Netko wrote in
:

On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 00:57:55 +0000, Savageduck wrote
(in article 2015010216575555439-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom):

There are a couple of things about this aircraft which make me think
it is a Short 166. Can anyone confirm this (or mock my ignorance)?

Google is your friend, and your intuition comes through as correct.

Actually I had done a search but Short's 'folder' seaplanes all look
much the same to me. I reckoned it was a 166 for two reasons:

(1) the national marking is a Union flag rather than a roundel, making
it, I thought, one of the earlier models;*and

(2) the fragment of the serial showing in the photo which Mitchell
posted looks like it could include a '6' followed by a '4' and No 164
was a 166.

However, none of that is conclusive, hence my question.

As a footnote, I was surprised to see that some UK aircraft apparently
used the flag as the national marking as late as 1916; I thought that
had changed by late 1914/early 1915.

Might it depend on whether or not it was RFC or RNAS, or whether or not it
was operating at sea as opposed to from land bases? Or the UK v. the
continent?
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