Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator

On the way to WABB.

Okay, this is the Michigan TM-5. They also built the Dallas-Breese X which evolved into the Vultee V-1A (same designer). "TM-5 1930 = 1pChwM; 120hp Dayton Bear. Engine was in a pod mounted atop the cabin. c/n 1. Reported scrapped and burned 9/3/30, reg cancelled 9/5/30" Open board please.

Who knows! The company produced one other design, a low wing monoplane that looked vaguely like a Vultee V-1. Edit: Here is an ad for the actual engine.

Obviously from the USA (those cheap suits and required hats are a giveaway).:icon_lol: A one-off from the early 1930's.

Soooo Cool! And he wrote the music; Genius :salute: Saw the Canberra, and there was an F111 visiting from Heyford too. Happy memories of the Good Ol' Cold War... :snowman:

Quack!

Thanks BG. Yes, it is a great photo for the time. I recently unearthed a cache of rarities. This is one of them-

The DH89 did fly between Pemba, Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam on Sunday evenings as Flight EC207. This must have been a magical experience for anyone lucky enough to have made the trip, though many of them probably took it for granted and were worrying more about the price of tungsten, how England were doing in the Test Match, or whether little Nigel would pass his Common Entrance, rather than noticing the ethereal, eternal African sunset... You're travelling more or less due south:

Had I not noticed the partial name on the fin I would have looked at the Breguet line first. I have this same photo labeled as a Amiot 122 BP3.

Not long till we reach the big one, South Africa... Let's go and park in Zanzibar: There's an Air Safaris Hermes freighter in one corner.

I think the hints are more confusing than the photo! :isadizzy:

I like flying boats.

Before we land on Zanzibar there is some catching up to do with the Ladybird book. As well as the boat race on Lake Victoria and the school in Uganda, there were at least two more pages, + their illustrations, for Kenya. Here you have the classic vague justification for colonialism: the original inhabitants weren't exploiting their land properly, so they deserved to lose it to people who knew how to make money from it! This is illustrated by perhaps the most remarkable picture in the whole little book: The artist has essentially painted typical English countryside, familiar to the early '60s British children for whom the book was produced. This has led to the imported sheep having to be unrealistically squeezed into a cornfield. It is pretty obvious who's Lord of All he Surveys. But, as the text most patronisingly mentioned, 'the farm workers were Africans, who were very clever with the machinery.' (OK as long as it's a Massey Fergusson tractor rather than a Kalashnikov rifle).

Thanks much Sir !! :wavey:

Could not have been very successful!

...... if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck......... :icon_lol:

Carenado's one of course :-)

I like..... I like !!!!! :applause:

In Tokyo no less. :icon29:

That was an odd one!

Good to see more SU converts join me :icon_lol: Well done Ed en Kiwi As to the question further up: all SU versions can be converted to show in FSX...... you use ModelconverterX to .... well..... convert. There is NO WAY to import anything directly into FSX. :wavey:

My money is on the Short Valetta. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/worlds-largest-seaplane/query/shorts+rochester+kent

I'm pretty sure it's the same girl. I suspect that she may have chosen (Dutch) Orange deliberately... She seems to be waiting for someone at every airport - and the weird thing is, it's every airport we take Daddy, Alison and John to! Is she waiting for them? Or is she waiting for me? Or am I being paranoid?!? Dismissing all worries about the South African secret agent, it's time to fly on to Zanzibar. We'll stick with the de Havilland, C-47s are grounded for the time being.

Thanks for that :salute::wiggle: Cherio, Rob