[Gort]

Originally Posted by jim

Thats cheating Gort, But I know what it is, a carrier plane (FAA) with a really brutal engine (contra prop). and I think it was the last piston carrier fighter/bomber the navy had.

There is one at the FAA at Yoevilton.

You're almost there, Jim, my boy! What's the name?????????

[jim]

Originally Posted by Gort

You're almost there, Jim, my boy! What's the name?????????

Its named after a heraldic bird. It was made by Westland and its called.............................. Wyvern.

Believe me Gort its a beast of a plane , a huge thing, the pilot gets vertigo even when its on the ground.

[Gort]

Originally Posted by jim

Its named after a heraldic bird. It was made by Westland and its called.............................. Wyvern.

Believe me Gort its a beast of a plane , a huge thing, the pilot gets vertigo even when its on the ground.

You got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jim]

Originally Posted by Gort

You got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah but I havnt put a name to that Far/vimy thingy yet, Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Gort]

Originally Posted by jim

Yeah but I havnt put a name to that Far/vimy thingy yet, Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

It was called the Vimmy--I’ve-got-big-engines-Wingy-Thingy.

[jim]

Originally Posted by Gort

It was called the Vimmy--I’ve-got-big-engines-Wingy-Thingy.

With a busted wheel thingy.

Boy its a difficult one, I am sure if I just get the brain working I should know this one.

[jim]

Curtis Condor?


No engines wrong, tut tut I thought I had it for a moment.

[flyXwire]

Originally Posted by Hoverbug

Try this one.

Would that be the Glenn Martin Bomber?

Glenn Martin GMB Bomber, 1936. The first US-designed bomber procured by the US Army in quantity in the World War I era. The US Army had previously purchased the English Handley-Page O/400 and Italian Caproni designs for construction by US builders with Liberty 12-A engines in place of the original engines

[jim]

FlyXwire, you are brilliant, no wonder I couldnt get the name, I had discount Glen Martin from my reckoning, I wouldnt have got it.

[STARMAN 352ND]

OK.....Try this one guys.

JP