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Man, I had to ransack the kingdom to recall what that was. Good thing I have a watertight memory.

Big, very big, 40 blades, 2 never flew. N flew. O and P didn't. Not the biggest, but in that league. The first paragraph above has clues as well.

I thought these games had died - glad to see them making a comeback.

You got me thinking old flying boats from Germany, but I can't find any that fit the numbers. The Dornier X had more than 40 blades, and more than 3 were made and flown from what I've seen.

40 blades, 10 hubs, 6 nacelles, no pushers. Work out that distribution and you'll have your answer because that particular combination is absolutely unique. And don't forget, big. It broke records for size. Its name did not fit it, insofar as the adjective "gigantic" would only be associated with that word as a pejorative.

I keep coming up with 6 nacelles: 4 inboard with contra-rotating props and 2 outboard with single props, all 4 bladed. I can picture the plane in my mind, I just can't think of the name :headbang:

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Well, this will give it away but the game looks like it got stalled. There was a very popular telephone back in the 60s & 70s, called the ________________.

That and the fact that it didn't have a stepped windscreen but one that looked borrowed from a B-377 should give you the answer.

Well, the phone clue makes me think it's rotary enginged. The windscreen would make it sweeping and curved, not angled. Hmmm. This is a toughy.

Methinks it's the Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess flying boat, the only bird I can think of that had 40 blades & 6 nacelles.

John

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Yeah, I think John nailed it. It matches all of the criteria that I can see. Especially the windscreen thing. It almost looks as though they just took one of the Boeings and built off of it.

The Saro Princess it is. I thought it was famous enough to recognize, but apparently not. Well, that was more than half a century ago; these days even an F4 Phantom is an antique.

You're next, John, if you want to keep the game on a roll ---

O.K., here is another one:

Twin booms

Single engine

Prop or jet

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I'm going with the Saab J-21

Yup, thats the one.

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Here's the next one

You won't see this old guard strutting around
It does well with little or lots of pressure
It cruises "cleanly" and will blow most singles of its day away

Hmm. This frst order of business is translating the clues:

You won't see this old guard strutting around = no external strut bracing, at least on the mainplane(s), at a time when strut bracing was still the norm? And "Old guard" means military?
It does well with little or lots of pressure = good performance with or without supercharging?
It cruises "cleanly" ... = retractable gear at a time when most planes were fixed gear?
... will blow most singles of its day away = among the fastest single engine airplanes at the time? or a biplane faster than most monoplanes?

The tough one is good performance without supercharging (if that's what that means) - most airplanes were dogs until supercharged, including the P-51. Thought it might be the Spitfire but it was supercharged from the start.

So would it be correct to say it's a piston powered military single engine cantilever monoplane with retractable gear at a time when most of those features were just being introduced, that acheived fame for its performance both before and after it got supercharging?

You're correct on it being a cantilevered wing , retractable gear, and a single engine piston. It's not military, but it's name is (kind of). And, it's not SUPER old. Just say up to 40+ years.

The pressure bit has to do with inside the plane itself.

While later models were supercharged, that is not a crucial part to figuring out the riddle.