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[P51vsFw190]

This aircraft (believe it or not) has better performance than a Lockheed Model 10A Electra.

Here you go:





James

[LameHawk]

It's the General Aircraft ST-18 Croydon
Ended its life ignominiously on a coral reef in the Timor Sea.
Somewhere I have seen pictures of the poor thing lying there

[P51vsFw190]

Correct Lame,

You’re up!



James

[LameHawk]

Far away from my computer.
Have to declare open round

[Alfie Noakes]

Quote from sniperton #5328

  With an average of 5 posts per quest aircraft, we must have gone over more than 1000 types. I guess we're very close to the limit where only very obscure prototypes or DIY aircraft can be a novelty. Perhaps it would be time to shift to ships or vehicles. Or to birds with ca. 10,000 species to have some perspective

......forget birds.......fish are the way to go 

Q: what lunatics dreamt up these beauties, when and what happened next......
 
 



Apologies for the frivolity....I'm on holiday and just back from the BEACH 

Cheers

Alfie

[sniperton]

By the way...

[LameHawk]

Alouette?
Interesting camouflage, by the way

[sniperton]

I just found the pic without any further info, but belonging to the Indian Navy it can't be other than the Alouette I guess. 

[Radoye]

But... WHY???? 

[Alfie Noakes]

Fish glide effortlessly through water....so if you want your balloon / helicopter to glide effortlessly through the air you make it like a fish

Obvious when you think of it   

Question is....who thought of the idea first  ?

Cheers

Alfie

[LameHawk]

I might understand this if it was an underwater helicopter.
Alouette sous-marin

[sniperton]

Alouette sous-marin

What about starting another game with planes named after raptor birds, common birds, dive birds, fishes, sea animals, sea monsters, etc?