Aircraft Identification V

[Emilio Lafuente]

Hello all,

The little biplane has a funny name indeed. It´s the Christmas Bullet

 

[kool kitty89]

Oh that horrible thing, I've raed about it, but haven't seen it before. (possibly the worst aircraft ever built)

 

[Patoruzu]

hi Misters here a not very know plane.
Do You know it. Graeme must be easy for You.

 

[Emilio Lafuente]

Hola Patoruzu,

The fighter prototype is the Renard R-36.Renard R-36 - fighter

 

[Patoruzu]

Excelente Emilio - me parece que debo que urgar mas para atraparlos.
Excelent - I think I must go deeper to catch You

 

[Aggie08]

Good job, Emilio. The only thing stranger than the name was the fact that they got two pilots willing to "test fly" it. They were both killed before the end of the runway.

That's a good lookin' plane, pat.

 

[pbfoot]

Sorry guys going to interupt with a real time one took this from the porch today and I think they are F18's but am not sure so I came to the experts thought the T38's wer ret'd

 

[Matt308]

T-38

 

[Graeme]

Easy one?...

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Northrup F-15.



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[Matt308]

You mean Northrup F-5? I too debated that. Hard to tell from the pic. But the long nose and no apparent rails on the wingtips was what made be decide. But in reality it could be either.

 

[kool kitty89]

No he was reffering to Graeme's pic: Northrop F-15 Reporter (a WWII recon aircraft, variant of the P-61)

 

[Graeme]

Northrup F-15.

No he was reffering to Graeme's pic: Northrop F-15 Reporter (a WWII recon aircraft, variant of the P-61)

Yep. the Northrop F-15 Reporter.

This one, 'The Missing Link', flown by Lt Anthony T Linkiewicz, has an interesting history. In his words...

"One of the more memorable photo missions that I participated in was taking pictures of the entire Bataan Death March route. The death march photos were supposed to be used by the War Crimes prosecutors in Toyko to prove that water was available for the prisoners along the route. We never heard the results of our work, but hopefully we were able to contribute."

 

[Matt308]

No he was reffering to Graeme's pic: Northrop F-15 Reporter (a WWII recon aircraft, variant of the P-61)

I swear when I answered that post that Graeme's post was not there. Back to the dungeon...

 

[Graeme]

I swear when I answered that post that Graeme's post was not there. Back to the dungeon...

Matt 'you are not alone' when it comes to that phenomena

New one...

 

[kool kitty89]

My first thought is the Douglas Skystreak, but I don't think that's it...

 

[Waynos]

Back from my hols now, and I reckon its the Saro SR/A.1

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Once again, I'm familiar with a plane because I built an R/C model of it. My F-15 was done in USAF "Project Thunderstorm" colors, mainly because I was a USAF weather guy. Don't have any scanned-in pictures, though, as it wasn't one of my best efforts. Besides the movers destroyed it when we were transferred to Germany (Funny, that. They destroyed my 42" F-15 and severely damaged a 36" wingspan non-scale acrobat, but my wife's 2 meter glider came through totally unscathed!).

BTW, the "F" was due to that being used to designate photo-recce planes during the war.

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[Graeme]

Back from my hols now, and I reckon its the Saro SR/A.1

That's the one Wayne...welcome back.

One more. What's the twin in the foreground, in front of the Blenheim?...

 

[Old Wizard]

Miles M.65 Gemini.