Guess the aircraft thread!

[Mike Rotch]

👍 - nice find.

Try this one. It is not a P-47.

 

[Solid Fro]

It looks like a Tempest, but the wings and tail are wrong.

 

[Mike Rotch]

It was a torpedo-bomber..

 

[Duke]

Off the top of my head I wanted to say it's a Fairey Battle, but that's not right. It kind of looks like a Hawker Sea Fury but I know that's also incorrect... but barking up a closer tree.

[edit] The rudder/stab is saying "Blackburn" to me. Blackburn Firebrand?

 

[Mike Rotch]

Barking up the right tree - it is british, but it isnt a Fairey or a Hawker

[clue] Note the tail wheel, or lack of one [/clue]

 

[Duke]

Heh, I was editing in my answer when you were giving a clue.

Blackburn Firebrand?

 

[Mike Rotch]

Originally posted by neon_duke


[edit] The rudder/stab is saying "Blackburn" to me. Blackburn Firebrand?

Aye, Neon has it!

 

[Duke]

OK, here we go:

 

[Mike Rotch]

Svenska, eh?

 

[Mike Rotch]

Gosh, something didnt look right under that livery the first time round.

Is that a Feisler Storch?!

Edit: I have to go till tomorrow (fri), so somebody else can take my turn if I am correct.

 

[Duke]

Yup. Fiesler Storch. Takeoff roll of about 150 feet, and landing rollout well under 100 feet.

One of you guys who haven't posted many take the next one!

 

[DQuaN]

Ooooh!! Can I have a go?........

 

[Duke]

That would be a Grumman F7F Tigercat. Very pretty but underutilized.

[edit] Next up:

 

[DQuaN]

Is it a Brewster Buffalo?

 

[Duke]

Yup. Did you know that, or look it up?

 

[DQuaN]

Looked it up, Probert Online Encyclopedia......a wealth of aircraft information!
I think I just got lucky really!!!

 

[DQuaN]

here we go.........

 

[Ev0]

I'm pretty sure that's a Bristol Bombay

 

[DQuaN]

Good job Evo.....your go

 

[Ev0]

Next up...

 

[DQuaN]

AICHI B7A

 

[Duke]

You're joking, right?

It's a North American AT-6 Texan... or the Harvard variant since it appears to be flying RCAF colors.

 

[DQuaN]

Originally posted by neon_duke
You're joking, right?

Noooo

They look very similar.....(I thought)

 

[Duke]

Well, in your defense, nearly all of the quote Zeroes unquote in the original Tora Tora Tora were converted T6s:

They cut the canopies down, but you can see the rudder is still the same T6 fin.

 

[Ev0]

You got it Duke, and I never knew that about Tora Tora Tora! I guess you do learn something new everyday.

 

[Duke]

OK, tough one here:

Sorry about the pics, but they're a little hard to find.

 

[keram]

Don't know the plane but that was taken in the Caspian sea.

 

[DQuaN]

Caspian sea monster

 

[Duke]

Also known as...?

 

[keram]

Wig craft? WA-14