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Offline Blinder

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Name that Plane
« on: May 13, 2014, 05:05:37 AM »
Ok all you aviation buffs and gurus. Let's start a new weekly segment to test and sharpen your aviation knowledge. Anyone can identify a B-52 or a P-51 so let's dig deep and try to guess some of these really strange birds. I'll kick this off with an easy one.




Name that Plane!  :headscratch:
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2014, 08:19:53 AM »
 :uhoh

Can I get a clue? :headscratch:
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2014, 08:25:39 AM »
Ok all you aviation buffs and gurus. Let's start a new weekly segment to test and sharpen your aviation knowledge. Anyone can identify a B-52 or a P-51 so let's dig deep and try to guess some of these really strange birds. I'll kick this off with an easy one.

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2014, 08:51:58 AM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2014, 09:10:36 AM »

If it's ugly and weird it's Russian.  (Ilyushin Il-40, 1950s)



YOU ARE CORRECT SIR!!

The Ilyushin Il-40 (NATO reporting name: Brawny) was a two-seat Soviet jet-engined armored ground-attack aircraft. The first prototype flew in 1953 and was very successful except when it fired its guns, as their combustion gasses disturbed the airflow into the engines and caused them to flameout or hiccup. Remedying this problem took over a year and involved the radical change of moving the engine air intakes all the way to the very front of the aircraft and repositioning the guns from the tip of the nose to the bottom of the fuselage, just behind the nose wheel. The aircraft, now resembling a double-barreled shotgun from the front, was ordered into production in 1955. Only five production aircraft had been completed before the entire program was canceled in early 1956 when the VVS discarded its close air support doctrine in favor of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2014, 09:13:19 AM »
Let's try another one. This one may be a little harder.



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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2014, 09:27:41 AM »
Tupolev SB-2, served in the Spanish Civil War. There was a Republican airfield in my hometown, still visit the bunkers from time to time  :salute
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« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2014, 09:30:28 AM »
Tupolev SB-2, served in the Spanish Civil War. There was a Republican airfield in my hometown, still visit the bunkers from time to time  :salute

There is no fooling you aircraft connoisseurs! Correct! This pic is actually of the original Tupolev ANT-40, also known by its service name Tupolev SB (Russian: Скоростной бомбардировщик – Skorostnoi Bombardirovschik – "high speed bomber"), and development co-name TsAGI-40, was a high speed twin-engined three-seat monoplane bomber, first flown in 1934.The design was very advanced, but lacked refinement, much to the dismay of crews and maintenance personnel – and of Stalin, who pointed out that "there are no trivialities in aviation". Numerically the most important bomber in the world in the late 1930s, the SB was the first modern stressed-skin aircraft produced in quantity in the Soviet Union and probably the most formidable bomber of the mid-1930s. Many versions saw extensive action in Spain, the Republic of China, Mongolia, Finland and at the beginning of the War against Germany in 1941. It was also used in various duties in civil variants, as trainers and in many secondary roles. Successful in the Spanish Civil War because it outpaced most fighters, the aircraft was obsolete by 1941. By June 1941, 94% of bombers in the Red Army air force (VVS RKKA) were SBs.

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2014, 09:52:59 AM »
How about this one?

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2014, 10:27:34 AM »
It's a weird version of the XB-43 Jetmaster!

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2014, 10:42:54 AM »
Ok all you aviation buffs and gurus. Let's start a new weekly segment to test and sharpen your aviation knowledge. Anyone can identify a B-52 or a P-51 so let's dig deep and try to guess some of these really strange birds. I'll kick this off with an easy one.

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Name that Plane!  :headscratch:

That looks like something you'd see on Felix the Cat back when I was a kid.  :lol

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2014, 11:10:27 AM »
It's a weird version of the XB-43 Jetmaster!

Boy this is a tough crowd to stump! Excellent!

So how about this one?

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« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2014, 12:05:20 PM »
BAC TSR-2  :old:
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2014, 12:07:44 PM »
This one

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« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2014, 12:20:20 PM »
Yakovlev Yak-36  :old:
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