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Title: Name this a/c
Post by: bounder on February 14, 2003, 10:54:15 AM

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Title: Name this a/c
Post by: SKurj on February 14, 2003, 11:03:51 AM

lol

that thing was never built was it?


SKurj

Title: Name this a/c
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on February 14, 2003, 12:55:45 PM

Whoever drew that failed Aerodynamics 101 "Center of Gravity - quiz".

Title: Name this a/c
Post by: Ridge on February 14, 2003, 02:08:23 PM

Looks pretty fun...

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Post by: Viper17 on February 14, 2003, 02:34:31 PM

Looks like it used Dc-2 wings? I have no Idea what it is other than it is a bomberish thingy.

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Post by: Red Tail 444 on February 14, 2003, 04:17:36 PM

Rolling deathtrap? Not Flying Deathtrap, because no way would it ever get off the ground...

Gainsie

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Post by: SELECTOR on February 14, 2003, 05:17:25 PM

thats the viking tour bus or as we call it the passion wagon:D

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Post by: Rasker on February 15, 2003, 01:24:33 AM

evidently the tail wheel caught in something on takeoff, resulting in stretchage :)  this says a lot for the power ot the engines, or the strength of the tail wheel, but not much for the strength of the airframe

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Post by: Rasker on February 15, 2003, 12:28:48 PM

btw the nose section looks like it was later used in the F7F Tigercat :)

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Post by: frank3 on February 16, 2003, 10:03:30 AM

It was flying while the tail was tied up to a wall or something

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Post by: Kweassa on February 16, 2003, 12:27:09 PM

I think it's a hybrid image of many planes...

 the nose sections looks like from the 262, the wings sort of resemble the Ju52 IMO.. and the mid section looks like multiple pasted images of a typical 2~3 crew torpedo plane(maybe TBM?).. dunno about the tails..

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Post by: MOIL on February 16, 2003, 09:58:07 PM

I think it is the early version of the  "bring the guys over" we're having a kegger at hanger 51:D

             shot in the dark on this one!

Title: Name this a/c
Post by: Otto on February 16, 2003, 10:19:13 PM

Himmm?  I'd say it's a:

Harley-Fairfax K-55 Air-Pal Trainer

Title: Name this a/c
Post by: Engine on February 16, 2003, 10:30:26 PM

Looks to me like a drawing run through Photoshop to produce a photograph effect.  The glare on the nacelles and nose give it away.

Title: Name this a/c
Post by: bounder on February 18, 2003, 04:44:35 AM

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Originally posted by Otto
Himmm?  I'd say it's a:

Harley-Fairfax K-55 Air-Pal Trainer

Give that man a big Fat Ceegar! It is indeed the K-55 Air Pal Trainer.

Quote

From Major Howdy Bixby's album of forgotten warbirds

"You can't send those 19 kids up in a crate like that!" bandied the wags whenever a near score of student pilots filed aboard this controversial Army Air Corps ship in the late 30s; and as a Senate hearing later confirmed, they were chillingly close to the truth.

The 19 neophytes could be sent up alright; it was a matter of how suddenly and how violently they came back down.

Trouble started with the pilot and worked its way back to the man at the rear. Conceived as an economical flying trainer, the Air Pal was so economical that it lacked any intercom systems among instructor and pupils.

No problem in a 2 or even 3 seater - but with 19 sets of controls? Elaborate pre-briefings, hand signals, screaming - all were tried but all fell short of the desired result, unanimity of action, as in "Bank Left!"

Happily for all concerned a further economy move halted production altogether only 5 months after it began.

But those who flew or tried to fly her are not likely to ever forget this stillborn regent of the cloud lanes - memories shared by those on the ground lucky and sharp-eyed enough to catch a necessarily brief glimpse of an Air Pal cartwheeling across the sky while 19 plucky, if somewhat perplexed students tried outguessing one another, their teacher and fate itself.

Oh, and engine, there are more obvious clues to the fact it is not a photograph, but you are absolutely right.

Title: Name this a/c
Post by: Otto on February 18, 2003, 09:23:42 AM

Thanks Bounder, I new I'd get one right somethime :)

Here's another pic:

Credit:  "Zany Afternoon's"  by Bruce McCall

Title: Name this a/c
Post by: Dux on February 18, 2003, 11:01:08 AM

Obviously designed by a middle-management committee. Yikes.

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Post by: Rasker on February 20, 2003, 02:33:46 AM

does anyone recall a humorous article in Playboy entitled something like "Worst Weapons of All Time".  It detailed such imaginary things as miniature Japanese kamikaze bulldozers for jungle fighting and a legendarily bad British bomber called the Gallipoli.  When the Japanese forces approached Singapore "the call went out 'Warm up the Gallipoli's!' Alas, their boarding ladders could not be found.  The Gallipoli's moment in history had come and gone."