Observer's badge, nobody. End of challenge.

[Airspeed]

Hi All,
Owing to Microsoft Edge giving the option of finding an image on the web, posing pictorial challenges has become as interesting as asking people to look up "Aircraft" in Wikipedia. Mirror imaging, turning photos onto pencil sketches etc does not stop the search engine from finding the image. No matter where the picture is found, someone will have uploaded it to the net at some time.
I am not saying that people have been using the search function, but the fact that it is there, makes such challenges worthless.
Sadly, this is goodbye to the topic as far as my involvement goes.
Many thanks to all who participated, I enjoyed it until now.

[airboatr]

And of course those who have books filled with pictures of aircraft drawings and photographs have an edge too.

I used goo guile starting with key words such as bi-plane with wheel pants and got pictures of tires, trousers, monoplanes and even hotdogs..
Or: WW2 twin engine bombers - and saw pictures of the boston bomber.
This is why I call it goo guile, because one gets beguiled into thinking they'll get info relevant to the words typed into the search bar but instead get a goo of shite in return.

I am the better considering.. I learned a lot about aircraft searching for the identity of the aircraft you posted, Mike.

[AllanL]

What, people use Edge?

My natural scepticism of all things Microsoft means I have given it a total berth. I must confess a reliance on a pile of ill-gotten, out of date reference books for my first win. Even sadder the second one was immediately recognised as a personal favourite from a life of enthusiasm for obscure taildragger biplanes. I have trouble remembering the names of our company directors, but show me a biplane and I am in business.

Maybe working out aircraft from obscure partial descriptions might make life more difficult for wibbly web searches?

I tried looking up an old technical guide that I used in my last job on Google for my work. Luckily I did the search on my own laptop instead of the work one as it involved the malt whisky process - drink/gambling and blogs etc are automatically blocked.

The first two links from a six digit alphanumeric reference came up with a gay porn site.

If I'd done that search on the work laptop the company IT police would have been battering my door down in seconds! I was going to say that image searches should be safer, but it all depends on the image you put into the search....................

I hope you had fun setting them. It did briefly allow me to justify my aero clutter to SWMBO

[TSR2]

I'm afraid its not an Edge thing Mike, Google have been at it for years and you can use any browser, not just edge (which is actually Chromium these days)