The What is it? Game (3 Viewers)

[Airframes]

Mexican FAJ-1TA ...............

 

[GrauGeist]

lol Terry, this is an definately an Allied fighter, but not Mexican (they used American fighters anyway)

This Allied fighter saw combat in the European Theater.

It may not be something currently seen in the UK air museums as it's not too common these days and certainly wouldn't have been seen in Britain during the war (even though it is an Allied fighter)

 

[Catch22]

Apache?

 

[GrauGeist]

Not an Apache, it's not an American fighter

 

[wuzak]

Bloch MB.152?

 

[GrauGeist]

Not a Bloch or French and it was powered by a V-12 liquid cooled engine

 

[wuzak]

Yak 3?

 

[GrauGeist]

Yak 3?

Outstanding job, yes it is a YaK-3M!

Well done

Here it is, at the Redding Airshow in 2009.

 

[wuzak]

The ETO clue threw me a bit. I always thought of the Eastern Front as different to the ETO.

 

[GrauGeist]

Having entered service in 1944, it did see action over European airspace during the last year, but I was trying to avoid mentioning the Ost-front in specific

 

[wuzak]

Try this one.

 

[Capt. Vick]

What is that? A shark being attacked by an octopus?

 

[wuzak]

No, not exactly.

 

[wuzak]

Should I give another pictorial clue?

 

[GrauGeist]

Should I give another pictorial clue?

It's a good enough...is it a bomber?

 

[wuzak]

That was one of the envisioned roles, yes.

 

[GrauGeist]

Is it of German manufacture?

 

[wuzak]

Yes.

 

[GrauGeist]

Me410?

 

[wuzak]

Nope. Not a Messerschmitt.