Murphy's Duck

[jankees]

we're nearly there...
quack (0004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

quack (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

quack (0001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

quack (0002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

quack (0006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[jankees]

here you go: https://flightsim.to/file/82655/grumman-j2f-duck

quack (0013) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[Charl]

That's a nice project - glad to see it make its appearance in public!
Congratulations.

[Splitpin]

Very nice indeed JK .....That movie is great,as is all your work. I'm a big Peter O'Toole fan....and I like Ducks.

[Naki]

There's a Duck under restoration here in NZ for a US customer. Will be interesting to see what scheme it will have.

[jankees]

meanwhile, I've also uploaded this one on FS.2

nz (00004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[cowpatz]

No matter how long I look, or how hard I try, I just cannot find any affection, whatsoever, for the Duck. It just doesn't seem right.
Nice paints as usual though Jankees.

[Charl]

Yes it is very odd indeed... I am wondering about the windows below the second seat?

[jankees]

There's a small cabin, for 2 people, there.

[Charl]

Ah, right.
Can't help feeling the Duck answers a question nobody really asked?

Still, it's a fun flyer and something quite entertaining in the sim!
You feel you should be going Dum de dum de dum as you cruise along.

[jankees]

one of the more amazing things about the Duck is that it is a prewar biplane that was used extensively throughout WW2, and that apparently did it so well that the USAF started flying them in 1948... Argentina retired the last on in 1958. So it must have answered someone's question rather well

[Charl]

Haha no offence JK, I know the project is close to your heart!

Interestingly the Goose is of the same vintage and seems a much more sorted design.
And the twin engine layout more logical for a plane that would spend much time presumably, over water.

But on reading further, I see that the Duck is in fact much older, Grumman having bought the design of the Loening CL which dates to 1923!
This was a different era of flying, and plopping a single engine biplane onto a giant pontoon, a part of the Great Flying Experiment.

Anyway I am enjoying the Duck, and your excellent liveries.
I fly it around Wellington harbour and go dum de dum dum

[jankees]

have you seen this, for your Wellington flying?
https://flightsim.to/file/82718/grumman-j2f-duck-rnzaf

[Charl]

Well I was using Murphy's Duck, in a possible Peter Jackson remake scenario

But since you mention it, downloading the whatif RNZAF repaint as we speak.
Thank you.