One day Rowan, i'll find a question to stump you :-) .
Your turn. I hate to think what you have got up your sleeve now :-) .
Andy (++)

Hi Andy

Try this- what's the plane?:



It might be easy, but I just loved the picture.

All the best

Rowan

:-) :-) :-) :-) What is it, a boat, a plane, a cock up :-) :-) . Its falling apart :-) Every time i look at it i start laughing. Thanks Rowan thats cheered me up no end .
Andy (++)

It's a Blackburn B20. For more information click on this link.
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/blackburn_b20.htm

David

Hi Andy

Your answer cheered me up after a long session editing a new Feature! :-)

And David... well that was too easy wasn't it, with a naval aviation fan on-line! Over to you...

All the best

Rowan

Hi Rowan!

I wonder what Feature you are talking about!

That Blackburn B20 Flying boat is so weird it could have been a French design! We should, someday, make a Trophy for the strangest plane ever designed. I'm pretty sure a French or British plane would win!

Jean-Luc

Which US navy squadron dropped an explosive filled toilet on Vietnam?

Jean-Luc the Russians have built and flown some bizarre creations as well.

David

Now that's what you call a dirty bomb! :-)

Was it painted brown by any chance????????

Hasagawa did a 1/72 scale kit of it....
it's in my work locker, and therefore can't answer until Saturday....... is that OK? :-)

VA-25

VA-25 Toilet Bomb

Over to you Fred.
I know there was a bomb shortage in Vietnam but surely things wern't that desperate :-)

Dave I also have a pair of 1/72 toilet bombs from Hasegawa. They were listed as not required on the instructions, I had difficulty working out what they were. It was only when I saw a picture in a book that I worked it out.

David

What am I? What can you tell about me?

Hi Fred

Do you mean the aircraft or the cartoon pilot? Chuck and I are debating whether the aircraft was the star of Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines - or, rather, we're trying to figure out how old I was when the film came out! :-)

All the best

Rowan

Oops! Just the sky steed. (++)

Hi Fred

I'm going to be very vague on this one - I still reckon it featured in "Those Magnificent Men..." - is it a "Demoiselle" of some sort?

All the best

Rowan

Hi again

I think it is... a Santos-Dumont Demoiselle No. 19 - and, if so, it's claim to fame was that it was the world's first true Ultra-Light...

"By this time, Santos had seen several Blériot aircraft in flight and had decided to construct a monoplane. The result was the Demoiselle No. 19, an ultra-light tractor monoplane made of bamboo and silk and weighing only about 153 pounds. The Demoiselle (nicknamed the Grasshopper) became a sensation all over Europe and was sold by the thousands, introducing an entirely new generation to the thrill of flight for less than five hundred francs. Many designers regarded the Demoiselle as an oddity, but the aircraft had a clear impact on many designers and its image can be seen lurking in the lines of Anthony Fokker's first aircraft, the Spinne (Spider) of 1912 and in light aircraft of the post war period."

Here's a link

All the best

Rowan

I'm still trying to work out if thats the front or back :-) :-) .
I have a feeling it is at the Smithsonian museum though.
Andy (++)

Hi Merlin,

You win!

Bethlyn, it isn't Smithsonian, and I'm not ready to divulge my museum, as I have a few more hopeful "stumpers" to submit, should I ever win a question again. :-)

Cheers Fred

Right - here's an oldie that definitely didn't fall into the Ultra-Light category! Name this Big Bird:



All the best

Rowan

Hi Rowan,
Is it a Handley Page m/200, which i can't seem to find any pics too but fits the description .
Andy (++)

Hi Andy

You've got the right country, but the date and manufacturer are off the mark. Try looking for something that flew in 1931...

All the best

Rowan

It looks like an Avro something or other.
I have looked for this plane in all the now defunct aircraft companys and can't find it yet :-) :-) .
Getting slightly stumped now, Andy (++)

I think it's a Vickers 163

David

Hi David

Just as I was beginning to think I was going to have to give away the answer! Yes, it's the Vickers 163 bomber/troop-carrier, built to specification C.16/28.

Over to you

Rowan