good one going if that gets into double figures... (rare nowadays).

C'mon Mike, do your worst :a1310: !
 
:icon29: for Mike, or, perhaps it ought to be :guinness: as it is, indeed an Ireland N2C.
 
Well now I never knew that about the image clicks, Ralf. Let's see if we can get this baby into the twenties!
Another pusher/floater, naturally...............

Incidentally, I got fed up having to flatten my precious books to scan some of the pics, and invested in a Plustek Optibook 3600. This will scan right up to the edge of the plate, so you simply lay the book at 90 degrees on scanner. Works a treat and you don't get those murky shadowy bits.
 
Looks a bit like the Vickers Viking amphibian - but it's not that. Not really a flying boat, is it? But I think it IS British...
 
You are right and wrong, Ralf. Right, because it isn't a flying boat - it is adapted from a flying boat model to become a land-based fighter. (That is a cannon sticking out of the nose!). Sorry if I misled there - slap on wrist to Lefty.
Wrong, because it is not British.
 
OK I'm going to give this to &Co, although this is actually the F.B.A Type D Cannon Fighter. That is a 37mm Hotchkiss cannon stuck in its nose - one would have thought that the recoil would have shaken such a fragile craft to pieces.
Over to you, mon ami............. a small Ricard, please, barman.
 
Your lordship is too good with me :)
I have to believe you for the designation of your mystery since your sources far surpass mine, but you may want to know that Aviafrance calls it "type H"...

Never mind and roll on, as our scottish ancestor loves to say:
 
Ralf, dear boy, that looks awfully like a light aircraft. Far be it from me to invoke Rule XVIIB of the Forum Handbook, but, well, we just don't do that sort of thing round here, don't y'know ? Next thing, you'll be posting turgid old Cessnas........................ Any more of this, and the Committee will be handing you the Service Webley and suggesting you nip round behind the Mess and do the honourable thing.

Anyway, think this is some sort of dreary Auster.

(&Co, for the record, AviaFrance has its moments, and this is one, where it calls two different aircraft Type H. Davilla & Soltan refer to the Cannon Fighter as Type D, being a derivative of the H. Quite how you get D coming later than H, you will have to ask the French, but, of course, their raison d'être is to confuse the world..................)
 
It does look like an Auster J-5B Autocar. Like Lefty said, the rules are getting tested a bit here. Don't want to invoke Rule XVIIB of the Forum Handbook. :173go1: :costumes:
 
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