The What is it? Game

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The Apache A-36?

 

[nuuumannn]

Quite right, Graeme. Good spotting. The Saunders Roe SR.A/1 jet powered flying boat fighter.

0207 Solent Sky SRA.1

More here: Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 - Wikipedia

 

[gumbyk]

Quite right, Graeme. Good spotting. The Saunders Roe SR.A/1 jet powered flying boat.

View attachment 5259980207 Solent Sky SRA.1

More here: Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 - Wikipedia

Good God Man!!!
That monstrosity is uuuuugly!!!

 

[nuuumannn]

It's big too, yet they still managed to give the pilot the smallest cockpit canopy possible!

 

[buffnut453]

For a floatplane fighter, it actually looks pretty decent. You just have to pick the angle (and take off the beaching wheels).

 

[Capt. Vick]

Well done sir! Very well done!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nice!

 

[Graeme]

Cheers!

Coming to a Forum near you - this summer....
Harry Potter and the Mysterious Airframe.

 

[buffnut453]

Short Sunderland?

 

[Jager52]

And its modern offspring.

Quite right, Graeme. Good spotting. The Saunders Roe SR.A/1 jet powered flying boat fighter.

View attachment 5259980207 Solent Sky SRA.1

More here: Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 - Wikipedia

 

[Graeme]

Short Sunderland?

Not the Sunderland Mark. This is much bigger...

 

[buffnut453]

Spruce Goose then?

 

[Airframes]

Short Shetland ?

 

[Graeme]

Spruce Goose then?

Too big now. No water involved.

Not the Shetland Terry.

 

[Airframes]

Brabazon ?

 

[Graeme]

Not the Brabazon mate.
A little more of the photo...

 

[Airframes]

Titanic 2, the flying version !!

 

[GrauGeist]

That Kalinin abortion, perhaps?

 

[Graeme]

Sorry Dave, it's not a Ruskie.

 

[Graeme]

I sense we're approaching stalling speed with this one, so a couple of big clues. Harry Potter was photographed crawling through the starboard wing in September 1949.
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