Guess the Aeroplane (just a bit of fun.)

Hmm - don't have a clue but it looks like an elliptical wing - Supermarine something???

Hell, but you're good Mick, it's a Supermarine 327, twin Spitfire from 1937, I reckon it would have kicked the shit out of the lightnings!

I will have to give you that Grumpy42.

Yes it the Supermarine type 327 the so called twin engined Spitfire.

The original version with Peregrines and 12 Brownings (6 in each wing outboard of the engines) was to the same specification as the Westland Whirlwind.
This later version with 6 Hispano cannon (3 in each wing root) and Merlins was submitted speculatively in 1938.
The claimed AUW of 11,000lbs does seem a bit optimistic. The DH Hornet grew to a maximum of 20,000lbs and it had a rather bigger wing to start with!
Rejected primarily because the cannon installation was considered impractical.

How about this?

It had the same name as a 1933 boys adventure comic.

Looks like a Hawker again, by the tail. That turret gives it away, if I could just recall the name! I wasn't around to read comics in '33. Defiant?

The magazine continued until 1981 - so you would have 'been around'!

The Defiant was designed by Bolton Paul.

Yes, silly me!
And it's not a Topper, a Dandy, a Beano, or an Eagle, either! All the other Boulton Paul's had radial engines.

You forgot The Beezer.

"All the other Bolton Paul's had radial engines."

Er...The Bolton Paul Balliol and Sea Balliol?

OK fans - these are all from different eras - a couple are easy - the others might be a bit harder.












YES - one of them is a Jindivik - BUT - which model???

Quorneng wrote: It had the same name as a 1933 boys adventure comic.

Yup, Hawker Hotspur.
It's interesting in that it used Hurricane wings! The Air Ministry continued to promote the 'gunship' principle. And the idea that the .303 was good enough in 1890, it's therefore good enough in 1940! How those pilots managed to shoot anything down with pea shooters amazes me!

Would the amphibian be a Sikorsky S-39 ?

Klipkopwildlife wrote: Would the amphibian be a Sikorsky S-39 ?

Congratulations Klippy - you win the Model Chat gold plated fly button. :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's about as much use as a Putty medal! Now if it was a zip!