The What is it? Game

[Airframes]

Neither of the above, but I can see why you're both thinking along those lines. First clue - it's role could be described as similar to the descendants of W4050.

 

[Tankworks]

I think it is the nose of a Tornado but I haven't found the right picture yet.

 

[Airframes]

Not a Tornado, but it is post WW2.

 

[woljags]

canberra

 

[Airframes]

Not a Canberra, but it is jet powered.

 

[Capt. Vick]

It looks like an abstract art painting. I'm totally stumped.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I'm with Capt Vic on this one, it is something by Monet??????

 

[GrauGeist]

Ok...is it:
1) Allied?
2) Single engined?
3) bigger than a bread box?
4) All of the above

 

[Airframes]

OK, it's single-engined, 'western', a bit bigger than a bread box, comes, originally, from a long lineage, but hasmaybe jumped ahead of its time since then.

 

[GrauGeist]

Well, I'll go with my original hunch...

Is it the Lockheed U2?

 

[Airframes]

Not a U2. It featured in a well-known photograph, possibly 'faked', showing a suggestive formation flying past an historic building .....
And another, bigger clue - its undercarriage features five wheels .......

 

[wuzak]

Mirage 2000?

 

[Airframes]

Not a Mirage.

 

[Tankworks]

Five wheels puts us into the realm of Harrier but I have not found corroboration.

 

[Airframes]

If you saw this 'live', it would certainly blind you - from a long distance, from this bird of prey .....

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I now remember a thread on the discussion of this bird but cannot remember the name of said bird so I cannot find the thread either.

 

[Airframes]

Clues are becoming harder, without giving away the answer, but, this is a single-seat aircraft, although two-seat trainers of earlier versions have existed.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Did Slim Pickens ride one of these in "Dr. Strange Love?"

 

[Airframes]

Nice one - but no !

 

[Geedee]

I'm thinking P1127 'Kestrel', but I dont recognise the color !

Yup, wrong !