The What is it? Game

[GrauGeist]

GM (Fisher) P-75?

 

[Clayton Magnet]

Maybe a hawker tornado?

 

[wuzak]

No and no.

Earlier than those two.

 

[Clayton Magnet]

Well I'm going to tap out with a last guess, even though it was later than the counter rotating tornado. Curtiss XF14C?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I think it's one of three aircraft. It's either the Seafire Mk. 46 or 47, or it's one of the few Mk. 21 Spitfires that had them.

 

[Clayton Magnet]

I think the clue given would indicate an aircraft earlier than those seafires

 

[wuzak]

Not a XF-14 or Supermarine design.

But it is British.

 

[Clayton Magnet]

Alright, I'm back in. Didn't they build a Hawker Fury with a counter rotating Griffon?

 

[wuzak]

They did. But this is not that.

But you are getting closer.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Martin-Baker 5?

 

[wuzak]

No, not an MB-5.

In its original form it flew several years before the MB-5. In the form shown it flew a year or two before the MB-5.

 

[Clayton Magnet]

Oh man, maybe a Firefly IV? I'm running on fumes here

 

[wuzak]

Not a Firefly.

Not enough cylinders....

 

[Clayton Magnet]

Sooooo, it has a Sabre? Centaurus?

 

[Capt. Vick]

MB-3 or MB-4?

 

[T Bolt]

Fairey Gannet

 

[wuzak]

Not a Martin Baker.

Definitely not a radial engined beast. Though one of its brothers did get a radial.

 

[wuzak]

Fairey Gannet

No, not a Gannet.

This was a prototype aircraft.

 

[GrauGeist]

Not sure of the time they did this, but I know there was a Griffon powered P-51 prototype

 

[Clayton Magnet]

Was there some version of Typhoon or Tempest with counter rotating prop that I'm not thinking about?