Recent content by kegaro

Agreed re the extent of cribbage - but I don't think it's a European game which would take the Cicogna out of the picture. My hubby learned it from his father. His father was 2IC of a RAF base during WW2, and they lived in a demountable unit on the other side of the base - presumably to be...

Thank you Barry Bromley, I hadn't thought of it being an on-board thing, which gives another avenue rather than commemoration. Opens up a whole new avenue. It seems Canada has it's own cribbage game.

Thank you, I understood there was a streamlined version. The Cicogna without armaments is very close to my plane. I looked for information on any race or flight outside Europe/North Africa. The flags suggest a commemoration of some event. One looks like Union Jack, the other the former...

Thank you, that is so close. The tail is the best of any so far and the other features are similar - except for the armaments. The connection with the flags is still elusive.

Thank you - yes it's close in those areas. But the search continues for that pesky double tailfin.

Yes have looked at the AW-23. The tail is close ... but there's that extended fuselage in the centre. The AW-23 has the same flat-looking top to the fuselage - more so than other suggestions. Maybe the artist got the tail setup wrong when he was doing the etching. Plus the AW-23 is a wartime...

Had a look at that one ... but the longer the search goes on, it seems likely that my little plane had a combination of various features. With a tail that doesn't seem to match anything.

You could be onto something Barry! When I started I just image searched my plane ... and this one didn't come up. Props right, choppy front to the cockpit, wings about the same. But that pesky tail is the problem. I've found a near match on the Junkers G31. The whole thing could just be a...

Thank you Barry - yes a cribbage board. I have 70 of them. Doing a sortout the other day for a display and it finally occurred to me to chase down the origin of this one. The flags are linked Union Jack and the former Canadian flag - topped by a maple leaf. That's why I'm chasing a possible...

Thank you - the tail is almost spot on! I'm starting to think our artist put together the bits he liked in a few planes, or did it from memory. The search for my mystery aircraft has taken me to a few expected places - I didn't know about Armstrong Whitworth. I found "The Whistling...

Thank you, I didn't think of a commemoration for a flight. The Lockheed Electra is indeed similar - and more likely to be involved in such a flight than the poor old Capelis. That's the only one that turned up on a Google Image search. Just the problem with the tail to sort out - and looking...

A helluva read. Thank you. I just watched the first few minutes of 'Five Came Back', the passengers and crew entering the real plane and then the model Capelis juddering its way through the sky. It looked like it had lots of seat space and even had sleeping berths!

Understood re purpose of flags - but with the former Canadian Flag and the Union Jack, it indicates pre ... 1965 I think. The two sets of furled flags and the plane on the one item would seem to have a purpose??

Found the model on ebay XC-12 Capelis Aircraft Desktop Replica Mahogany Kiln Dried Wood Model Small New | eBay. A range of aircraft shown - made in the Philippines. There are certainly similarities between this one and the original ... the flattened roof, the overhang of the cockpit, the...

Thank you. Yes, have read up on the movie plane. Interesting read ... "The aircraft was funded by local Greek restaurateurs as a promotional aircraft, and constructed at the Alameda airport with help from University of California students. The funding, apparently, was insufficient for such an...