The What is it? Game

[Graeme]

Здравствуйте! Comrade Jim!

The Kazan KAI UPB (Uchyebno Perekhodnoi Bombardirovshchik)
Another shot - from behind and that guy is still standing up...

 

[Capt. Vick]

That'll do! Why the number, was she in a race? Anyway Sir you are up again.

 

[Graeme]

Thanks Jim. I don't think the Kazan was racing anywhere - so dunno why the number.

Next...

 

[GrauGeist]

Looks like the McDonnel FH-1

 

[Capt. Vick]

That French trainer with the V tail?

 

[Graeme]

That French trainer with the V tail?

That'll do me Jim - The navalised Fouga C.M 175 Zephyr. I'll try and post the full image later - I had a lot of trouble with the photo.
Cheers!

 

[GrauGeist]

Well done, Jim!

Thanks Jim. I don't think the Kazan was racing anywhere - so dunno why the number.

That doesn't look like a "racing" number.

It literally says: sssr-i124

 

[Graeme]

Well done, Jim!

It literally says: sssr-i124

Hi Dave. I think/thought Jim was wondering about the "26" on the nose.

Here's that full photo...

 

[Token]

That'll do! Why the number, was she in a race? Anyway Sir you are up again.

Yes, she was in a race. This is the KAI-3 as she competed in a 1935 cross-Russian race.

T!

 

[pinehilljoe]

Fouga CM.170 Magister

 

[Capt. Vick]

Oh sorry guys! I forgot. Will post tomorrow!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Try this one, it should be easy...

 

[pinehilljoe]

An early English Electric built Canberra?

 

[Graeme]

The needle-nosed X-3?

 

[Capt. Vick]

You are correct sir! The X-3 Stiletto

 

[GrauGeist]

Well done, Graeme!

I actually thought that clue looked a great deal like the Me P.1101/Bell X-5

 

[Graeme]

Thanks Jim.

Next...

 

[Capt. Vick]

French?

 

[Graeme]

French?

Ahhh....you're onto me again - yes, it's French.

 

[Graeme]

From Jane's...

"Twenty-six- passenger flying-boat for Air France's Mediterranean routes. Power was provided by four Hispano-Suiza 12X liquid-cooled engines mounted in the leading edge of the high monoplane wing. The prototype was followed by six production aircraft in 1939, five of which operated the Marseille-Algiers route. The sixth had a glazed bow and defensive armament and was used as a military reconnaissance aircraft during 1939-40."