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This time it's one that I know.

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First one to get it right gets the cookie of ultimate tastiness.

Would you like me to do this on a weekly basis? Say so, or not so.

An oldie but a goodie:



If you have to cheat, don't tell everybody.

Jesus christ.. it looks like a prototype for the flying fortress before they even had flying flying military planes!

Looks like some species of Italian Caproni bomber, maybe a Ca.4 or 6 or some version of it? I thought it might be a Ca.33 or 36 at first, but I don't think it's got the middle wing. The only reason I know is because I used to be heavily into FS2000 and Combat Flight Sim, trying to make models with Flightshop and X-plane. You can't beat the old 'Knights of the Sky' on the Amiga though, best flight game ever. What a bizarre looking beast this one is, and what a size! It's a wonder it ever got off the ground.

Kenny_10_Bellys, by the power vested in me by myself, I present you with..........a cookie!
A Caproni Ca-4 it is. And not only did it get off the ground, it was a fully combat capable aircraft. Basis for the more powerfull and well known Ca-42.

Next Monday, we'll have a ship.

Well that's no good, I know sod all about ships! Well, not completely, I'm not too bad on Russian Submarines of the cold war period. Hey, are you sure this is a Ca4, the only photos I've seen of one had another pontoon or fairing down between the wheels?

Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:Well that's no good, I know sod all about ships! Well, not completely, I'm not too bad on Russian Submarines of the cold war period. Hey, are you sure this is a Ca4, the only photos I've seen of one had another pontoon or fairing down between the wheels?

This is a Ca-43:



And a few Ca-42s:

http://pilots-n-planes-ww1.com/Triplane ... -42_01.jpg

And the hair-raising Ca-60, a converted houseboat.

http://pilots-n-planes-ww1.com/Triplane ... -Ca-60.jpg

[Oy! No huge inline images, please. Read the rules announcement. --Enlightenment]

God that Ca-60 was a laugh!

I can't believe some of those things got off the ground, it's incredible! Must have been on acid when they designed the 60 though, that was just NEVER going to happen.

The Ca-60 was an attempt to create a trans-Atlantic airliner. It was based on the hull of a houseboat, that to quote a lost book of mine, "could have happily plied the waters of lake Maggiore had Count Caproni not had the urge to fly it across the Atlantic". On it's first test "flight" it actually got a couple feet in the air before disintegrating.

Post more! I need to put my big book of aircraft to use... Got it from some museum when I was a 6 year old.

I intend to. But Enlightenment asked me to limit this to a once a week thang, for a couple reasons, and I'd hate to run out of my goodies too fast. That, and there are only so many obscure planes in the world, and if you haven't noticed, there's a few smart cookies around here. I wouldn't want to make it too easy for 'em.

(edit) That's also why I will be including ships, tanks, and cars. More diversity means longer lived idea.

A week is a rough guideline but go ahead and post another one if this one's finished with and the people are asking for more. I just don't want several of these things running at once for fear of boring or annoying the readers.