Thanks, fuel tank the clincher. Once served on a squadron which not really many years previously had operated Vincents. Fewer years ago I saw the efforts at restoring a Vincebeest in a hangar at Wigram.

Regret waiting for wheels to an incarceration which for some time will restrict my recreational activity, so OH I fear.

You normally only serve a third of the sentence Jenkins ................ we'll come and visit you...............

What aircraft might this be a part of?


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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Some sort of dive bomber? Looks like the type of thing you saw on various ghastly naval types just before the start of WW2.................

Not WW2 and not naval.

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Could this be a Sunderland - the weapon is not the usual DC, but it does look like the wind out rack!

Bomb/rocket `crutches` on the `Scruggs Wonderplane`...?

Possibly a BE2C.

None of the aircraft mentioned - although not sure what a "Scruggs Wonderplane" is.

and what on earth is going on here?

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Taking the navigator for walkies.

its the bomb aimer - he walked out along the wing and used a screw driver to drop each bomb

some great answers here, keep it up :ok:

"This is left and this is right - got it ?"

"The new intercom system between navigator and pilot is tested before flight"

Jhieminga is very close.

I believe Chief Designer on the Scruggs Wonderplane project was none other than Roger Bacon...

I think Jhieminga is hot on the trail and this could be a sort of WW1 cavalier version of Bernie the Bolt - (left rein) left a bit, (right rein) right a bit, (both reins) DROP!

I like the Bernie the Bolt description.

Here it is in situ.
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Now for the aircraft.

DH-4 would be my suggestion - which would please Roger Bacon no end...

The struts remind me of the DH-9, but cockpit proximity probably mean the DH-4.

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"The US Mk5 bomb rack could carry 10 Mk II or II-A (22 lb; the II is high explosive and II-A is fragmentation)."