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Find the Airplane!

By The Armorer on October 5, 2004 | | Comments (10)

CAPT H sends this challenge to the Instalpilot (and anyone else who's game).

Find, and identify, the airplane. I confess - I don't see one. But Herr Rittmeister Heinrichs assures me one is there.

Photo by Ozzie Sergeant William Guthrie, the lucky Digger! (Or, if he's RAAF, whatever they call themselves... a hole in my lexicon)

More stuff here (including pictures of that Barbie - some, ostensibly with bits of airplane in them... but again, I haven't a clue)

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By Instapilot on October 5, 2004 1:14 PM
Aside from the big-ass P-3 Orion in the background, I think I may be missing the joke. Granted, it's hard to raise one's eyes above the head of the comely lass in the foreground (is she one of John's "Bloggers with Boobies"?), but that old sub-hunter is sort of hard to miss... Apologies if I am being too obtuse to see what else I'm supposed to see...
 
By SangerM on October 5, 2004 3:00 PM
This looks like a NZ P3, AP-C3 type. Note color of blade tips, window types and locations, tail markings, etc. It could actually be the one shown in the link to the avalon airshow, February 2003: orion. More AP-3C types here and here. I can't find one with the blonde, but I've only been looking 20 minutes. :-( SangerM
 
By SangerM on October 5, 2004 3:02 PM
Oops. Open the links in a new window (right click) SangerM
 
By Joy on October 5, 2004 4:06 PM
This is my favorite "find" site. Like your find the airplane this one is find the dogs. http://www.grayace.com/dex/
 
By Beth on October 6, 2004 4:58 AM
all I can find is that John won't get a new gun for Christmas.
 
By John of Argghhh! on October 6, 2004 6:13 AM
But Dear, I was just doing a service for our readers who are deployed... morale booster and all. But I see the Instapilot was correct in his assessment of the situation.
 
By J.M. heinrichs on October 6, 2004 2:49 PM
(Snicker) Cheers JMH
 
By Sigivald on October 6, 2004 5:34 PM
Via Tim Blair, via whom I saw the picture and many more originally, I know who that is; it's an Aussie celbrity type named Bessie Bardot. (Gallery linked to has work-safe pictures of her and others on a USO-like tour, from the AU DoD.)
 
By Errol on October 7, 2004 5:25 PM
This looks like a NZ P3, AP-C3 type. ??? The RNZAF Orions were delivered as P-3B's, and have since been updated and re-designated as P-3K's. One with 'AP-3C' markings is definately Ozzie, not Kiwi. It's always possible that there happened to be a RNZAF Orion at a base where the tour was (there has been one deployed to the Gulf area), but the AuDoD calls the one in the a "AP3-C Orion named (Bessie)".
 
By Huck on October 7, 2004 8:03 PM
Airplane? That is Bessie Bardot, however. I wrote about her earlier in the week. Failed to post a picture along with it. My bad.