Thank you sir.
What kind of thoughts does this spring to mind?

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....acdc00f50b.jpg

My initial reaction was the York but the engines are wrong of course

perhaps the Breguet 763 Deux Ponts?

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cf3341055c.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ac2cfa2b46.jpg

I presume it did fly?

indeed it did.

C87 Liberator Express?
I doubt it as wing root looks wrong

Perhaps Boeing 377 Stratocruiser?

- Ed

One asks to identify the most produced sweep wing fighter jet in the world and suppose it gets hit in a whiplash. But is not.
Then one asks to identify a very rare transport AC of the 1950's (only 12 built before going into oblivion), and it is identified in a flash.
Funny when you think of it.

So it was Asturias56 that came with the correct answer in a flash: Bréguet 763 Provence also known as the "Deux-Ponts".
Noyade being kind enough to provide blueprints as well.

Asturias56, well done, your call!

This is indeed true - - I think we're a bunch of enthusiasts and any enthusiast (see Twitchers) is FAR more interested in the one-off "failure" rather than the vast swarms of the successful.

In my case I think it was all those early Observers etc books of the early '60's - they were desperate to pad themselves out and so when it came to Transports- France - ??? there was only the Nor-atlas and the Deux Ponts


I don't think this one has appeared:-

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....86b3ed1a7e.jpg

designed with the help of a major manufacturer from another country - only 1 built I think as obsolescent by the time it was completed - tho the protoype flew for another 12 years or so so obviously well built

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....225431591a.jpg

Are we in Japan, looking at a Naval aircraft?

not Japan - in fact a long flight from Japan..... the aircraft was designed to be multi-role - land, naval and float. Not sure if it ever tested in any of the watery roles .

I think the intent was to start with an order of 18 but it never made it

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....fd0314e0fe.jpg
A type currently in service....

Beluga. Airbus answer to SuperGuppy and Dreamlifter-



OH if correct

Sorry guys - no-one has answer my challenge of 14th March......................... :bored:

Sorry I did not have much time to search yet,

Actually I thought the moderator had posted the beluga as a hint to your challenge?

It's OK - all sorted - confusion over the "rules"

try this picture - there si a small clue in it................
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c566477b0a.jpg

Latin America?

Are those gentlemen African?

No - definitely no! And not Latin America either - Europe - in every sense of the word...................

Look closely folks!