kool kitty89
Senior Master Sergeant
It could be French...
Aircraft Identification V
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A4K
Brigadier General
I'm in the same boat as Krabat. I've seen this thing before., and think it was a British engine test-bed or something. can't remember off-hand what the hell it was called, or who produced it. Will get back to you on it if I remember, or get a chance to check it out on the net.
Only thing I find that looks like it is Armstong Whitworths answer to Specification P.27/32 (2 seat, single engine day bomber, 200 mph, 1,000lb bomb load, 1,000 mile range), the A.W. 29. 2 built. Designed by John Lloyd. At least according to my Putnam British Bomber book...
pbfoot
1st Lieutenant
that undercarriage looks pretty weak ...no oleos
Yeah, that must be the one, the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.29. The price goes to... Tatatataaa... paaln. And he may give us the next question.
Found the plane here:
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.29
Graeme, do you have an uncropped picture of the plane?
Found the plane here:
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.29
Graeme, do you have an uncropped picture of the plane?
Just returned from annual leave.
That's the one. The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.29.
Sorry Krabat, but no, just thought it was an interesting shot of its ungainly undercarriage.
Nope.
Vickers Type 253. Got the book too now.
Damn, my ammunition is getting lower!
I have to try and beat Wurger on this one! The MiG SN, a variant of the MiG-17, with lateral intakes. It was the first Soviet fighter with such intakes? It was also designed to utilise a gun system that could pivot in the vertical plane. Something similar was intended for the Curtiss F-87 Blackhawk.
It's the MiG SN a, variant of the MiG-17. Graeme is right. But Grampa, you're not far away. I should have erased the Red Star.
I think it would have made a good night fighter. Lots of room for a large radar if you delete the cannon mounts. Maybe two fixed 23mm cannons and two early AAM's would have been a good armament, sufficent for almost everything.
O.K. Next one?
I think it would have made a good night fighter. Lots of room for a large radar if you delete the cannon mounts. Maybe two fixed 23mm cannons and two early AAM's would have been a good armament, sufficent for almost everything.
O.K. Next one?
wingnuts
Airman 1st Class
Applying the AviaQuiz principle of 'simplicity' Krabat I'm just going to call it the Caudron Simoun, made famous by Antione de Saint Exupery. (possibly C.635 or C.635M?)
Wingnut, you've got the remarkable Parnall Prawn, which could alter the thrust line of the engine to escape spray and improve take off from the water. The engine was 'borrowed' from the R101 airship.
Got two for you Krabat (if you accept my answer above!) Both are postwar German designs and produced by the SAME firm. Hope you can't read the registration on the first one!
p47thunderbolt
Airman
Hi Graeme,
my good friend Krabat asked me if i perhaps knew those two birds. I´d say we have here the Puetzer Bussard (large b/w) and the nice little Puetzer Elster B. Correct?
Christopher
How about this:
my good friend Krabat asked me if i perhaps knew those two birds. I´d say we have here the Puetzer Bussard (large b/w) and the nice little Puetzer Elster B. Correct?
Christopher
How about this:
Hi Christopher,
Correct! Do you know much about the Bussard? According to the internet one was restored in 1977 but its fate was "unknown". Interesting aircraft. The little detail that came with the photo explained that the engine was in the nose driving a pusher prop by a 19ft 8 in "flexibly-mounted" shaft.
Looks like the Koolhoven FK 56.
Correct! Do you know much about the Bussard? According to the internet one was restored in 1977 but its fate was "unknown". Interesting aircraft. The little detail that came with the photo explained that the engine was in the nose driving a pusher prop by a 19ft 8 in "flexibly-mounted" shaft.
Looks like the Koolhoven FK 56.
