The picture is too small!!


Cheers Nick

Yup, I realized that and have been working on the problem....

Thank you for fixing it.


Cheers Nick

A verbal correction to the picture - the skin looks a little odd because it is corrugated, that feature didn't come through very clearly

Hi Matthew

Wow! I've never seen that one before! Time to start hunting. I'll be fascinated to learn what it is.

All the best

Rowan

Looks like a Nieuport-Delage design.

Is it German?? Junkers??


Cheers Nick

Sorry, Tim & Nick, both wrong. Nick asked earlier if it was British. No to that, but there is a British connection. The company was originally formed by two British ex-pat brothers. The aircraft in question was designed after they merged with another company. Not in Britain, France or Germany.

It looks a Thomas Bros design. And that fits with your other clue. Are we getting warm?

Mighty warm. With that and the previous clues, you should be able to come up with the company name, and then a short journey to the aircraft designation.

For another clue, the aircraft had a different designation when it went to the races.

Thomas-Morse racer? A modified MB-7? Only monoplane one I can think of.
Doesn't look too much like an mb7

Right to the company, wrong to the aircraft. A previous clue will give you part of the aircraft designation.......

How about the MB-3, took second in the 1920 Pulitzer Trophy race with WW1 ace Harold Hartney at the controls ??

Right race, wrong year. Soooo close now, I can feel this one ending soon!

Well that only leaves the MB-6 which took third in 1921 when the MB-7 crashed

Well, Damian, looks like you should get this one. The TM-22, aka R-5 for the 1921 race, but also, as I just found out when checking your answer, also known as MB-7! Makes it difficult for quizzes.

Anyway, here it is in race livery as the R-5.....

Thanks Matthew, but Jaypee threw the MB-7 into the mix, so it's over to him now.

Wotcha got for us, Highlander ??

Well, looks like JP should get this one. The TM-22, aka R-5 for the 1921 race, but also, as I just found out when checking Damian's answer, also known as MB-7! Makes it difficult for quizzes, sorry for the confusion.
I should have checked JP's MB-7 answer earlier.

Anyway, here it is in race livery as the R-5.....

Aww crap! Gotta think up a question now
You slopey shouldered that one

Ok then. What fighter started life as a floatplane?

Spitfire?

The spitfire was designed as a landplane and had floatplane variant.
I'm talking about the other way round.

And the s6b is totally different a/c than the spitfire.

The fairey swordfish??


Cheers Nick

Kawanishi N1K "George" ???

spot on Paul. n1k rex/george
fae wikipedia

Kawanishi's N1K was originally built as a floatplane fighter to support forward offensive operations where no airstrips were available, but by 1943 when the aircraft entered service, Japan was firmly on the defensive, and there was no more need for a fighter to fulfill this role.

The requirement to carry a bulky, heavy float essentially crippled the N1K against contemporary American fighters. Kawanishi engineers, however, had proposed in late 1941 that the N1K would be the basis of a formidable land-based fighter too, and a land-based version was produced as a private venture by the company.

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