The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures

[Bus429]

PPrune Pop - No

[seacue]

Is it the DC-5?

[Tim Inder]

Is it the Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter?

[Bus429]

Spot on, Seacue - did my earlier, deleted clue give it away?

[seacue]

I don't think I saw the deleted clue. It's just that the DC-5 was a "Might Have Been" great plane if production hadn't been ordered closed by the AAF in order to concentrate on the DC-3 / C-47 / etc. Somewhere I saw that Wm Boeing had one as his VIP transport!

Oh, my, I was going to do the DC-5 myself as the next picture quiz. OK:

Next no-picture quiz.

I first flew in 1929.

SC

[Bus429]

Are you a Do X?

[seacue]

Bus429 - no
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[Bus429]

Are you multi-engined...................?

[seacue]

To Bus429 - yes, but not as many as the Do X.

[CamelPilot]

Were you built by Fairey?

[Bus429]

Are you a Grumman?

[seacue]

CamelPilot - no

Bus429 - no

[Bus429]

Are you a Sikorsky.................?

[seacue]

Bus429 - no, not one of them.

Were any Sikorsky models first flown in '29?

[Bus429]

Yes, the S38 amphibian.



Are you a Junkers G38?

[seacue]

Bus429 - my book says the S-38 first flew on 25 June 1928. Perhaps the first S-38A flew in 1929.

No, it isn't the Junkers G38.

[Tim Inder]

Are you equipped to land on (and take off again!) water?

[Airbedane]

1929 and multi-engined..........hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........Handley Page?

[Woomera]

Wild guess ..... Ford Trimotor?

[seacue]

Tim Inder - yes, I can operate from water.

Airbedane - no, not HP

Woomera - not a Ford. The Ford first flew in '26, from what I can tell.