my strangest thing

The strangest thing I’ve ever ever eaten was a McDonalds:eek::eek::eek:

It tasted vile

Over the weekend a Short Skyvan, and last Friday, what might have been a de Havilland Dove flying over Aylesbury

My Idea

I know it’s twin engined and it has a metal fuselage, but what about the Cunliffe-Owen Concordia? Beautiful aeroplane, why no-one’s thought of replicating it is beyond me as there is a fairly easy engine availability, (Alvis Leonides). Failing that, I’d go for the Airspeed Courier.

Captions

“I think even you have bitten off more than you can chew, Mr. Hughes”.

“What Geoffrey de Havilland’s earlier designs lacked in elegance, was made up for by sheer scale”.

“It’s got 25 Rolls-Royce engines. How many oil refineries to the mile does it do”?

“Zeeze Eenglish are Ingenious. Zey have made ze Crystal Palace fly”!!!

:dev2:

Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit but it ranks as amongst the funniest :p

Now that’s sarcasm!!!:dev2:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fleet Shadower
Unless anyone can beat this monster of an aircraft it looks like I’ve won.

See here http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread198736/pg1

Well, if we are into flights of fantasy, I see your P.192 and raise you a Be-2500 – max take-off weight 5,500,000lb. Quite heavy for a paper plane [/irony]
http://www.beriev.com/eng/Be-2500_e/Be-2500_e.html

However, I think a Beriev A-40 would suffice as a modern jet flying boat. And it should be available to buy.
http://www.beriev.com/eng/A-40_e/A-40_e.html

I said beat it, not fall way short of my benchmark. Now that be-2500 is one ugly SOB.

The forward fuselage of a (the?) Avro Ashton, as pictured in post no 4, survives somewhere – a forum search should turn it up. That, as far as I am aware, is the biggest Tudor relic surviving by a long way.

Unless, of course, you count Star Ariel and Star Tiger still flying round Elvis’s pad in the Bermuda triangle…

Adrian

Sorry, I regard the Avro Ashton to be an entirely different adaptation and threrfore a different aeroplane, much like the fact that the Lincoln was an adaptation of the Lancaster