Came acrss this on youtube and I wondered if anyone can id for him?
By: Lindy's Lad - 20th August 2008 at 00:15
On second thoughts, I’m talking c**p……. It looks like a cross between a canoe and a bathtub….
By: Lindy's Lad - 19th August 2008 at 22:32
nothing to say it is or was a dinghy. It does look like an upturned canopy. If so, it would appear we are looking at the rear half. The rail in the centre could be a guide rail which would have an alloy casting fixed to it which would engauge a track down the centreline of the fuselage. Off hand, I cant think of any aircraft with a bubble canopy and a centre rail (except Canadian Chipmunks and I’m damn sure its not off that)
Dig it out and have a look!.
By: XH668 - 19th August 2008 at 21:30
Well its down my neck of the woods if anyone wants me to go a salvage it, as for a fuel tank im not sure
By: bolyman - 19th August 2008 at 21:14
Well a few years back I tracked a fella who bought some of Spartan/Kentings Mosquito slipper fuel tanks, he converted a couple to canoe/motorboats, when I got to him he had scrapped them all, I cant think that they would have worked any good? Darrell
By: Creaking Door - 19th August 2008 at 20:35
Funny looking ‘fuel tank’…..unless it’s been heavily modified.
My first thought is that it looks like a ventral gondola or a upturned cockpit canopy but I can’t imagine how you’d make either one of those into a dingy? :confused:
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August 19, 2008 at 7:04 pm