The What is it? Game

[Capt. Vick]

Hmmmmm.....

 

[Geedee]

Looks like an instrument probe rather than a cannon.

Wondering if its a Tiltrotor or suchlike ?

 

[Geedee]

Looks like nose probe instead of a cannon, bit like an experimental tilt-rotor come thingamybob so I'll throw in with a so I'll throw in Petlyakov Pe-2 ?

 

[Graeme]

Experimental rotor, but no tilting or cannons involved. Not from the USSR.

 

[Capt. Vick]

British?

 

[Graeme]

Not British. Here's a clearer shot of that nose...

 

[GrauGeist]

Looks like a DFS 346

 

[Capt. Vick]

I wish! French?

 

[Graeme]

Looks like a DFS 346

No, but it is German...

 

[Geedee]

Good one !

Think its the Bolkow Bo 46 that was built to test the Derschmidt rotor system that aimed to allow much higher speeds than traditional helicopter designs

 

[Graeme]

Bolkow Bo 46

Nicely done Gary! All yours mate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bölkow_Bo_46

 

[GrauGeist]

Way to go, Gary!

I was trying to remember where I had seen that nose configuration and kept going to DFS projects!

 

[Geedee]

Cheers chaps...needed to do a bit of digging on that one. Was convinced it wasn't a 'normal plane

Have a go at this one ...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Probably wrong, but P-40?

 

[Capt. Vick]

P-59?

 

[Peter Gunn]

Vultee Vengence?

 

[norab]

Zlin. ?

 

[rochie]

My first thought was a Bf 109 E-1 ?

 

[Airframes]

A bit like a Harvard, with that roll bar and canopy frames, but I don't think it is.

 

[Geedee]

Some good guesses there chaps, but not quite right I'm afraid.

Think a bit bigger than what's been suggested