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red admiral
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I'll leave the other for a while. In the meantime, what is this?
Aircraft Identification V
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I'll leave the other for a while. In the meantime, what is this?
Blackburn B20
It was designed to reduce drag by having a the fuselage open like a giant landing skid for water opertion and close in flight to reduce frontal area.
Duncan Roberts, Sam McMillan and Flt Lt Bailey were lost with the prototype, Flt Lt Bailey stayed with the aircraft until the last possible moment to give the other two crew members a chance to escape, his parachute did not open fully and he was drowned
It was nicknamed the "nutcracker", referring to the fate of anyone on the central float when it was retracted.
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/blackburn_b20.htm
It was designed to reduce drag by having a the fuselage open like a giant landing skid for water opertion and close in flight to reduce frontal area.
Duncan Roberts, Sam McMillan and Flt Lt Bailey were lost with the prototype, Flt Lt Bailey stayed with the aircraft until the last possible moment to give the other two crew members a chance to escape, his parachute did not open fully and he was drowned
It was nicknamed the "nutcracker", referring to the fate of anyone on the central float when it was retracted.
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/blackburn_b20.htm
Wildcat
Major
Crazy!
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red admiral
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Crazy? It would have worked quite well without the vultures.
The one I posted before that various people guessed as a Fury Prototype and the Martin-Baker 5 are wrong. The aircraft is actually a Hawker Tempest powered by a Rolls-Royce Eagle engine giving 3500hp. 500mph+.
Now, what is this? Or these?
The one I posted before that various people guessed as a Fury Prototype and the Martin-Baker 5 are wrong. The aircraft is actually a Hawker Tempest powered by a Rolls-Royce Eagle engine giving 3500hp. 500mph+.
Now, what is this? Or these?
cheddar cheese
Major General
Is that the planned "Super Stirling"?
Supermarine Type 317 or B12/36
It is also interesting to look at one design that never got into the air; the Supermarine bomber. In designing the Spitfire Mitchell had pioneered a unique method of wing construction, the single spar with a thick metal leading edge. If this leading edge section could be filled with fuel it promised an aircraft with a very thin wing and slim aerodynamic fuselage while still having large fuel capacity. The Supermarine Bomber (project B12/36) would have carried a bomb-load almost as great as the Lancaster at greater heights and at a speed close to that of the Spitfire! In short the B12/36 could have given the RAF a bomber superior to every other W.W.II type except the B29 Superfortress. As it was, Supermarine just did not have the workforce or factory capacity to push forward the project and when the prototype was destroyed on its jigs, during the Luftwaffe attack on the Woolston Supermarine factory in September 1940, the bomber project was cancelled.
Several contenders submitted their designs to the Air Ministry, namely Armstrong Whitworth, Short and Supermarine. Prototypes of the Short and Supermarine types were ordered. Somewhere along the line during the building of the prototypes the Supermarine factory where the Supermarine Type 317 prototype, powered with four Bristol Hercules radials, was being built was bombed. It was only partially complete before the German raid, while after the raid there was only wreckage left. Subsequently, Supermarine then cancelled the project.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/shorstirling.html#shorstirlingverstab
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/spitmich.htm
Another pic:
http://www.rjmitchell-spitfire.co.uk/otheraircraft/1932to1937.asp?sectionID=4
Supermarine Works, facing river Itchen, Woolston, Southampton
http://www.supermarine-spitfire.co.uk/memories.html
It is also interesting to look at one design that never got into the air; the Supermarine bomber. In designing the Spitfire Mitchell had pioneered a unique method of wing construction, the single spar with a thick metal leading edge. If this leading edge section could be filled with fuel it promised an aircraft with a very thin wing and slim aerodynamic fuselage while still having large fuel capacity. The Supermarine Bomber (project B12/36) would have carried a bomb-load almost as great as the Lancaster at greater heights and at a speed close to that of the Spitfire! In short the B12/36 could have given the RAF a bomber superior to every other W.W.II type except the B29 Superfortress. As it was, Supermarine just did not have the workforce or factory capacity to push forward the project and when the prototype was destroyed on its jigs, during the Luftwaffe attack on the Woolston Supermarine factory in September 1940, the bomber project was cancelled.
Several contenders submitted their designs to the Air Ministry, namely Armstrong Whitworth, Short and Supermarine. Prototypes of the Short and Supermarine types were ordered. Somewhere along the line during the building of the prototypes the Supermarine factory where the Supermarine Type 317 prototype, powered with four Bristol Hercules radials, was being built was bombed. It was only partially complete before the German raid, while after the raid there was only wreckage left. Subsequently, Supermarine then cancelled the project.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/shorstirling.html#shorstirlingverstab
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/spitmich.htm
Another pic:
http://www.rjmitchell-spitfire.co.uk/otheraircraft/1932to1937.asp?sectionID=4
Supermarine Works, facing river Itchen, Woolston, Southampton
http://www.supermarine-spitfire.co.uk/memories.html
Crazy stuff.
Dogwalker
Senior Airman
I think it's easy, but someone requested more pics of this plane (one of my favourites) in the past
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y262/DogW/073e2321.jpg
Just a present.
Sorry for the intrusion if you already know these.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y262/DogW/073e2321.jpg
Just a present.
Sorry for the intrusion if you already know these.
cheddar cheese
Major General
Now theres an Italian plane I dont recognise... 
Unless it isnt really Italian...
Argh Now im angry
Unless it isnt really Italian...
Argh Now im angry
JCS
Senior Airman
I think its a Caproni Vizzola something or other...
cheddar cheese
Major General
You may be right, it almost looks like an F.6 with a Radial...
Dogwalker
Senior Airman
Not proper a radial. 
DogW
DogW
cheddar cheese
Major General
Aha! The name escapes me but I've seen profile of a certain Caproni/ Reggiane with a jet similar to that of the Caproni-Campini CC.2, as well as a prop at the front...
Were any of them made? Is it one of them?
Were any of them made? Is it one of them?
JCS
Senior Airman
This ones starting to bug me, I used to know it and had a picture of it but I deleted my plane folder a few weeks ago when I became less interested in planes.....now I cant seem to remember any of them... 
Dogwalker
Senior Airman
No, no, it's something more convenctional, and yes, it's a Caproni Vizzola "F series" fighter.
DogW
DogW
JCS
Senior Airman
Is it an F.5?
cheddar cheese
Major General
It looks a little too modern for an F.5...
An F.6Z?
An F.6Z?
Dogwalker
Senior Airman
You got it. It's the last of the series, the F6z, with the Isotta Fraschini 24 cilindres - air cooled - X configurated (and finally reliable 
) - "Zeta" engine.
The pics were taken at Guidonia Airport, where te plane was tested until 8 september 1943.
DogW
) - "Zeta" engine.The pics were taken at Guidonia Airport, where te plane was tested until 8 september 1943.
DogW
cheddar cheese
Major General
Hooray I got it! Thats a nice pic 8)
Thats a nice pic 8)
Dogwalker
Senior Airman
Just a little too big, I know. Forgive me, and say what plane is it (yes the holes in the nose are guns).
DogW
