Not a birthday in sight.
Comfort yourself with a nice cosy embroidered badge for this one. Oh, how parochial, I'm thinking of the local weather, top of 6°C today, and we've had snow flurries.
Hawker Dantorp , development of the Hawker Horsley for Danish Navy
Ttfn
Pete
What Pete said.
Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Dantorp
More views follow:
Note the open space between the floats to allow torpedo drops.
Congratulations to you, Pete, and thanks for participating You're going to need a big box to keep them all in:
Looked through the only source I have at my disposal (goggle images) but didn't see nary a one Dantorp.
I didn't have much confidence the sketch Mike posted was a Swordfish as the lower wing pictured has
a dihedral angle. But I threw my chip in, no question mark included
I don't think I'm going to participate in your contest again, Mike.
The pickings from goggle images is shite. Their algorithms are so facked up I got images of Volkswagens, bbq grills, and fighter jets searching for "biplanes with floats".
Oh I even got a picture of an actual rootbeer float . .. which actually pizzed me off. Because I have Dr. Brown's rootbeer in the fridge but no icecream in the freezer.
Have to admit, at first I thought it was another Fairey, the Gordon... ( named for Gordon of Khartoum) that led to Hawker Horsley, then the float version of same.
Ttfn
Pete
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