The What is it? Game

[Marcogrifo]

I was just thinking to post this here:

Too easy? Too hard?

Cheers

 

[Lighthunmust]

Looks pretty hard to me. Is it a Klingon Battlecruiser or Piscasso designed Cubist Stealth Drone? I guess I have to do some more head scratching and research.

 

[Airframes]

Its a fin tip pod on something - F111 maybe?

 

[Marcogrifo]

Its a fin tip pod on something - F111 maybe?

Sorry, not an Aardvark.

Cheers

 

[Geedee]

Looks like an experimental or high speed research A/C of some sort going by the angles on that surface. Was thinking one of the Fairey research jobbies but it aint one of those

 

[Lighthunmust]

Could it be a partial picture of an engine intake for a stealth drone?

 

[Marcogrifo]

Could it be a partial picture of an engine intake for a stealth drone?

No, sorry.
No helos, drones or blimps, anything but planes in my quizzes...

The first hint: though the F-111 has nothing to do with it has a very peculiar similarity with the quiz airplane

Cheers

 

[Capt. Vick]

It's the Grumman Jaguar...see below


"The entrance to the cockpit of this aircraft is most difficult. It should have been made impossible." — Flight Journal magazine, April 2000, regards the XF10F-1, Grumman's first attempt at a swing wing fighter.

 

[Marcogrifo]

Yes Vick, that is

The XF10F-1 Jaguar was a tipical experimental weird design from the mighty fifties.
It had a two positon swing-wing system:

From Wikipedia:

The unique horizontal stabilizer design was free-floating; the attached small foreplane was directly controlled by the pilot and pulled the stabilizer up or down; so, it was aerodynamically, not mechanically controlled, and this resulted in sluggish pitch control, increasingly so at low speeds where airflow over the small foreplane was lessened, and if the project had developed further, it probably would have been replaced by a conventional all-flying tailplane. The unpredictable behavior of the design often caused pilot-induced oscillations, with the sudden and erratic deployment of leading edge slats causing the aircraft to be nearly uncontrollable much of the time.

Cheers

 

[Airframes]

Bl**dy good call Cpt V !! At least I was in the right area with the fin pod.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Can someone else takeover. Been bumming the last few days. Sorry fellas...

 

[T Bolt]

Here's one:

 

[Lighthunmust]

Looks like a european amphibian to me. Is it an amphibious Walrus if there was such a thing?

 

[pbfoot]

sea king

 

[T Bolt]

Not a Walrus or a Sea King

 

[Airframes]

Looks like one of those things to me - a Wil... can't say that word !

 

[vikingBerserker]

I was thinking the same thing, but the landing gear does not look right.

 

[Marcogrifo]

Hmm, I don't think it's a seaplane...

 

[T Bolt]

Looks like one of those things to me - a Wil... can't say that word !

I wouldn't do that to you Terry! It isn't one to those "Grumman fighters", but that was a good call, the landing gear arrangement is similar, and it is not a seaplane or a flying boat.

 

[Marcogrifo]

A Brewster one?

Cheers