The What is it? Game

[T Bolt]

I spent over an hour looking at walk-arounds on the net at the nose gear of every multi-engined prop plane I could find and still came up empty.

 

[Airframes]

A pure guess, based on the stars visible on the inside of the door. Maybe the personal transport of a General, so I'll try Lockheed Constellation.

 

[ccheese]

An R7V [Super Connie]...

Charles

 

[Airframes]

That's probably the one Charles - I'm not much good at the numbering system for US aircraft. Connie or Super Connie, that's what I'm plumping for.

 

[Geedee]

The picture is main undercarriage doors

Its not a Connie

Its not an American design

 

[Airframes]

Too 'flat' for something like a Shackleton. Airspeed Ambassador?

 

[Geedee]

Not an Ambassador....or a Shak

I'm out for a few hours but will be back on line later.

Final clue for today....just to keep you stewing.....its not flying with original engines

 

[Airframes]

That Ilyushin thingy which looks like a Dakota with a nosewheel ?

 

[Geedee]

Its not a

Ilyushin thingy which looks like a Dakota with a nosewheel ?

 

[Airframes]

Right! I've just ruptured myself picking up 'The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft', I've got a pin ready to stick in pages, so I'll be back with an answer around February.....!!
It's multi-engined, has a tricycle undercart, isn't American, and we now know what the inside of the main gear doors look like! That narrows it down to a couple of thousand types!
I haven't a bl**dy clue!!!!

 

[Geedee]

Dont forget the engines !

 

[Airframes]

Oops! How silly of me to forget!
It isn't American, it's tricycle undercart, got pretty stars on the inside of the main gear doors, and it's multi-engined, but not the engines it started out with.
And I still haven't a bl**dy clue!!!

 

[T Bolt]

I'm with you Terry!! Spent hours looking and came up with nothing

 

[Airframes]

Maybe it's a B One R D (B1RD) !!!

 

[Smoke]

Blackburn Beverly or a Bloch MB.200?

Or..

A Henschel Hs 129?

 

[Airframes]

Beverley had fixed undercart, didn't have a change of engine type, and there aren't any left flying. I don't think it's a Bloch or Henschel, gives the impression of something larger.
EDIT: Or smaller! Meteor.

 

[Smoke]

I still think it's an Hs 129...

I had the engine change, int's multi-engine, it's non American, and it has wings that match the picture.

 

[T Bolt]

Bloch MB.200 and Henschel Hs 129 are both tail draggers, so no nose wheel.

 

[Airframes]

And the pic only shows the main gear door.
Change of engine type...Hmm! Meteor, Comet, Bucanneer come to mind. the shape of the hinge line on the door doesn't look like a Buc, and I think it's too 'light' for the Comet, so I'll stick with Meteor for now.

 

[T Bolt]

Prop powered Terry. No jets.

Its a nosed wheeled propeller driven non American mulit-engined aircraft. Got to be post war. I can't think of any prop driven tricycle gear plane before the end of the war that wasn't American built except maybe some German makes that if in existence at all are defiantly not flying today.