Just for something a little different, I wondered if anyone might like to try this 1962 magazine quiz. The illustration is a composite of 20 flying boats; each feature you need to identify is unique to one type of aircraft. I should perhaps add that I don’t have the answers.
By: stangman - 19th January 2014 at 22:39
Side blister just in front of the lower wing PBY Privateer ?
By: Chris B - 19th January 2014 at 17:57
Lower fuselage/hull looks like the Blackburn B20
By: David Legg - 19th January 2014 at 17:03
Mmmmm, the front turret looks as if its from japan…………..but will it be at leg ends?
….or a PBN-1 Nomad?
By: Rob68 - 18th January 2014 at 21:51
Mmmmm, the front turret looks as if its from japan…………..but will it be at leg ends?
By: stangman - 18th January 2014 at 17:20
I would say the hull step is Pby Catalina.
By: Bager1968 - 18th January 2014 at 00:39
Is that a Sunderland tail turret?
By: J Boyle - 17th January 2014 at 20:48
The underwing float also looks like a Curtiss Seahawk/Seagull unit.
By: FRANCISCO - 17th January 2014 at 16:51
Drat!
I am now reduced to flipping through the book page by page!
The upper wing is a Latecoere 302; the rear engine from a C.A.M.S. 55.10; under wing float from a BV 138
Must get out more………………..
By: FRANCISCO - 17th January 2014 at 16:36
Hi
This looks familiar to me; I believe that it is a piece of composite artwork that appeared in an advertisement in the Royal Air Force Flying Review magazine. It is based on the artwork in William Green’s Book “Flying Boats”. This was a pocket sized book published by Macdonald as Volume Five of the series Aircraft of the Second World War. I still have my original copy.
Sorry that I do not have all the answers but the nose turret seems to belong to a PBN-1 Nomad
By: Romantic Techno - 17th January 2014 at 16:18
Rear side turret: Martin PBM Mariner. Forward side turret: Potez-CAMS 141. Forward (inline) engines: Short S.19 Singapore III. (Rear (radial) engines could be a variety of tandem engined flying boats). Tailfin configuration: Boeing 314.
(It looks good! It looks fine! (Melody: Manfred Mann’s “Doh Wah Diddy”:)) Going to be stored in my art images collection).
Regards, RT
By: TonyT - 17th January 2014 at 14:39
Sunderland planing hull? the bit with the step
By: Ian Hunt - 17th January 2014 at 13:46
Walrus cockpit canopy.
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