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Offline Widewing

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« on: July 11, 2005, 09:20:24 AM »


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My regards,

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Offline frank3

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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2005, 10:22:21 AM »
Woohoo, Im the first


Hmm, tough one....B-47?

Offline Casca

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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2005, 10:40:46 AM »
My guess: Grumman F9F
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Offline Westy

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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2005, 10:49:30 AM »
Tough one.   Early jet imo.  Four horizontal, nose mounted weapons (big openings so I would suspect cannon)

And the thing on the chin (radome?) rules out Gloster jets.

Looks like an "E" on the starboard side too.  Been looking for USA ForcE jets and been striking out.  The closest I found is the B-57 Canberra but I cannot find a pic of one with the quad hispano gun package.

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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2005, 11:06:34 AM »
I'm waiting for someone to take a picture of a rivet and then
ask what type it is ;)
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Offline Charge

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« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2005, 01:41:02 PM »
I think Casca has it right. But Cougar or Panther? It obviously has some kind of radar radome under the nose.

http://www.foxhound.terramail.pl/tz045.jpg

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Cougar. F9F-8

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Offline Westy

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« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2005, 02:21:59 PM »
WTG.  

 The decal on the lower edge of the "6" (from the starboard "126") made me think it was the letter "E."

Offline hacksaw1

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« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2005, 02:40:29 PM »
If you flip the image you see that what looks like a funky E is actually a 3.

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« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2005, 08:30:06 PM »
I think the nose is too blunt to be an F9F, plus there don't seem to be intakes at the wing roots.  So it's obviously a multi-engine job.  I'm betting on some sort of Canberra.

Offline spitfiremkv

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« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2005, 09:01:00 PM »
F9F-6 Cougar!


Offline Widewing

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« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2005, 09:23:40 PM »
This is a Grumman F9F-7, delivered in 1953.

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Widewing
My regards,

Widewing

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