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OK, so the top half is exactly the Bretagne. The two teardrops, the antennas towards the front and back, the double tail with strong dihedral, number of windows. So it has a special bottom half conversion. Floats or a big storage belly?
Registered: 01/02/01
Posts: 4873
Loc: Derbyshire, England
Originally Posted By: JAMF
OK, so the top half is exactly the Bretagne. The two teardrops, the antennas towards the front and back, the double tail with strong dihedral, number of windows. So it has a special bottom half conversion. Floats or a big storage belly?
JAMF: You were exactly right on the complete aircraft - a Sud Ouest Bretagne. Saying you were 'half right' was just me with a pun on half an image.
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'Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant.'
I also know this one, but I have no such inhibitions at the moment Well, maybe I do. I'll let it stand for a while and see if someone else pops in and know what sort of bo...er, I mean plane, this is
_________________________ In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
It seems we're on our own, so I'll hazard a guess that our last contestant is the Saunders-Roe Princess
_________________________ In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!