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Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: Holden McGroin on November 17, 2002, 07:39:15 AM

Questions are;
 
a. What is the A/C?
b. What are the names of the mountains in the background?
c. What was the photographer flying?

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: ra on November 17, 2002, 08:00:07 AM

It's the replica of the Hughes racer.  As far as the other 2 questions, we'd need to read the caption.

ra

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: hazed- on November 17, 2002, 08:05:31 AM

er dunno what the plane is but its ugly and my guess would be somewhere over the west coast of the US and no matter how much i look at the reflections on that plane i cant make out an aircraft  so Id guess an old p51 or something?

hows that for pure conjecture?

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: GRUNHERZ on November 17, 2002, 09:39:31 AM

WOW! A flying hughes H1!!   This plane set some speed records in the 1930s and inspired Kurt Tank to make FW190.  I never knew there was flying replica, cool!

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: Bodhi on November 17, 2002, 10:37:32 AM

Just a bit of fact to go with the picture at the top.  (I read the article too ;)   )  That replica, was actually given serial number 2 instead of being categorised as just a replica owing to the great lengths they went to duplicate the original!

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: Holden McGroin on November 17, 2002, 10:33:26 PM

I tought for sure that WHGates3 would jump in and get all three.  

Hughes racer #2 (Recently set closed course speed record for class in Reno)

Three Sisters near Bend, Oregon, USA

and (conjecture) a Lancair, due to the proximity of the factory.

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: VOR on November 18, 2002, 12:54:17 AM

The mountain range looks ALOT like the rockies..am I right?

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: whgates3 on November 18, 2002, 02:39:46 AM

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I tought for sure that WHGates3 would jump in and get all three.  

i'm not a well educated in this field as you seem to suspect - i just like to sift through the Military Aircraft Database & hunt down pix of the birds in there that i haven't heard of...i thought the Hughes Racer kinda looked like maybe some ancestor of the Corsair; damned spiffy

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: Holden McGroin on November 18, 2002, 04:03:07 AM

I just thought that somebody in Cottage Grove building something like this, you'd have heard about it in Portland.   'Course I realize that Cottage Grove is outside of the Willamette Valley, and therefore not in Oregon...  

Just a little local humor from outside the 503:)


>edit> looking at the map, it looks as tho CG might be on the southern extreme of the valley, but it's south of the Peoples Republic of Eugene, so I think it's still outside of the limits...

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: whgates3 on November 18, 2002, 01:16:12 PM

Cottage Grove is home to Michael Schwartz - famous discoverer of extragalactic supernovae...

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: vorticon on November 18, 2002, 01:18:02 PM

its a h1 racer

and those mountains are most definatly the rockies.

the photographer was flying the same thing

Title: Cool Aircraft
Post by: Red Tail 444 on November 18, 2002, 01:18:28 PM

It kind of reminds me of a vought design.