Old French Aircraft HUGE Transport

Probably a Breguet Provence, also known as Deux-Ponts- big double-decker. Ugly as sin.

A "Sahara" perhaps? Big, low-winged, 4-engines, porcine fuselage? Don McIntyre Clarksville, TN

That's a Provence by any other name, and there were many more than one of them...

I think "Porcine" is an entirely too polite description-

Indeed. "French" is quite enough...

Actually, only 16 altogether. Still, they spent the better part of twenty years in service, so they wouldn't have been all that rare.

Less likely candidates for the mystery ship are the SNCASE Armagnac (9 built, though only slightly larger han a DC-4), the Late 631 (7 built, but a flying boat, so probably not) or one that's not even French, the BZ 308 (Italian transport with four Bristol Centaurus driving five-bladed props; pretty damn big and one-of-a kind, but certainly not French).

Mark Schynert

AFAIC, only one Latecore 631 survived the war, and was used on the France-Indochina run until about 1948 or so. Six engines, a beautiful sleek fuselage (imagine a stretch Boeing 314), one of the most graceful airplanes built. The Sahara looked like cross between a Lockheed Constellation and a flounder. Kim M

Yeah, love to have one but doubt we'll ever see it kitted. Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Contrail 1/72 scale vacuform.

Tom

The Latecoere? Lovely, I got a Ju-290 and a Bv-222 injected to finish before I tackle that one! Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Didn't Mach 2 have an injected one?

Maiesm72 wrote:

There's a nice build article of it in the latest SAMI.

Nope.

If they did someone here would build it, thereby guarenteeing a good injection molded kit within a month of completion. :-)

Tom