The What is it? Game (1 Viewer)

[Clayton Magnet]

It certainly is. I was hoping the lack of a spinner on the Canadian built Mk.XII would throw some people off. But the fat Hawker wing with two .303's outboard was still visible.

Taken at the Reynolds museum in Alberta, also home to the Canadian aviation hall of fame.
Off to you, Capt.Vick...

 

[Capt. Vick]

Yeah for me! Try this one:

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man I would never have guessed that one with that spinner, nicely done Jim!

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Jim.
As for the new one, I have no idea ! Looks like an Ambassador with a Comet's nose and jet engines !

 

[Capt. Vick]

Thanks brothers.

Yeah, I just learned about this one last night. And those are not jets...

 

[Airframes]

I think I've seen it somewhere before, and think it's a Dornier design, something like Do 31 or Do316.

 

[Capt. Vick]

It does seem like that Terry, now that you say it, but it is not German. Hint?

 

[Airframes]

Hmm. My brain hurts ....................

 

[vikingBerserker]

This is sad, we have a pic of most of the aircraft and I got nothing.

 

[GrauGeist]

It has the looks of an Antonov

 

[Capt. Vick]

Don't beat yourself up brother. It's so rare that they never flew it!

 

[Geedee]

It's a Sud-Aviation Haventgotafrikkinclue

 

[Clayton Magnet]

Thats funny, my first thought was Sud-aviation too. Turned up nothing

 

[GrauGeist]

Don't beat yourself up brother. It's so rare that they never flew it!

Ok man...it's time for you to be forth-coming with clues for the clueless masses!

First off, is it a Soviet (Russian) design?

 

[Geedee]

Probably find it's not a Russian design...looks too pretty...and that it's some kind of helicopter / auto gyro , bit like the Fairy Rotodyne concept. Probably got a fixed undercart as well, hanging from what looks like the engine pods

 

[vikingBerserker]

Wait second, is that a bird concerted into a house?????????????

 

[Capt. Vick]

It is Russian.
The role it was supposed to play was eventually filled by an Antonov.
The designer left his native country when the fascist came to power there.

 

[Airframes]

Ah, it's a Caproniovishin !

 

[norab]

even though it's not the most common picture of it, let's try the VVA-14

 

[Airframes]

It certainly loos more like the Dornier, as seen in this pic from the Dornier Museum at Friederickshaven.