The What is it? Game (33 Viewers)

[windhund116]

BTW... did you get this one?

 

[SaparotRob]

Nope.

 

[Wurger]

The Plymouth A-A-2004, a Flettner rotor aircraft using the Magnus effect to lift the plane , 1930.

 

[windhund116]

The Plymouth A-A-2004, a Flettner rotor aircraft using the Magnus effect to lift the plane , 1930.

I knew that one was too easy. One-off prototype, I believe. Didn't Flettner develop the first production rotor helicopter?

Flettner Fl 282.

Kolibri is such a great name. Hummingbird.

 

[windhund116]

Another easy one. Extra credit: what unit?

 

[SaparotRob]

Mitsubishi G3M? That's all I got.

 

[Snautzer01]

Hamilton prop.

 

[windhund116]

Hamilton prop.

Yes. Under license.

 

[windhund116]

Hint: Early pre-WW2 photo. This Air Group went on to combat, first in China and later in SWPA (renamed 707 Kokutai).

 

[windhund116]

Answer: text under photo says: Kisarazu Kokutai development and testing of G3M prototypes.

 

[Capt. Vick]

How about this one I just found out about today?

 

[Graeme]

Ago Ao 192.

 

[GrauGeist]

Good call, Graeme.

At first glance, I was thinking a Gotha Go146, but the nose was a bit long.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I swear, you show a pic of a rivet and the man will tell you the plane, mark, where it was built and what the riveter had for lunch!

 

[herman1rg]

I swear, you show a pic of a rivet and the man will tell you the plane, mark, where it was built and what the riveter had for lunch!

And probably their name also.

 

[Graeme]

Thanks, but that's not really me. I just have a reasonable memory and still remember seeing it in a 1977 edition of Air International in a section called Plane Facts where readers would write in requesting information on an aircraft.
Remember those days - when people would write?

 

[windhund116]

Is that a Schwartz made propeller? Logo doesn't look VDM.

Thanks!

 

[GrauGeist]

Probably a Schwartz, from the looks of the logo.
It certainly doesn't look like VDM, Heine or Junkers.
Heine was about equal to Schwartz in regards to supplying two-bladed props to the German aircraft industry.

 

[windhund116]

Thanks, for the reply.

The Ao 192 would make a nice model. Very sleek looking.

 

[Wurger]

Actually not Schwartz but Schwarz. And yes that's the firm logo ..

Schwarz Decal 1939. Photo: M. Peikert
the source: Schwarz Propellerwerk, Germany | PolishPropellers.com