Four floaters.....

[lefty]

I know many of you are, like myself, fascinated by aquatic aircraft.

Here are four quite different ones from four different countries.

Get searching (quite easy really)

Lefty

[lefty]

Sorry, Kimber, none of these four is from the USA !

[HundertzehnGustav]

i aint got nah fekkin clu

but i really, REALLY like the look of the first one.

The lower right one looks like a french or Italian preproduction or Prototype Floater.


uneducated guesses.

[Ferry_vO]

#4 looks like a Fiat CMASA RS14.

No clue yet on the others, I was thinking Seabee as well on #3.

[Windrunner]

yes, the 4th one is italian. I've seen the first one someday...unfortunately I don't remember anything else. BTW, have you notice how small are those wings?

[lefty]

Sorry, the fourth one is NOT Italian ! (If you mean bottom right)

[Willy]

I know what #1 (top left) is, I just don't know the precise model name. It's a smaller scale prototype of one of the Blom & Voss giant seaplanes built in Germany during WWII. B&V figured rightly figured it would cheaper and easier to "debug" the aircraft on a smaller scale than go full size right off the bat.

As for the others, I don't have a bloody clue......

[lefty]

Willy, you are on the right track. Only, this isn't the German scale model (Blohm & Voss FGP227). A half-pint for our Administrator.
Lefty.

[Moses03]

#3 is a Nardi F.N.333 Riviera.


Moses

[lefty]

:icon29: to Moses, no 3 is indeed the Nardi.

[Moses03]

Dear Lefty,
Yes there are live people who regularly check this forum. :bump:

As a matter of fact, it may be my favorite forum- although you would not guess that by how much I have posted in here.

I have searched for the mystery floaters and it bugs me I can't track down #4 since it looks so familiar. :blind:

It seems like when no one has answered a mystery thread for some time, it means most have given up.

Time to spill the beans. Here are your beers::icon29: :icon29:

Moses

[lefty]

I'll try just three clues, Willy was close with #1, but it's a British scaled-down model, not German.

#2 is Canadian - that should narrow it down a bit.

And #4 is a bit of a stinker - it's a French prototype.

Those beers are still in the chiller............................

[HundertzehnGustav]

HAH i said French or italian Prototype. cxlose but no hit.
But i regard it as cheating to look it up on the internet.

visit often and would like to know how good you gents know your aircraft.:icon29:

[Awesome]

Not facinated but I love the Spruce Goose and the PBY. :D

Awesome

[Jaxon]

From the first look the #4 floater looks like a Casa indeed, but 2nd best could be a Bloch, too

(I have a Bloch MB 131 Bomber for CFS2 made by Alain Breton and the nosecone somehow reminds me of it)

I am not afraid to use the net, just need to know WHAT I am looking for.

Well, there seems to have been a Bloch 233 seaplane concept.
Though I could not find a pic, my vote goes for this one, thinking of a further development of the 131 with sleeker lines, it colud be possible.

#1 reminds me in parts of the B-314 Clipper, maybe it is a prototype for this one?

[Ralf Roggeveen]

#2 is Canadian - that should narrow it down a bit.

......................

De Havilland something? It'll be a DHC ?? with a name like 'Marmoset', 'Mink' or 'Woodchuck'...

[lefty]

I'm going to give Jaxon a:icon29: here - it's the Bloch MB480. first flown in 1939. Two prototypes only, one crashed fatally, the other finally destroyed by the Italians in 1943. Nice-looking aircraft.

Lefty

Trafalgar Day !!

Ralf, sorry, it's not de Havilland - a smaller manufacturer. One of its little brothers appeared in a quiz here recently!

[mississippi]

Is the 4 one a Fiat may be a CMASA RS 14 . :) :sheep:

[Jaxon]

Thx for the beer on #4 !

I have seen #3 before, too - pretty sure.

But dang - I don`t remember..

Isn`t that a homebuilt plane ?

The engine nacelles at no2 remind me of the grumman skyrocket, but i could not find such a rumman seaplane effort.

[lefty]

OK, let's get this straight, the bottom left is a Nardi N333, the bottom right is a Bloch MB 480.

What we are looking for now is top left, a British scale prototype, made by one of the famous British flying boat manufacturers (There aren't that many, and most of them begin with S !), and top right, which is Canadian, not Grumman !!!

We are talking 1941-ish here.

Lefty

[lefty]

Well, time's up, my friends.

The mysterious Brit is the Saro (Saunders-Roe) 37, also known as the Shrimp. It was powered by 4 Pobjoy Niagara engines, as was another well-known half-scale prototype. (Anyone??)

The Canadian is the Fleet 50 (the Fleet Fort trainer featured here a while ago) - here is the landplane version.

Sorry, chaps, the :icon29: :icon29: go to me - I shall be building up a thirst on the curling rink today!

regards

Lefty

[Hurricane]

The sterling!

and the comper swift was, they tried a half scale prototype but the ant who was supposed to be test pilot couldn't fit in the cockpit:costumes: