Hi Lefty!Originally Posted by lefty
The cards say French!
If so, make it open house please.
Cheers.
Hi Lefty!
The cards say French!
If so, make it open house please.
Cheers.
OK, see of this one's on the cards !!
Naval Aircraft Factory N5N1....OK, see of this one's on the cards !!
BG
That'll do, BG !
Thanks Lefty....
Here's a beautiful floater of the early twenties....
BG
How lovely to see so many nice floaters appearing - as this is very much my favourite genre, I'll pass on this one !
In the meantime, if anyone knows of a good cure for gout...........
Not a cure but I have used Diclofenac (Voltarol) cream on my toes when I had it a year or so ago, which reduces the pain.In the meantime, if anyone knows of a good cure for gout...........
Cant remember what the Dr gave me though. Good luck, but watch the interactions with other drugs & only use for max of 5 days.
Keith
Hi Lefty.
A close source (my wife) suggests, if bad - Colchicine. If not so bad and as a maintenance - Allopurinol. Good luck!In the meantime, if anyone knows of a good cure for gout...........
Hi Baragouin.
Took a little while to recognise twin motors! But possibly the French Brd1? Sources (not my wife) call it "uninspiring" and "displayed poor stability in flight" - hence a short-lived career...
Yes Green it is indeed the Blanchard BRD1 of 1922.....Hi Lefty.
A close source (my wife) suggests, if bad - Colchicine. If not so bad and as a maintenance - Allopurinol. Good luck!
Hi Baragouin.
Took a little while to recognise twin motors! But possibly the French Brd1? Sources (not my wife) call it "uninspiring" and "displayed poor stability in flight" - hence a short-lived career...
Your turn please
BG
Thanks Baragouin.
A Full Frontal Floater...
Hi Green!
I've got following questions:
- conventional tail? Where is it?
- military or civilian?
- european or US?
- tourer, recce or what was its use?
- pre or post WW2?
Thanks for your reply
BG
Baragouin - sounds like you don't like my floater?
I worked hard to find it, so I'd like to let it float longer than 27 minutes before answering all those questions just yet, OK? But I can tell you it does have a conventional tail...
Cheers!
Better dive in before the float experts show up. This looks like a General Aviation GA-43.
G'day Moses!
Yeah, that's why I didn't want to answer all those questions above - cause I was thinking in a few more minutes, someone is gonna come along and slam-dunk it!
Well done sir!
Thanks Green. Okay, back to the floater well one more time. This time a large amphibian under construction.
I can't prove this one managed more than a hop at best, heck it might not have ever flown but there is no proof that I have found either way. Makes for an interesting mystery anyways...
Presumably American - wouldn't be the Mack Dolphin ?
That sounds more like a Scottish porpoise!
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Ah, but very few of them can fly any distance, ph !
Mind you, looking at this one.............
Thanks anyway for your effort(s) in answering my questions....however for the benefit of us poor ignorant non-native English speaking can you explain what "slam-dunk" means?G'day Moses!
Yeah, that's why I didn't want to answer all those questions above - cause I was thinking in a few more minutes, someone is gonna come along and slam-dunk it!
Well done sir!
Thanks
BG
BG, it doesn't necessarily help being an Anglophone.
'Slam-dunk' is, I think , a quaintly American sporting metaphor.
Two teams of 8-foot tall freaks take turns to drop a ball into a basket at opposite ends of the playing area. That is called a 'slam-dunk'.
Whichever one happens to be in the lead at the end of several hours is declared the winner. The score is usually something like 147-145. It's a great alternative to Mogadon.
Isn't it a term used in the US version of netball?
Thanks very much Lefty now with your help and with Merriam-Webster's I understand what Green meant by "slam-dunk" (a rather convolute metaphor may I say....)
cheers
BG
PS By the way I have no idea about the proposed amphibian
Not the Dolphin. It was possibly tested on Lake Michigan around 1930-31.
It was trimotor powered with three Pratt & Whitney Wasps mounted in the wings leading edge. No wait, another source says three Hissos. Even more confusing, they might have been Hispano engines!
Well I found it by expanding my search a bit - hadn't looked for anything as big as a 16-seater !
The Century Sea Devil eh ? (Told you you would get me stumped anytime soon!) Nice one.
You got it Mike.
There is an article about it in this pdf, starting on page 8. That is where the photos came from.
Link to pdf: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hys8w63vog...-1994.pdf?dl=0
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