Who / What / Where Game Part 2

[Jimbuna]

A couple of gins too many on the first day and the metal leg of a sun lounger took advantage of me :oops:

[Aktungbby]

:hmmm::timeout:....sounds like Ginginiloveu...without Zulus, but wounds nonetheless??!:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Gin is much preferred to dark rum but only whilst on holiday in a hot climate :03:

[Aktungbby]

...just keep the game going; a 'giveaway' hint: the company that built this automobile also built convoy cargo ships in/during WWII.

[Jimbuna]

Ford?

[Aktungbby]

nope

[mapuc]

Did this company built Liberty ships ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

nope! Big Giveaway Hint: this is a car Wilhelm II might have appreciated:shucks: PS: what happend to your left fetlock?:timeout: YES!
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=9922just like this one i got a shot of while sailing that's in my :subsim: photo album RED OAK VICTORY as seen during refit at merchant marine Academy just opposite Mare Island a genuine Victory merchant from WWII; I spotted her from the sailboat and couldn't believe my eyes: hasty flip phone pic or it didn't happen!...now pair it with my previous Big Hint above, and you're dead on the scent! https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.13a80f21c9ee18a47f03e29b3a4f6291?rik=e3i8KdeGnCU QOw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fclipartmag.com%2fimage%2fbloodhou nd-drawing-14.jpg&ehk=%2bUlJk8JOYHvof2WxvjZhwEVxc2gtybI5R7kYmJxJ7AM% 3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0:salute:

[mapuc]

A name came up
Henry J. Kaiser. and following could be read on wiki page

He led Kaiser-Frazer followed by Kaiser Motors, automobile companies known for the safety of their designs.

Here's a wiki page about this automobile companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Motors

Markus

[Jimbuna]

1953 Kaiser Manhattan?

[Aktungbby]

close, but this '53 model was 'in its own right' and not a style option variant of the Manhattan. My Brooklyn, NY grandfather owned one!:yeah:

[Jimbuna]

1953 Kaiser Custom 6?

[Aktungbby]

nope...this model could 'fly and breath fire"...and featured Bambu vinyl...:shucks:

[Jimbuna]

Kaiser Dragon?

[Aktungbby]

Bingo! Over to you!:salute:

[Jimbuna]

Put a name to this.

https://i.postimg.cc/T1yFtzBj/blob.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Aktungbby]

Rolls Royce armoured car?

[Jimbuna]

Not a million miles away.

[mapuc]

I think we are in the neighbourhood of artillery.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

WWII?

[Jimbuna]

I think we are in the neighbourhood of artillery.

Markus

Wrong neighbourhood.

[Jimbuna]

WWII?

Prior and during.

[Aktungbby]

...in a museum visited by you?

[Jimbuna]

Yes but I never realised at the time of posting.

[Catfish]

Six wheels?

[Jimbuna]

Six wheels?

Yep :)

[Aktungbby]

British?

[Ostfriese]

Lanchester 6x4? One of them is in the Bovington Tank Museum.

[Jimbuna]

British?

Yes.

[Jimbuna]

Lanchester 6x4? One of them is in the Bovington Tank Museum.

The last surviving one :up:

Over to you :salute:

https://i.postimg.cc/tT2NnC8N/Lanchester-6x4-armoured-car.jpg (https://postimg.cc/7GJ2pDH5)

[Ostfriese]

Let's go upwards:



https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1443&pictureid=13585
What aircraft is that?

(additional information: the aircraft in the picture is a replica)

[Jimbuna]

British?

[Ostfriese]

British?


Not British.

[Jimbuna]

American?

[Aktungbby]

1950's?

[Ostfriese]

Not American, and not from the 1950s.

[Jimbuna]

Single jet engine?

[Ostfriese]

Single jet engine?


Yes.

[Jimbuna]

Chinese?

[Ostfriese]

Chinese?
Not Chinese.

[Catfish]

Before 1950?

[Ostfriese]

Before 1950?


Yes.

[Catfish]

Then I know it :03:

[Catfish]

Heinkel HE 178, world's first jet airplane flown in 1939 by Erich Warsitz, test pilot of the Heinkel works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_178

[Ostfriese]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Flughafen_Rostock-Laage1.JPG


Exactly, the first aircraft to ever conduct a completely jet-powered flight, even before WW2. In this case it's the replica from Rostock-Laage airport (the original was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943.


Over to you.

[Catfish]

The canopy's form was the decisive hint :)

Will have something shortly

[Catfish]

Should not be tooo difficult, but ...

https://i.postimg.cc/ZYV2rfQt/x-deetale.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Aktungbby]

JUMO engines?

[Catfish]

I don't know whether this one on the photo used them :hmmm:
Will try to find out..

[Catfish]

^ ^ cannot find out which plane version it exactly is, but the prototype versions were tested with I think four different engine types, one version used Junkers engines.
edit: posting exact version not necessary, general type is enough.

Another hint: there were quite a lot 'firsts', on this type.

[Aktungbby]

did it occasionally schwalbe or sturmvogel? :timeout:

[Catfish]

^ No..

[Aktungbby]

Heinkel 280??...:hmmm:

[Catfish]

:up: That's the one!

https://i.postimg.cc/Sx1G01Zw/Heinkel-He-280-Archiv-Eberhard-Kranz.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

First armed jet aircraft, first ejection seat, first jet with tricycle gear and a lot of other new ideas (the version #8 had a V-shaped tail), jets thought out at Goettingen by Mr. Ohain and Heinkel as financier.
The plane layout was rather conventional, so it would have been easier to build, also Ohain's centrifugal jet layout would have made the jets smaller with a still higher output than the also-tested central-axis Junkers, BMW, Argus or other available jet engines of the time.

The Heinkel-Hirth He S8A jets designed by Ohain used conventional metals instead of rare alloys due to a clever cooling layout, but had teething problems, so the successor S11 jet was under construction – when the RLM decided to push the construction of the ME 262 and the JuMo engines, and scrapped the HE 280.
Meserschmitt then began to invent the ME 262, from scratch.

Heinkel often criticized the Reichs-Luftfahrt ministry and was not liked much by the leading nazi class, and while he was not jewish they often spoke of "the jew Heinkel", so this may also have been one of the unreasonable reasons.

https://i.postimg.cc/KYKDm7w4/he280-4.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Over to Aktungbby :salute:

[Aktungbby]

what's this gismo?https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=13586

[mapuc]

Seems to recall it-I know I have seen it in a science program.

It belong to NASA ?

Markus

[Catfish]

A meat grinder to produce soylent green? :oops:

Ok then seriously: Is it some entertainment structure?

[Aktungbby]

Seems to recall it-I know I have seen it in a science program.

It belong to NASA ?

Markus:hmmm: not that I'm aware of

A meat grinder to produce soylent green? :oops:

Ok then seriously: Is it some entertainment structure?...it is certainly entertaining when in use:o

[Catfish]

[...] It belong to NASA ?
Markus
[COLOR="ruby"]:hmmm: not that I'm aware of [...]
But it does :hmmm:
At least it volleyed some NASA equipment .. 'Spinlaunch', that is.

https://www.spinlaunch.com/

[Aktungbby]

Too easy! Over to you!:salute:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.postimg.cc/KYKDm7w4/he280-4.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Over to Aktungbby :salute:

Bummer - I haven't been following this thread lately or I would've got this straight away lol. Here's a model I built some years ago of the He280 - there were a number of configurations in design as well as powerplant tried out on the early aircraft - this one had a rather pretty "butterfly" tail

https://i.imgur.com/3f2BarS.jpeg

[Catfish]

^ indeed I thought you to be the first poster, but Aktung is actually good at these :haha:

@Aktung yes the last one was too easy, especially after the invention of Google lens :D

Ok, what is this .. ?

https://i.postimg.cc/W1p8ZhbV/deeetale.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Eichhörnchen]

Is this on the water?

[Catfish]

No. But this may be misleading :D

[Eichhörnchen]

In that case could it be a bridge?

[Catfish]

Not a bridge.

Hint: on the photo it is not on the water, but it was designed to be there, if not all of the time.

[Aktungbby]

metal?

[Catfish]

Yes, metal.

[Aktungbby]

does it fly?

[Jimbuna]

A dock gate?

[Catfish]

does it fly?
It did.

A dock gate?
So, no.

[Jimbuna]

An airliner?

[Catfish]

^ Yes.

[Jimbuna]

German?

[Catfish]

Not german, but the latter was involved for a shorter time.

[Jimbuna]

Russian?

[Catfish]

Not russian

[Jimbuna]

American? :)

[Catfish]

American? :)
Afraid not.
Mais les américains ont aussi construit des avions similaires :D

[Eichhörnchen]

short Mayo flying boats - looks like several lined up

[Catfish]

^ Never heard of this Mayo :o, and it is not the one in the picture.

But a flying boat it is –

[Eichhörnchen]

Short Brothers built these flying-boat airliners through the '30s - was this made by Short Bros (Rochester)? I should have called it a "Short Empire" flying boat

[Aktungbby]

Short S-33 Empire flying boat?

[Catfish]

Sorry, but not a Short, and (hint) not english!

[Aktungbby]

Not german, but the latter was involved for a shorter time.https://hushkit.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-4.png?w=1024:yeah:The German occupiers were impressed by the aircraft and seized it, taking it to Lake Constance in Germany for assessment. It was here that it was destroyed by RAF Mosquitoes. Four other airframes survived for a short time at Marignane, but one was wrecked by a USAAF raid that also severely damaged the other three. SE.200 Amphitrite

[Catfish]

^ this is very very close, but no cigar. :)

[Aktungbby]

https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/French-extremes.jpg Latécoère 631

[Jimbuna]

Dornier Do X?

[Catfish]

Dornier Do X?
Not german

Latécoère 631
That's the one!

https://i.postimg.cc/DzyrSD6w/631-3.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

https://i.postimg.cc/Njx8fY1n/631-2.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

The Latécoère 631 was developed before WW2 and and built in 1938, beginning with trials. During the war, Germany took one of the planes to Lake Constance (Like the 'Amphitrite'), where it was destroyed by an allied air raid.
After the war the project was continued, but the 631 had a lot of problems, leading to crashes and many casualties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_SAZq9LvwQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGd90_lIbpY


Just for the looks .. (I guess the location far ahead from 9:45 on and landing could be Port de Soller):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZnegmxSQ48

Over to Aktung :salute:

[Aktungbby]

but Aktung is actually good at these :haha:
JEEZE! two aeronautical wins in a row! :yeah:...I'll have something (hopefully more difficult) shortly.:O:

[Aktungbby]

Shortly: What's this? https://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=13587

[Jimbuna]

Any connection with space?

[Catfish]

German?

[Aktungbby]

Any connection with space?:hmmm:...in response to your question, as asked, the upper reaches of the skies at least...but not intended for earth orbits or the moon.

German?...should've been; but wasn't.:D

[Catfish]

Liquid fuel rocket drive in 1939?
Experimental Heinkel 176?

[Aktungbby]

...nope to both questions; this used a Rolls Royce turbojet, had ceiling of 30,000ft and flew once in the 1950s before both it and its intended successor were bugetarily cancelled to save pesos ca: 1960.

[Jimbuna]

British?

[Eichhörnchen]

TSR-2 ?

[Jimbuna]

TSR-2 ?

I'd considered that but she had 2xBristol Siddeley B.Ol.22R Olympus Mk.320 afterburning turbojet engines and a ceiling of 40-50000ft

[Aktungbby]

British?nope

TSR-2 ?nope

I'd considered that but she had 2xBristol Siddeley B.Ol.22R Olympus Mk.320 afterburning turbojet engines and a ceiling of 40-50000ft BIG HINT: when I said ' save pesos', I really meant it!:shucks: Plus, anyone climbing into the cockpit of this experimental fighter would have to be seriously prone to flying.

[Jimbuna]

Mexican?

[Aktungbby]

Think Magellan Strait

[Catfish]

Hm. Argentine ? But this not the Pulqi II..

[Aktungbby]

Hm. Argentine ? But this not the Pulqi II..nope! But you're very close.

[Catfish]

FMA I.Ae. 37, Experimental jet fighter developed in Argentina during the 1950s ?

[Buddahaid]

That has to be it. :up:

[Aktungbby]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Ia_37_I.jpgTHAT"S The one; over to you! anyone climbing into the cockpit of this experimental fighter would have to be seriously prone to flying. The I.Ae. 37 project was initiated by Reimar Horton around 1952, following the cancellation of his previous flying wing projects in 1951. This design was a single-engine jet fighter, incorporating a Delta wing flying wing structure, with engine inlets positioned laterally on each side of the nose.
Wind tunnel testing commenced in 1953, along with tests on scale models at speeds of up to 200 km/h (120 mph). A full-scale glider prototype was constructed and took its maiden flight on October 1, 1954. In a unique design feature, the pilot lay prone, viewing through the clear nose of the aircraft.
The glider’s flight performance was assessed as excellent, leading to the commencement of a prototype powered by a Rolls-Royce Derwent V engine in 1955. This engine was chosen for its availability, despite not meeting the desired thrust for the fighter. My next big hint woulda been: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/HortonHearsAWhoBookCover.jpg:O: https://www.destinationsjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ia37-4.jpg.0f18e098a67670c5799b0b066dfde3a8.jpgThe cockpit was later altered to permit a conventional sitting pilot.

[Catfish]

Never heard of Horton and his life after WW2, this was completly new to me..

I cannot post something new here, this is a chore with a mobile and internet is also bad here; so maybe someone else cam chime in?

Thanks and greetings :)

[Jimbuna]

Okay Kai

What is this?

https://i.postimg.cc/gjk9t9wc/fffff.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Jimbuna]

Is this any better?

https://i.postimg.cc/8ktC73Zb/fffff.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Aktungbby]

Yes; My tablet(rather than my compter) was a little slow with the initial photo:timeout:...is this a space related object?

[Jimbuna]

Not space related.

[Aktungbby]

a vehicle?

[Jimbuna]

Sure is and quite a fast one.

[Aktungbby]

British?

[Jimbuna]

Not originally but there are quite a few in Britain as well as other countries.

CLUE: Hong Kong also have some.

[Eichhörnchen]

Looks like a motorcycle

[Aktungbby]

R900RTP BMW police motorcycle?

[Jimbuna]

Looks like a motorcycle

It is.

When in uniform I thought of a change to another unit so went for a test ride and felt seriously vulnerable and eventually decided against it.

What make and model though?

[Jimbuna]

R900RTP BMW police motorcycle?

Sooooo very close...right manufacturer but wrong model.

[Eichhörnchen]

R1250 RT-P ?

[Jimbuna]

R1250 RT-P ?

That's the one :up:

https://i.postimg.cc/Xq2Lc9nH/29887579198-12b7075058-z.jpg (https://postimages.org/)mechanical keyboard tester (https://keyboardtester.co/)

Over to you :salute:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/vyQ4E4m.jpeg What's this?

[mapuc]

Part of a car-Most likely an air intake ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

Not a car

[Aktungbby]

That's the one :up:

https://i.postimg.cc/Xq2Lc9nH/29887579198-12b7075058-z.jpg (https://postimages.org/)mechanical keyboard tester (https://keyboardtester.co/)

Over to you :salute::hmmm: well... I knew I had a choice twixt just two models; and chose the "lesser of two weevils" one 'cause I figured you'd probably ridden one in your 'seriously vulnerable' police career, and couldn't possibly handle a 1250 :O:...but any time I can lead Eich to the 'promised land'...my mission is accomplished!:yeah::arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

:hmmm: well... I knew I had a choice twixt just two models; and chose the "lesser of two weevils" one 'cause I figured you'd probably ridden one in your 'seriously vulnerable' police career, and couldn't possibly handle a 1250 :O:...but any time I can lead Eich to the 'promised land'...my mission is accomplished!:yeah::arrgh!:

Truth is I was only interested in the bike section because there were no vacancies in the traffic section at the time.

[Jimbuna]

Is there a musical connection?

[Eichhörnchen]

No - unless the bloke operating it was singing

[Jimbuna]

Agriculture connection?

[Eichhörnchen]

^
Nope

[mapuc]

Is this object part of a bigger thing who is placed on water ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

^
Nope

[mapuc]

Is it part of an airplane ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

^
Nope

[Jimbuna]

Does it fly?

[Eichhörnchen]

No it doesn't - getting a bit warmer though

[Jimbuna]

Part of a ventilation system?

[Eichhörnchen]

^
Nope

[Jimbuna]

I'm out of ideas so hopefully someone else can have a go :)

[Eichhörnchen]

Clue:

Another scrap

https://i.imgur.com/yQn4Lk0.jpeg

[mapuc]

Is it a train ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes

[Aktungbby]

diesel engine?

[Eichhörnchen]

^
No, not diesel

[Aktungbby]

electric?

[Eichhörnchen]

No, not this one

[Catfish]

Steam?

[Eichhörnchen]

^
Nope

[mapuc]

I think it was running on gasturbine

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

First prototypes were gas turbine powered. It would seem that this one was powered by turbojet

[Aktungbby]

full size or miniature?

[Eichhörnchen]

Full size - there were two, both still preserved

[Catfish]

Made in Trance :p

[Aktungbby]

Made in Trance :p https://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2015-02/1424141552_aerotrain.jpg Voila!:|\\

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/FV42nBy.jpeg

Correct - prize goes to Vinny. If you google, there's a highly entertaining video on there called "Hunt for the Aerotrain"

If I'd led with the cockpit photo I could've probably kept this going since everyone would've assumed it to be a plane, but I'll probably only be here in fits & starts until the weekend

[Aktungbby]

Catfish entranced me to victory!:yeah: I seem to recall the puzzle-vehicle's overhead monorail being used in this game previously.:hmmm: I'll post something shortly...when I :-j come out of my trance... :o

[Aktungbby]

What' this https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=13589

[Catfish]

BV 141?

[Aktungbby]

nope...

[Catfish]

Twin engine plane?

[Aktungbby]

yes...occasionally using Pratt &Whitney SB4-G Wasp Junior motors.

[Catfish]

So, a US plane?

[Aktungbby]

nope

[Ostfriese]

Canadian (or British built and used by the RCAF)?

[Jimbuna]

Finnish?

[Aktungbby]

Canadian (or British built and used by the RCAF)?nope...Spain and Sweden placed orders for the fomidable aircraft though.

Finnish?nope...but it did shoot Danish Madsen 23mm cannons and had a machine gun in the "rear turret". It also utilized the Bristol Mercury VIII engines.

[Ostfriese]

An unusual variant of a Dutch Fokker G.I? Observation aircraft, maybe?

[Aktungbby]

Indeed!...the belly 'bathtub' could be removed to allow a bombbay. The Fokker GI was a formidable ground support twin-tail 'forked-tailed devil'. (Before the US P-38 Lightning.?!)The production was taken over by the invading Germans who used them as training aircraft. One escaped to England in 1940, during the Nazi invasion of Holland, where its wooden wings were scrutinized by British airplane manufacturers. A replica exists in a Dutch air museum. Over to Ostfriese :salute:

[Ostfriese]

That bathtub kept me off the track for quite a while.


Anyway, what's this?
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1443&pictureid=13591

[Aktungbby]

That bathtub kept me off the track for quite a while....as intended:yeah::03:


Anyway, what's this?
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1443&pictureid=13591 A vessel??

[Ostfriese]

If you want "vessel" as a synonyme for "watercraft" then yes.

[Aktungbby]

WWI?

[Catfish]

re the Fokker G1 I first thought of two photos, good one

^ not a plane?
Lol

Ok, german?

[Ostfriese]

WWI?


Later


re the Fokker G1 I first thought of two photos, good one

^ not a plane?
Lol

Ok, german?


Not German

[mapuc]

French ?

Markus

[Ostfriese]

French ?

Markus


Not French.

[Jimbuna]

A British warship?

[Eichhörnchen]

That looks like a US sailor manning that gun?

[Ostfriese]

A British warship?


Warship yes, British no.

[Ostfriese]

That looks like a US sailor manning that gun?


While I can't rule out the possibility I'd say it would have been very, VERY unlikely for a US soldier to have been aboard.

[Aktungbby]

1940's?

[Jimbuna]

Italian Navy?

[Ostfriese]

1940's?


Active during the 1940s, yes.


Italian Navy?


No, not Italian.

[Catfish]

Japanese - ?

[Ostfriese]

Japanese - ?


Not Japanese.

[mapuc]

Russian ?

Markus

[Ostfriese]

Russian ?



Indeed.

[Aktungbby]

Black Sea fleet?

[Ostfriese]

Black Sea fleet?


The one in the picture was not in the Black Sea fleet, but sister ships from the same class were.

[mapuc]

I say Baltic fleet ?

Markus

[Ostfriese]

I say Baltic fleet ?

Markus


The one in the picture was indeed commissioned into the Baltic Fleet.


Addendum: it doesn't matter if you give me the name of the ship or of the class - the ship in the picture is the first in it's class, the class is named after her.

[Aktungbby]

https://wowsp-wows-na.wgcdn.co/dcont/fb/image/2020f696-fb59-11e5-86b1-d89d6715223c.jpg Kirov class cruisr

[Ostfriese]

There we are, it is indeed Kirov herself :Kaleun_Applaud:
Over to you.

[Aktungbby]

What's this? https://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=13593

[Ostfriese]

Experimental aircraft?

[Aktungbby]

of course!:yep::doh::p2::smug:

[Jimbuna]

Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak?

[Ostfriese]

Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak?
That should be it :)

[Aktungbby]

That's it! Over to Jimbuna.:salute: ( Too easy. I prefer the red ones myself:O:)

[Jimbuna]

What is this?

https://i.postimg.cc/zB7jkR2v/fffff.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Ostfriese]

1920s car?

[mapuc]

Military ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

old police car?

[Jimbuna]

1920s car?

30s

[Jimbuna]

Military ?

Markus

Oh yes.

[Jimbuna]

old police car?

Military.

[Ostfriese]

Armored car?

[Jimbuna]

Affirmative.

[Catfish]

British?

[Jimbuna]

Afraid not.

[Aktungbby]

Lawrence of Arabia's vehicle?

[Jimbuna]

Nope :)

[Aktungbby]

American?

[Jimbuna]

Nope :)

[mapuc]

Could it be a German vehicle ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Not German either :)

[Catfish]

French?

[Jimbuna]

Nope :)

[Ostfriese]

Soviet D-8 light armored car?

[Jimbuna]

Soviet D-8 light armored car?

Bang on the money and over to you :salute:

https://i.postimg.cc/QNpSVyr8/D-8-Armored-Car.jpg (https://postimg.cc/6TpCmz3g)

[Ostfriese]

What's this:


https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1443&pictureid=13594

[Jimbuna]

A car?

[Ostfriese]

A car?


No, sorry.

[Catfish]

Japanese?

[Aktungbby]

Bang on the money and over to you :salute:

https://i.postimg.cc/QNpSVyr8/D-8-Armored-Car.jpg (https://postimg.cc/6TpCmz3g)that one(pictured) has some nice 'finnishing' touches! A upright, rather than canted! swastika?!!:O:

[Ostfriese]

Japanese?
No, sorry.

[Eichhörnchen]

Motorcycle side-car?

[Ostfriese]

Motorcycle side-car?


Interesting idea, but no.

[Aktungbby]

does it have wheels?

[Ostfriese]

does it have wheels?


It does not.

[Eichhörnchen]

I prefer the red ones myself:O:)

https://i.imgur.com/EwPl5kZ.jpeg

I turned up too late to scoop this one also; here's a 1:72 scale model I built for a review some years ago (a short-run kit by Meikraft Models)

[Eichhörnchen]

So it's a boat?

[Aktungbby]

So it's a boat?only a ferry would conclude that!:O::arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

A sled?

[Ostfriese]

So it's a boat?


No, it's not a boat.

[Ostfriese]

A sled?


Not a sled, either.

[Jimbuna]

Some kind of shelter?

[Ostfriese]

Some kind of shelter?


I guess it can be used as that, but that's definitely not the intended purpose.

[Jimbuna]

Any connection with animals?

[Ostfriese]

Any connection with animals?


None.

[Jimbuna]

Humans?

[Ostfriese]

Humans?
It definitely has a connection with humans.


HINT:
The answer to the question whether it has wheels is correct, it doesn't have wheels. But I'm very certain that this has moved you onto the wrong path.

[Catfish]

German?
I guess I know what this is, I just did not find ONE fitting photo, the window does not fit :03:
Or it is an old version..

[Ostfriese]

German?
I guess I know what this is, I just did not find ONE fitting photo, the window does not fit :03:


Originally yes, although today it's usually connected to another country.

[Catfish]

Ah it is not a window, just an elongation of the window set.

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/editorial/image-editorial/older-version-maglev-train-transrapid-pictured-beside-9057621c

There even is a connection to sausages :D
Older MagLev Transrapid?

[Ostfriese]

Indeed it is:


https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1443&pictureid=13595


Over to you.:Kaleun_Salute:

[Catfish]

^ did not find a front view at first :salute:

Some more info:
https://the-family-butchers.com/de/story/ingenieurskunst-fuer-genuss/
english: https://the--family--butchers-com.translate.goog/de/story/ingenieurskunst-fuer-genuss/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

"In 1934, Hermann Kemper applied for a patent for a functional, controllable circuit for levitation based on the principle of electromagnetic attraction (EMS - electromagnetic levitation). Far ahead of his time, he wanted to use this technology for tubular railroads as the high-speed transportation system of the future."

Now it is being used in China. From jet technology to seismic technology, to transrapid – while other countries rob and copy, Germany gives it all away for free :O:


Ok, what is this?
Maybe especially german observers may have an instant idea(?)
Since a lot of riddles are posted incorporating english series and commonplace, let's change this for once lol

https://i.postimg.cc/Hs1sZm3W/detail.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Eichhörnchen]

Is/was it airborne?

[Catfish]

No, gliding or hovering close to the ground