Sic parvis magna: FGP 227, ¼ scale flying model built to provide data for the development of the BV 238.
Boating Flyer. Someone's been for a scramble in an Ekranoplan, and it's in surprisingly good nick inside: Belly Of The Beast: Illicit Photos From Inside The Soviet Ekranoplan
Impressive design and it had a clever beaching trolley it taxied into and when connected plane and trolley could taxi up the slipway and out of the water.
These pictures taken around mid 1930 of flying boats under construction on the Medway.(Own collection)
Golden Fleece, one of three long range G-Class boats taken onto service with the RAF. Seen at Rochester after being fitted with three four gun Boulton Paul turrets.
Prototype Short Shetland at far right, one of two built. Short Seaford fourth from right. The rest appear to be Sunderlands.
The impressive Convair Tradewind had it's career cut short by the unreliability of it's T40 turboprops.
Sunderland Flying Boat KB-A ? K8- A? Hard to make out the letters. Photo from my collection. Keith Close up
I agree. This is a photo of KG-F 204 Squadron taking off for compariosn of lettering. The curve at the top of the G looks kind of like the top curve of the second figure in the picture posted. At least on my crappy computer and with my old eyes
The book 'Last of the 39ers' about Alfie Fripp, by Sean Feast might be of interest. Billed as a POW book in the main but................... Alfie's story begins well before the outbreak of the Second World War. One of Trenchard's 'Brats', Alfie trained as a wireless operator before spending more than five years in various flying boat squadrons in the Far East. He was again one of the last survivors from the days of the mighty Southampton, Scapa and Singapore flying boats that ruled both the skies and the waves, and helped ensure the safety of the Empire.
That's a pretty powerful model to be pulling that woody Cracking photo Dave. Kind regards, always, Jim.
That really looks like an 8 to me. However, as far as I can see (well, Google) K8- would make it an aircraft of the Station Flight, RAF Wymeswold, a training base in Leicestershire - which doesn't seem at all likely! Hell of a coincidence if it isn't Orwell1984's 204 Sqdn, surely - yet I think it's an 8. Odd.
Yes, pretty good towing ability! Ford literature says that Ford V8 Woody had a top speed of about 75 MPH with standard rear end gearing. That big test rig must have slowed it down a lot. I wonder how much lift that model could generate and what its stall speed was.