Try “Sikorsky S37 Guardian” on Google.
There is a very good front 3/4 shot from, I think Aeropix on one of the sites.
Also shows the floatplane version.
I did this following John Aeroclub’s excellent response.
“Now I see the wings its bloody obvious its Sikorsky………………now”
🙂

I think it is the XLB-3A with twin P&W R-1340-1 engines.

You might well be right about the Wasps!:)

I see that at least “Google” is celebrating the 50th anniverary of the first artificial satellite.
I remember seeing it come over that first evening ( or was it really the second stage booster? 🙁 )

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on a remakably similar note to lindys lads tale… its alleged that the remains of a twin pioneer are still in the dunes at the end of the runway at RAF Valley.
it was full of VIP’s and was refuelled with avtur instead of avgas, and went in on takeoff.
this is a factual event, and its said that the bodies recovered and the wrekage left in the dunes.

This sounds like a hyped-up version of the actual accident with the Basset that was refuelled with avtur at Valley in the very early 70’s.

I think Hunting Percival would have been be rather surprised to have been credited with the HP 115. 🙂

On the lower shots of the Bristol Fighter,does anybody know for sure what that object is, up on the left hand side of the cabane, that looks like an overgrown vent pipe?

Maybe sacriledge but I would have loved to have seen a Pembroke fitted with turbines – in a similar nacelle to the Turbo Firecats

There was indeed a proposal in Huntings for a Turbo Pembroke in the late ’50’s. Naturally this would have involved a collateral requirement for the development of cabin pressurisation.
The joke in the company at the time was that it might be a start to succeed in keeping rain water out of the current Pembroke before actually considering a system for keeping air in.