What wing?

[Squawk7777]

I found some old slides from my dad. One slide I came across shows a wing, but I cannot figure out to what airplane type it belongs to. The picture was taken about 40 years ago. Any experts out there?



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[Fareastdriver]

It looks like a twin piston judging by the wing structure between the inner/outer flap. The aileron/flap mix is not the same as a DC3 but it does look like the C20/C46.
That's my bet.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Going completely the other way - Comet 4B? That panel looks very much like the red panel on the BEA Comets.

[sycamore]

Or a Caravelle ?

[chevvron]

I agree with HD; it's the wrong shape for a Caravelle and the surface looks too smooth for a piston aircraft, plus the static discharge line and what looks like fuel vent on the trailing edge look right for a Comet.

[Squawk7777]

more leads?

Thank you for your replies. I found another picture, not sure if it is related to the first one. It shows the cabin, don't know if it is any help.

[Yellow Sun]

It doesn't look at all like a Comet to this old Nimrod pilot.

YS

[Groundloop]

Definitely a swept wing jet but not a Comet. No wing tanks so could then only be a 4B - but the 4B has an enormous wing fence running across the full span - and Comets do not have slotted flaps.

[thetimesreader84]

Boeing 737. Probably -200, given the apparant age.

Of course, I could be wrong...

[oxenos]

I agree with yellow sun - Comet / Nimrod had no spoilers either. I think Times reader is correct. Interior shot also looks like 737.

[twochai]

Fokker F-28, I'd venture.

[RampTramp]

Not an F28 twochai, I think they're all 2+2 or max 2+3. I'd go along with Tmesreader, an early model B737.

[AndoniP]

trident? BAC 1-11?

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Certainly looks like an older 737 wing to me

[MReyn24050]

I would suggest it is a Boeing 727 perhaps. See the link:-
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../8/0211826.jpg

This is an early 727 cabin:-
Photos: Boeing 727-22C Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

[con-pilot]

I'm with MReyn, it is a 727 wing. The angle of sweep back of the wing is not that evident because of the angle of the camera when the picture was taken.

As for the interior shot, looks like a standard Boeing cabin, 707, 727 or 737 cabin to me.

[Brian Abraham]

Hand up for 727 here. High speed aileron between inner and outer spoiler panels, and the wing sweep evident between the two groups of spoilers.

[Postfade]

I think your probably correct with the 727...but I'll leave it to you pilots to prove it.

Here's the wing of the Boeing 727 demonstrator N7003U when it visited Paya Lebar, Singapore in 1963.


I think this interior shot clinches it though.

David Taylor

More 60's Singapore aviation stills at www.focalplanes.co.uk

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

I think we can discount the Trident; (with thanks to Mr Rick Skoroszewski)



On the other hand, as MReyn24050 said, the B727; (with thanks to Mohammadreza Farhadi Aref)

[forget]

Scroll down to see some very interesting pics of N7003U's 1963 world tour.

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