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[Alfie Noakes]

.......ah, all quiet on the western front.....

Looks like there's no fish balloon experts available, so I'll reveal all....

The first one is a project suggested by M de Saint-Just in 1784 on seeing the Montgolfier brothers first attempt
He thought making the balloon like a fish would increase it's speed & maneuverability.......forgot to add landing gear     FAIL

The second one is the Pauly & Egg Dolphin ( I'm not making this up)
Made by S.J Pauly and Durs Egg in 1816 in Knightsbridge England. It was 90ft long 24ft wide and 30ft high filled with Hydrogen
Was propelled and steered by oars  and had a movable weight on a line from the car to the tail for balancing
Unfortunately Pauly died before the ship was completed and the project was abandoned     FAIL

I originally thought oars would be rubbish to steer and propel any sort of flying machine......and then I saw this

https://www.festo.com/group/en/cms/10224.htm

Perhaps Pauly & Egg were right after all   

Anyway, enough of this piscean diversion 

OPEN HOUSE

[sniperton]

Looks like there's no fish balloon experts available, so I'll reveal all....

Sorry, Alfie, I mistook them for pure phantasy illustrations and misregarded the option they represented something real... 

The fish balloon concept does work, see here some remote controlled ones:


 

[vonofterdingen]

My cats would love this!

[P51vsFw190]

Since we’ve gotten far off topic, allow me to bring us back to the root of this great thread.

Try this:





James

[Gaston]

Italian ?

[SAS~Storebror]

The girl in the back?

[Radoye]

I've seen this before, isn't this an experimental development of the Il-2 - can't remember the correct designation, obviously it was a developmental dead end and not many were produced?

[P51vsFw190]

Radoye is the closest so far.

It is Soviet, it is an improvement over the Il-2 and it goes by the exact same designation as another Ilyushin design similar to the Lockheed 188.

[SAS~Storebror]

It is Soviet

Olga, master butcher from Владивосток



Mike

[BalDaddy]

Phwoarr...I would

[Graeme]

I'm sure her axe is somewhere in the rear cockpit...

[SAS~Storebror]

Almost right.

1: Igor. He's in love with Olga.


2: Meat storage
3: Olga
4: Mincer
5: Meat ball throwers
6: Igor's fart exhaust
7: Olga's fart exhaust
8: Cesspit


Mike