Aircraft Identification V

[cheddar cheese]

yes we try not to talk about the Ba-88 too much........

Nice diagrams and photos SM79! 8)

 

[red admiral]

Getting more obscure now. It wasn't actually built though, but nearly.

 

[Wildcat]

Looks like a cross between a Mustang and a Spit!

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

Don't remember.... I know it was made by an ejector seat company.

Wasn't it something like DB.5?

 

[Wildcat]

MB.5? perhaps?

 

[cheddar cheese]

I dont think it was an MB5, that was built. I think ive seen this somewhere though!

 

[Piaggio108]

It looks closely related to the Hawker Tempest. The wing is just like the tempest, and so is the tail. Perhaps a Tempest w/ a griffon engine?

 

[plan_D]

I was thinking that. It looks like the engine could be a Griffon 85 with contra-rotating props married to a Tempest/Spitfre/Mustang kind of airframe.

I can't help but think it's Italian though.

 

[red admiral]

Its not the MB.5 nor Italian.

 

[Smokey]

Hawker Fury prototype (LA610) with a Rolls-Royce Griffon 85 and contra props

 

[mosquitoman]

Martin-Baker MB.5?

 

[red admiral]

Its not an MB5 or Fury prototype.

 

[NightHawk]

Yeah, Now its fine,

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i've never actually seen that one before..........

(i copied the adress and actually looked at the pic on the site lol, it doesn't say what it is though)

 

[Smokey]

Lockheed L-1000 experimental jet fighter, using an axial flow jet engine with afterburner dating from 1937 which was called the XJ 37. The engine had problems tho.
The plane used thrusters for roll control, like a spaceship

The contraprop Fury look-alike is puzzling

 

[cheddar cheese]

i've never actually seen that one before..........

(i copied the adress and actually looked at the pic on the site lol, it doesn't say what it is though)

Thats because theyre on image hosting sites...

I really dont know what the top one is. Im sure I recognise from somewhere though.

 

[NightHawk]

Lockheed L-1000 experimental jet fighter, using an axial flow jet engine with afterburner dating from 1937 which was called the XJ 37. The engine had problems tho.
The plane used thrusters for roll control, like a spaceship

The contraprop Fury look-alike is puzzling

The engine was called the L-1000, The plane it self is called the L-133,

 

[Smokey]

Yeah, there is very little info on the plane

Its a real shame that there were problems with the jet engine and some of the bosses in the USAF didn't trust the new technology. As a result it didn't go into service

It makes even modern jets look ancient

 

[FLYBOYJ]

The L-133's wing was used on the P-80

 

[red admiral]

Want me to tell you about the Fury lookalike? Its not surprising it looks like a Fury really.

The Germans were closer to getting the Sanger Hypersonic Orbital bomber to work than the US was of getting the L-133 to fly.