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...
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...
RR
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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.
Looks like a FBA type H
No it isn't. V.close though.
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:
The C.F.A. D-57 Phryganet...
De Vliegende Hollander
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...et qu'est-que c'est que ca? (or however you say wozzat? in French):
De Vliegende Hollander
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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.:costumes:
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Only thing that bothers me is that wee scoop intake on the port side. Doesn't show in my Autocar pics............
Maybe the Aiglet then?
I'm chasing my tail here: http://www.wonwinglo.scale-models.net/id51.htm
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Auster it ain't. My Aunt Jane defines it as a 'Four-seat Cabin monoplane', so light it ain't either. It packs 140 horses, a lot more aircraft than the 2-seat 90hp Phryg!
'Twas chosen for the obscurity of its manufacturer, and I've already given a big clue towards nationality...
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Pfftt! I'm going to bed.
Wake me when the light plane nightmare has passed.
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It's a Boisavia B-60 Mercurey. A French copy of the AUSTER.
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