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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #375 on: August 05, 2014, 01:21:50 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #376 on: August 05, 2014, 07:09:39 PM »
Geebus.  I thought maybe a early training aircraft from Corsair but I'm stumped.  Engine cowling is definitely pre/early war...  And the rear seating position makes me think it's a racing or speed variant...
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #377 on: August 05, 2014, 07:47:02 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on August 05, 2014, 07:09:39 PM
Geebus.  I thought maybe a early training aircraft from Corsair but I'm stumped.  Engine cowling is definitely pre/early war...  And the rear seating position makes me think it's a racing or speed variant...

It looks like a Bellanca 28-90 "Flash" to me. But I could be wrong.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #378 on: August 06, 2014, 10:07:22 AM »
Quote from: Blinder on August 05, 2014, 07:47:02 PM
It looks like a Bellanca 28-90 "Flash" to me. But I could be wrong. (Image removed from quote.)
It's the Bellanca.  :aok  Ain't that thing just hideous?
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #379 on: August 06, 2014, 12:11:11 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 06, 2014, 10:07:22 AM
It's the Bellanca.  :aok  Ain't that thing just hideous?

Yes Bellanca, despite being Italian, made some real ugly airplanes that would give the French a good run.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #380 on: August 06, 2014, 02:04:50 PM »
Ok - I'll try a weird one for you guys... hint - look at the tail

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #381 on: August 06, 2014, 02:55:02 PM »
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"We can rebuild him".  ;)  (the M2-F2 predecessor)
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #382 on: August 07, 2014, 02:17:22 PM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on August 06, 2014, 12:11:11 PM
Yes Bellanca, despite being Italian, made some real ugly airplanes that would give the French a good run.

Bellanca actually moved to the US in 1911. This particular plane was likely built about 10 minutes from my house in Delaware. I had relatives that worked there. There's a group here trying to restore the original hangar at that facility and make it a museum.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #383 on: August 07, 2014, 03:09:06 PM »
Quote from: Drano on August 07, 2014, 02:17:22 PM
Bellanca actually moved to the US in 1911. This particular plane was likely built about 10 minutes from my house in Delaware. I had relatives that worked there. There's a group here trying to restore the original hangar at that facility and make it a museum.
Yeah, it was intended for export to Spain to participate in the civil war there, but it didn't make it in time.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #384 on: August 08, 2014, 02:10:10 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #385 on: August 08, 2014, 02:14:14 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 06, 2014, 02:55:02 PM
Northrop HL-10

"We can rebuild him".  ;)  (the M2-F2 predecessor)
Good catch 'the six million dollar man' Mr. Steve Austin (not the WWE wrestler).  I made a Tesca model of it in 1977 when I was younger. I came across it from the NASA website and remembered the intro to TSMDM and the model I made.  They don't make shows like that any more ;)

Ok - this one... hint, it was part of an early trophy race from the 1920's
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #386 on: August 08, 2014, 10:33:33 PM »
That's an Italian SEAI S.51 from the Schneider Trophy races.

Now, anybody gonna tell me what that is I posted?
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #387 on: August 09, 2014, 02:40:58 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 08, 2014, 10:33:33 PM
That's an Italian SEAI S.51 from the Schneider Trophy races.

Now, anybody gonna tell me what that is I posted?

I know this plane. In my second year at Embry-Riddle I did a report on Piaggio Aero. This is Giovanni Pegna's light sport Rondine, circa 1923.

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #388 on: August 09, 2014, 08:00:27 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 05, 2014, 01:21:50 PM
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What a horribly designed plane to need three spars to hold the main wings on, and a spar to hold the horizontal stabilizers on.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #389 on: August 09, 2014, 08:19:32 PM »
Quote from: DaveBB on August 09, 2014, 08:00:27 PM
What a horribly designed plane to need three spars to hold the main wings on, and a spar to hold the horizontal stabilizers on.

This was a common design practice. The wing and stab are not a cantilever design, thus the external bracing. Keep in mind that the early Bf 109s had externally braced horizontal stabilizers well into the early 1940s.

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