What would this be?

[Graham]

Hi guys need somehelp working out what has been flying round near my place.
I live on the North Coast of N.S.W Aus and has seen at night and once in the
day a large military transport flying bout , its biger than a C130,
propeller driven and has 6 engines. I know the C130 is the biggest we have
and i have not seen a 6 prop before.
Any help would be great.

[Nick Pedley]

"Graham" > wrote in message
...
> Hi guys need somehelp working out what has been flying round near my
place.
> I live on the North Coast of N.S.W Aus and has seen at night and once in
the
> day a large military transport flying bout , its biger than a C130,
> propeller driven and has 6 engines. I know the C130 is the biggest we have
> and i have not seen a 6 prop before.
> Any help would be great.

Didn't this get asked last year? I reckon it's a 4(four) engined flying boat
with floats on the wingtips which you are mistaking for engines.

HTH,
Nick

[Graham]

"Nick Pedley" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Graham" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi guys need somehelp working out what has been flying round near my
> place.
> > I live on the North Coast of N.S.W Aus and has seen at night and once in
> the
> > day a large military transport flying bout , its biger than a C130,
> > propeller driven and has 6 engines. I know the C130 is the biggest we
have
> > and i have not seen a 6 prop before.
> > Any help would be great.
>
> Didn't this get asked last year? I reckon it's a 4(four) engined flying
boat
> with floats on the wingtips which you are mistaking for engines.
>
> HTH,
> Nick
Sorry mate a few people have seen this and all say shes got 6 engines
has seen it from not far and its has got 6 engines. A mate herd bout some
Rusian thing that might be out here on trial?

[Chad Irby]

In article >,
"Graham" > wrote:

> Sorry mate a few people have seen this and all say shes got 6 engines
> has seen it from not far and its has got 6 engines. A mate herd bout some
> Rusian thing that might be out here on trial?

There have been very few six engine planes ever built, even fewer in the
last half-century, and only one or two of them would qualify as
"transports." Only one really big one had propellers, and it got broken
up for scrap before I was born.

More detail, please. For example: High-wing or low-wing monoplane?
Single or double tail? Cruciform or "T" tail? Turboprop or piston
engine? Tractor or pusher props? What color is it?

If it weren't for the "propeller" description, I'd start looking into
the whereabouts of one and only one aircraft: The Antonov-225. It's the
only big modern "transport" type plane with six engines that comes to
mind.

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[Tex Houston]

"Chad Irby" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Graham" > wrote:
> There have been very few six engine planes ever built, even fewer in the
> last half-century, and only one or two of them would qualify as
> "transports." Only one really big one had propellers, and it got broken
> up for scrap before I was born.


If you are referring to the Convair XC-99, it wasn't scrapped but is in San
Antonio, albeit in terrible shape.

Tex

[Phineas Pinkham]

"Nick Pedley" wrote in message > > > > Hi guys need somehelp working out
what has been flying round near my
> > > place.
> > > > I live on the North Coast of N.S.W Aus and has seen at night and
once
> in
> > > the
> > > > day a large military transport flying bout , its biger than a C130,
> > > > propeller driven and has 6 engines. I know the C130 is the biggest
we
> > have
> > > > and i have not seen a 6 prop before.
> > > > Any help would be great.


It is obviously our Saunders-Roe "Princess" which is currently on a
good-will tour of the Commonwealth.

[Chad Irby]

"Phineas Pinkham" > wrote:

> It is obviously our Saunders-Roe "Princess" which is currently on a
> good-will tour of the Commonwealth.

Awfully good comeback, considering it was supposedly scrapped in 1967...

Has anyone checked the hangar to see if someone's out joyriding in the
Spruce Goose?

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[Keith Willshaw]

"Phineas Pinkham" > wrote in message
...
>

>
> It is obviously our Saunders-Roe "Princess" which is currently on a
> good-will tour of the Commonwealth.
>
>

Only in the form of recycled aluminium, it was scrapped
30+ years ago

Keith

[Token]

"Graham" > wrote in message
...
> Hi guys need somehelp working out what has been flying round near my
place.
> I live on the North Coast of N.S.W Aus and has seen at night and once in
the
> day a large military transport flying bout , its biger than a C130,
> propeller driven and has 6 engines. I know the C130 is the biggest we have
> and i have not seen a 6 prop before.
> Any help would be great.
>
>

Possibly a KC-130. The KC-130 has only 4 engines, but the underwing pods
often are mistaken for engines.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/kc-130-ifr.jpg
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/kc-130-goingri.jpg

T!

[Tank Fixer]

In article >,
says...
> "Phineas Pinkham" > wrote:
>
> > It is obviously our Saunders-Roe "Princess" which is currently on a
> > good-will tour of the Commonwealth.
>
> Awfully good comeback, considering it was supposedly scrapped in 1967...
>
> Has anyone checked the hangar to see if someone's out joyriding in the
> Spruce Goose?
>
>

I'll look tomorrow as I'm driving past there on the way to the
beach...


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[Ed Majden]

"Nick Pedley" > If it's a six engined propellor flying boat, then the only
one I've heard of
> is the Blohm and Voss BV222, all of which were destroyed in WW2.
> http://www.seawings.co.uk/IM-reviewpage-BV-222.htm
>

The Brits built a 10-engined flying boat, Saunders-Roe, the Princes
which flew in 1952. Messerschmitt built the six engined ME 323 transport.
I vaguely recall seeing a large German bomber capable of crossing the
Atlantic, a bomber threat to North America. The Russians also built an
Ilyushin 5-engine transport. I'm sure there must be others. Probably not
modern types however.

[Chad Irby]

In article >,
"Ed Majden" > wrote:

> The Brits built a 10-engined flying boat, Saunders-Roe, the Princes
> which flew in 1952. Messerschmitt built the six engined ME 323 transport.
> I vaguely recall seeing a large German bomber capable of crossing the
> Atlantic, a bomber threat to North America. The Russians also built an
> Ilyushin 5-engine transport. I'm sure there must be others. Probably not
> modern types however.

None of the big planes with six or more engines seem to be in flight
condition nowadays. Except, of course, for the Antonov 225.

Odds are that the plane that started this thread was a C-130 with tanker
pods, and a misidentification by a ground observer.

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