Silhouette challenge

[Lightning Mate]

Excellent call WK

The "Tu luc".

Open House has been declared.

......but before you all rush off please see my new AH&N starter thread

"A Golden Wedding.

[Noyade]

Thanks Walter! Saved me a fruitless search. Nice challenge David, adding another to the growing list of "I've never heard of that".

Not so difficult...

[Lightning Mate]

A Convair?

[Lightning Mate]

TC,

Blimey LM; whats going on, you can nearly see the whole darn 'plane!!!

Personally I thought it was so obscure that it would have been very unfair to crop it.

Of course, I hadn't reckoned on WK being airborne had I !!

[Lightning Mate]

Back to the challenge.

Judging by the distance of the doors and hangar wall, this thing can't have wings!!!!!

S'not a gondola of some kind is it?

The thot plickens - the guy on the left looks distinctly US Navy, but I don't get the hat of the other one.

[Lightning Mate]

Am I being silly, or could this just be German?

I'm off to sulk now, since nobody else is in the playground.

[Lightning Mate]

After WW2, didn't the US and UK share some Ju290s between them.

That might account for the under-fuselage slight "blister".

[Noyade]

G'day mate. Sorry, I've been watching some DVDs. The clue is the "wheelchair" access. Well, I thought so.

Here's inside, very plush isn't ?

[MReyn24050]

Consolidated XC-99 possibly?

[Lightning Mate]

Douglas C-54 ?

[Noyade]

Sorry Mel, but no. Very important man used that wheelchair elevator...

[Lightning Mate]

Not the presidential C-54 then Graeme, as above......?

[Noyade]

Sorry David, missed your post. It is the C-54 "Sacred Cow". Your control.

Factsheets : Douglas VC-54C “Sacred Cow”

G'night Gents, and congrats once again Mel!

Cheers,
Graeme.

[Lightning Mate]

...and congrats once again from me Mel.

Hope you bought her something memorable.

[Lightning Mate]

You're the only one out to play Mel, so here's another:

[MReyn24050]

Hi David.

Hope you bought her something memorable.

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Yes I think she was happy with the gifts. I almost brought her the Putnam's book on Miles Aircraft that I saw on ebay, but I don't think she would have been impressed.

Is your challenge the Junkers G 24 or G 38? It looks from your photograph that the wing skin is of wriggly tin.

[Lightning Mate]

Should have bought the book Mel.

Sorry, not Junkers.

[Lightning Mate]

Thank you for the PM Mel.

The challenge - the engine you see is the only one it has....

the wing skin is of wriggly tin

It's fabric covered.

[MReyn24050]

Interesting, the cockpit must be aft of the wing. Puts me in mind of the Nieuport-Delage 42S configuration.

[Lightning Mate]

This aeroplane was designed and built with one objective in mind.....