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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #225 on: July 01, 2014, 09:26:51 AM »
Let's go in a different direction...

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #226 on: July 01, 2014, 10:49:49 AM »
Let's go in a different direction...

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That would be the Chinese CAIC Z-10.  :D

How bout this one?

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Offline danny76

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #227 on: July 01, 2014, 10:54:41 AM »
That would be the Chinese CAIC Z-10.  :D

How bout this one?

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #228 on: July 01, 2014, 11:11:07 AM »
Bristol 173 Belvedere :old:

Correct!  :aok Your turn danny. Give us a good one!
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Offline danny76

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #229 on: July 02, 2014, 03:47:25 AM »
OK, probably too easy but:

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #230 on: July 02, 2014, 05:09:49 AM »
OK, probably too easy but:




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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #231 on: July 02, 2014, 05:10:33 AM »
"You kill 'em all, I'll eat the BATCO!"
The GFC

"Not within a thousand years will man ever fly" - Wilbur Wright

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #232 on: July 02, 2014, 05:16:37 AM »
"If man were meant to fly, he'd have been given an MS Sidewinder"

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #233 on: July 02, 2014, 05:17:54 AM »
"If man were meant to fly, he'd have been given an MS Sidewinder"

Offline FLOOB

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #234 on: July 02, 2014, 05:47:58 AM »
OK, probably too easy but:


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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #235 on: July 06, 2014, 05:27:41 PM »
Well I don't know nearly as much about this stuff as you guys do but I do want to see this thread keep going, so hang on a sec while I pull something out of my arse here...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t7djcl2eh5ri7q3/itsgotwingsandmaybeanenginetoo.jpg

Note that link might not be good in a month or so.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #236 on: July 06, 2014, 07:17:22 PM »
nrshida's is the Miles M.30 X-Minor. It was an early attempt at a blended wing design.

Mar's is an early production MiG-21 variant. It may be an early Soviet A or perhaps a Vietnamese F-13. The recessed green cone and bubble canopy suggests its the later.

How about this one?

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #237 on: July 07, 2014, 12:18:04 AM »
nrshida's is the Miles M.30 X-Minor. It was an early attempt at a blended wing design.

Oh he's good. 
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #238 on: July 07, 2014, 09:24:22 AM »
Oh he's good.  (Image removed from quote.)

You flatter me sir.  :salute

I would have answered much sooner but I spent the week in western Michigan cycling the local trails and combing the beaches of the big lake. Twas quite a nice vacation.  :cool:
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #239 on: July 07, 2014, 07:52:35 PM »
My regards,

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