Guess the aircraft thread!

[Ev0]

Nose landing gear eh? P-39? I'd know for sure if the photographer hadn't cut off the nose

 

[911_Carrera]

Bell P-39 Airacobra

Like this one?

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~jjuvonen/jyvaskyla2001/airacobra.jpg

Evo's go?

 

[ExigeEvan]

Kevin, why don't you get your own user instead of using jacks? He is taking all the cred.

 

[Ev0]

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[911_Carrera]

P51 Mustang

With contra-rotating props.

An experimental version?

 

[High-Test]

Fairey gannet?

 

[Duke]

Actually, EvO's ID of my airplane was not correct. It's not a P-39.

But that's a Martin-Baker MB-5. I did know it, but it has also already been posted.

So this aircraft is still open:

 

[Ev0]

If it's not a P-39 I'll guess it's it's cousin the P-63, although I'm not sure if the Soviets used some of them.

 

[911_Carrera]

It doesn't look like the P63 Kingcobra to me.

I thought the dorsal intake was much larger on the Kingcobra.

But there were plenty of Soviet P63s.

I still think it is a P39.

I am eager to be enlightened.

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by Ev0
If it's not a P-39 I'll guess it's it's cousin the P-63, although I'm not sure if the Soviets used some of them.

It is the P-63 King Cobra, which is actually a totally new design despite the similarity to the P-39. Look at the rudders on the two different aricraft to tell which is which.

In fact, most of the 2500 or so P-63s produced got Lend/Leased to the Russians.

Your go, Ev0.

 

[Ev0]

After looking closely at the P-39 and the P-63, there is a small difference in the tail.

If you can figure out what's going on here this should be easy.

 

[The359]

A "parasite" aircraft trying to hook up with a zepplin/airship. Basically an "airborne aircraft carrier". As for the airship or the plane, I have no clue.

 

[High-Test]

Curtiss sparrowhawk

 

[Ev0]

menglan got it, your turn

 

[911_Carrera]

The big flying thing is the USS Los Angeles ZR-3

The small flying thing trying to hook-up to it is probably a Vought UO-1.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zr3-m.htm


I don't believe it is a Sparrowhawk hooking on to the USS Macon. That has parallel wings not the upward dihedral of the lower wing in this photo.

 

[The359]

The Vought has 2 sets of vertical struts on it's wings though, the plane in the picture doesn't.

 

[911_Carrera]

Found it!

It is a Sperry Messenger

Earlier airship parasite experiments

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4305/p169a.jpg

See the three cylinders.

 

[911_Carrera]

No, still wrong. Engine would be on upside-down.

 

[911_Carrera]

Now I think I have it.

Consolidated N2Y-1 two-seater trainer.

Used to train the Sparrowhawk pilots on the same airships.

Engine looks right. Primitive landing gear looks right.

I think I'm taking this much too seriously.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/n-types/n2y.htm

Tired now.

 

[Ev0]

I searched for "F9C Sparrowhawk" in the images section on google and it gave me the wrong plane??? Shoulda looked at the landing gear and seen the lack of wheelwells... Bah, I feel bad now

I have no clue who should go next, menglan got the plane I meant to post, but carerra got the real plane in the pic...

 

[High-Test]

oh well. 911 carrera's go

 

[911_Carrera]

Another biplane.

Who is this Nazi?

 

[Solid Fro]

I doubt the plane is German, despite the Nazi markings.

 

[Mike Rotch]

A Fokker perhaps?

 

[Ev0]

It's got Finnish markings circa WWII. But I have no idea what make it is.

 

[Mike Rotch]

It looks a lot like a Gloster Gladiator.

 

[DQuaN]

Is it a Bucker of some sort?
Or possibly a Henshel?

 

[Mike Rotch]

Looks similar to some buckers, but the wings almost seem "swept forward" in the above pic.

 

[DQuaN]

It looks alot like a Letov s328 but the tail is just slightly different.

 

[DQuaN]

I think my last guess will be MERIDIONALI RO.37. (although I doubt that it's correct). Other than that I am stumped.