Author Topic: Name this Plane (101), Experts Category - Prize Included! (Read 979 times)

Vermillion · « **on:** February 26, 2001, 08:13:00 AM »

Ok I think I have finally found a Name this plane pic that is pretty damn hard, while still giving you a full picture (not like some of Brady's latest ones where you get a picture of a wheel well

). Note, it is a war time fighter, not a racer of any type.

Here is the deal with the contest. Three chances to guess this aircrafts Designation AND Manufacturer .

The Prize: If anyone guess's it correctly, I will share a 1-liter bottle of Wild Turkey 101 with them at this years CON.

The Rules: 3 Tries (total posts), and ANY edited posts immediately invalidate the conttest.

Good Luck! And its harder than you think

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2001, 08:23:00 AM »

curtis "I don't recal the mk" Interceptor ?

straffo · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2001, 08:25:00 AM »

CW-21A mostly ?

straffo · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2001, 08:32:00 AM »

ok I got it Verm

have a drink for me I won't swim to cross the Atlantic this year ...
at the bottom of this page: http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/quarters/9485/Curtiss2.html

To bad for you my monthly drug come the past WE

I've recieved a "Fana de l'aviation" speaking of the dutch indonesia offensive and this one can't be forgot it look terrible !

Vermillion · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2001, 09:05:00 AM »

Close Straffo, but you still don't have it correct

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Here is the deal with the contest. Three chances to guess this aircrafts Designation AND Manufacturer

You got the Designation and Designer, but not the Manufacturer.

At least according to the magazine article from 1977 that I got the picture from.

Hint, Curtis designed the plane and built the prototypes, but turned them over to the manufacturer. Who was it?

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

straffo · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2001, 09:18:00 AM »

Arghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Translation error

My own fault

But truly I don't know the "manufacturer" ...

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2001, 10:06:00 AM »

Widewing · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2001, 10:10:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Vermillion:
Ok I think I have finally found a Name this plane pic that is pretty damn hard, while still giving you a full picture (not like some of Brady's latest ones where you get a picture of a wheel well ). Note, it is a war time fighter, not a racer of any type.

Here is the deal with the contest. Three chances to guess this aircrafts Designation AND Manufacturer .

The Prize: If anyone guess's it correctly, I will share a 1-liter bottle of Wild Turkey 101 with them at this years CON.

The Rules: 3 Tries (total posts), and ANY edited posts immediately invalidate the conttest.

Good Luck! And its harder than you think

Verm, the CW-21 was maufactured by Curtiss-Wright (St. Louis) and under licence by CAMCO based in China (although the plant was actually in Burma). Since this is the A model
with the rearward retracting landing gear, and I suspect was one of the three picked up
by Erik Shilling at Co., I'll wager it was one of the CAMCO planes.

My regards,

Widewing

brady · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2001, 11:30:00 AM »

Good one Vermillion, god has spoken..eeer I mean Widewing

Brady

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Vermillion · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2001, 01:24:00 PM »

And of course, Widewing got the correct answer

Too bad Straffo blew all three guess' of the contest

It is one of the CAMCO birds.

For those that don't know, CAMCO was the fledgling attempt at a domestic military aircraft company by China early in WWII, which failed horribly.

If you look closely at the one picture you will notice the tail of a Flying Tigers P-40.

In the other picture you will notice a large building in the background, if I remember correctly, that was the CAMCO factory, which shortly after the picture I posted was taken, had to be abandoned and burned due to the Japanese advances.

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

Widewing · « **Reply #10 on:** February 26, 2001, 02:11:00 PM »

For those who may be curious as to what CAMCO stands for:

Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company

With offices in Kunming, Rangoon, New York and L.A.

CAMCO was a front company set up to import and manufacture aircraft for the Nationalist Chinese goverment. They also obtained a licence to build a fixed landing gear version of the Curtiss Hawk 75 (think P-36).

My regards,

Widewing