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Offline FLOOB

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #345 on: July 28, 2014, 08:15:45 PM »
Wrong again, it has nothing to do with the fictitious mig 28.
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Offline Zimme83

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #346 on: July 28, 2014, 08:26:19 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on July 28, 2014, 08:10:29 PM
Here's an easy one. I definitely like the setting.

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Easy. Its the Mirage200ELA (Extremley Low Altitude) fighter.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #347 on: July 28, 2014, 08:31:02 PM »
Quote from: FLOOB on July 28, 2014, 08:15:45 PM
Wrong again, it has nothing to do with the fictitious mig 28.

Yes it has: They are both called MiG:s and they are both fictional.
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Offline FLOOB

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #348 on: July 28, 2014, 08:36:25 PM »
Here's an easy one.

If you don't get this you're a discredit to autistic plane spotters everywhere.
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Offline Charge

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #349 on: July 28, 2014, 08:55:50 PM »
Vacadoodoo XIX?

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #350 on: July 28, 2014, 09:32:07 PM »
Boeing 747
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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #351 on: July 28, 2014, 10:16:39 PM »
Quote from: Zimme83 on July 28, 2014, 08:26:19 PM
Easy. Its the Mirage200ELA (Extremley Low Altitude) fighter.
:aok  :lol
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #352 on: July 29, 2014, 12:50:30 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #353 on: July 29, 2014, 03:33:43 PM »
Oh I'd know those squared off nacelles anywhere! That's a Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk!  :rock I love that plane, man!

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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #354 on: July 29, 2014, 03:56:51 PM »
XF-90
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #355 on: July 29, 2014, 05:14:23 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #356 on: July 29, 2014, 07:56:22 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on July 29, 2014, 03:56:51 PM
XF-90

Model for the Blackhawk comic.

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #357 on: July 29, 2014, 08:45:00 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on July 29, 2014, 03:56:51 PM
XF-90

Yep.... I published an XF-90 article in Flight Journal, around August of 2002.... Warren Bodie supplied the photos and wrote a sidebar... Long time ago..

I found it copied here... http://www.456fis.org/LOCKHEED_XF-90.htm
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Offline Oldman731

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #358 on: July 30, 2014, 07:58:39 AM »
Quote from: Widewing on July 29, 2014, 08:45:00 PM
Yep.... I published an XF-90 article in Flight Journal, around August of 2002.... Warren Bodie supplied the photos and wrote a sidebar... Long time ago..

I found it copied here... http://www.456fis.org/LOCKHEED_XF-90.htm


Thanks, WW, very nice article.  I remember building Aurora's kit.  Never knew anything about the plane, though.

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #359 on: July 30, 2014, 09:19:06 AM »
Quote from: Widewing on July 29, 2014, 08:45:00 PM
Yep.... I published an XF-90 article in Flight Journal, around August of 2002.... Warren Bodie supplied the photos and wrote a sidebar... Long time ago..

I found it copied here... http://www.456fis.org/LOCKHEED_XF-90.htm
Indeed WW, great article.  :aok. Do you have any additional info on the articulated tail?
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