Suggestion: print out both photos and *measure* the distances between the different features on the airframe. Express those distances as proportions or percentages of other distances. For example, in one photo the distance from the trailing edge of the right wing to the back edge of the last window is x percent of the distance from the trailing edge of the right wing to the leading edge of the horizontal stabilizer , so we should either see a window in that distance, or not, when we look at the other photo.
Similar logic applies to comparing the width of the tail to the distance from the right wing trailing edge to the horizontal stabiliser leading edge. The tail width doesn’t change in the B model, but the airfame is stretched fore and aft of the wing - so those distances are different in the a vs. B model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_208_Caravan
“208B Grand Caravan
A 4 feet (1.2 m) stretch of the Caravan I. The 208B features a more powerful PT6A-114A engine.”
http://www.cessna.com/~/media/Files/caravan/super_cargomaster/grandcaravan_pim.ashx
pages 6-28- 6-34
FAA REGISTRY
N-Number Inquiry Results
N687MA is Assigned
Data Updated each Federal Working Day at Midnight
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/nnum_inquiry.aspx
http://www.airvectors.net/avcvan.html
http://www.aero-news.net/images/content/general/2014/Hawaii-Crash-Capture-YouTube-0114a.JPG
http://www.baaa-acro.com/2009/archives/crash-of-a-cessna-208b-grand-caravan-off-la-tortuga/
http://www.baaa-acro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/YV1183-2.jpg
http://www.zerosixright.com/molokai-hawaii/
Not too long ago I messed up on some measurements and came to a faulty conclusion as a result, so I’m a little gunshy of that right now (and swamped with other stuff too) but that sounds like a wonderful idea for somebody with the right skills to do it. Is that something you could do? =)
“One thing I wonder about : in lang’s picture, there is a foot wide shadow across the top of the left wing. What is causing the shadow?”
Tail fin. See image in above post 212.
