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Old 04-26-2007, 04:38 PM
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Default uhmmmmm...

What they ^^^^^^ said.


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Old 04-27-2007, 01:20 AM
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Hey! I know that photo! It came from here:

Warbird Alley's "Meyers OTW" page

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Old 04-27-2007, 09:06 PM
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Default Round 4

You got round 3. Here is round 4.
This is a two part question. What is this aircraft and why is it famous?

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Old 04-27-2007, 09:31 PM
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Navy-Curtiss NC-4 Flying Boat

The NC-4, a United States Navy flying boat constructed in 1918 by the Glenn Curtiss Company, was the first aircraft ever to complete a successful flight across the Atlantic Ocean.


NC-4 departs Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland for the first flight to Europe. Photo? L. D. Sheely.
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Old 04-28-2007, 01:58 PM
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I believe this plane, or a sister ship, is hanging in the USN museum PNS.

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Old 04-28-2007, 03:41 PM
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Ok Guys, name this plane:


[IMG][/IMG]
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Old 04-28-2007, 04:38 PM
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Looks Culver Cadet-ish.
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Old 04-28-2007, 05:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by painless
Ok Guys, name this plane:


[IMG][/IMG]
Culver V, but I cheated. I thought it was a Culver V, but you didn't obscure the N number. Google, you know.
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Old 04-28-2007, 05:49 PM
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Default Ok, I've got one

Shortly after I moved to Carlsbad, in about 1981, I noticed this exact airplane based on a farm near Loving, New Mexico, at a short dirt strip.

A few years later the airplane turned up in the backyard of my next door neighbor in Carlsbad, where it remained for a number of years.

A few years later it was displayed atop a business in Carlsbad, NM.

My understanding is that it is now near Lakewood, NM.

What is it?

I'm sorry I had to steal this from a website, to maintain the mystery. In all those years I never took a picture of the airplane. I will link to the website when necessary.

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Old 04-28-2007, 05:53 PM
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Wrong Guys. Sort of a late April Fools joke. This is an original design homebuilt called a Stewart 265. You are correct tho in that it is Culver-esque.

Don Stewart, the designer, had it at OSH one year and had a ball with guys coming up to him and saying "I took my training in that airplane back in '34..."
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