An Easy Plane Picture Quiz
 

I think that this plane will be very easy to identify.

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http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/q24.jpg

I think it could be a SNCASO SO 30P Bretagne.

First flew 11th Dec. 1947. 45 built. Flew with Air France, Air Algerie and Air Maroc.

Clint.

Nah,
It's one of those 'airplanes (sic) of the future' from the 1930s pulp magazines. :D
Cheers
James K

I'd say it is rather the SO-30 N "Bellatrix" prototype of the "Bretagne"

main differences are engines (Gnôme&Rhône vs P&W) and the fins

large Pdf document (1.3 MB) with a Bellatrix pic

The Bretagne

Looks as though a hint is needed.
 

I had thought that this would be an easy quiz since the exact plane in the picture (after some modification) was flown by BOAC .... according to references.

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Now, I knows you'll think I's darft... but...

Not a early twin-tailed version of the Curtiss C-46 perchance?

Everything looks about right apart from the engines (a bit small?) and the tail. And I believe BOAC operated a few camoflagued examples during the war.

I have a book on the C-46 in the loft, but it's late and I'm too knackered to research it now!

I'll declare Treadigraph the winner, although it's the CW20T/C55. I thought that the cockpit window configuration would identify the plane as a C46 variation.

The references say that the twin tail was replaced by a single fin as a result of flight tests.

The single (modified) prototype was delivered to the US Army as the C55. I gather there was only a single C55. It was eventually delivered to BOAC in 1942 and used for something over a year. I'm pretty sure that it had a single tail fin by the time it reached BOAC.

Production models became the C46.

http://www.microworks.net/pacific/av...c_commando.htm

http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=171

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