Guess the aircraft thread!
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Grandma?! 
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Boeing Bird of Prey
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I have been on all day!
I just logged off because the people from school started to come on.
I'll post up in a bit.
I just logged off because the people from school started to come on.
I'll post up in a bit.
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Not Yakovlev but it is Soviet.
Late '50s.
Late '50s.
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Wow, I finally found it. This was a tough one! Only one of it made, and the engines it was designed around never materialized, so it never performed. I admit I'd never have come up with this without Google.
Myasischev M-50 Bounder.
Myasischev M-50 Bounder.
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That would be a Tupolev Tu4.
Exact copy of the B-29.
Took a little research to discover this must be a Chinese one with the AWACS atop.
Exact copy of the B-29.
Took a little research to discover this must be a Chinese one with the AWACS atop.
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*bing bing bing* Excellent work.
The US wouldn't lend/lease Russia the B-29 because they didn't want to give away their current technology. However, 3 B-29s that were damaged over Japan continues across to the mainland and landed in Soviet territory. The crews were allowed to go home, but the Soviets impounded the aircraft. They took one entirely apart to reverse-engineer it, they flew the heck out of one to see how it performed, and they kept one as a reference standard. In the meantime Tupolev reengineered the plans for metric construction tolerances (and Soviet factory workers), so the Tu-4 is not an exact duplicate in any way. This marked the beginning of the Soviet method of duplicating Western aircraft almost verbatim (look up the Tu-160 for example). The old B-29 copy stayed in active duty well into the late '50s in Russia, with Chinese licensed PLA aircraft like the one here still active into the '60s (note the fitted turboprop engines).
Your go, 911.
The US wouldn't lend/lease Russia the B-29 because they didn't want to give away their current technology. However, 3 B-29s that were damaged over Japan continues across to the mainland and landed in Soviet territory. The crews were allowed to go home, but the Soviets impounded the aircraft. They took one entirely apart to reverse-engineer it, they flew the heck out of one to see how it performed, and they kept one as a reference standard. In the meantime Tupolev reengineered the plans for metric construction tolerances (and Soviet factory workers), so the Tu-4 is not an exact duplicate in any way. This marked the beginning of the Soviet method of duplicating Western aircraft almost verbatim (look up the Tu-160 for example). The old B-29 copy stayed in active duty well into the late '50s in Russia, with Chinese licensed PLA aircraft like the one here still active into the '60s (note the fitted turboprop engines).
Your go, 911.
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Nice pic Duke 
It is possibly a Hawker Audax?
It is possibly a Hawker Audax?
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Hawker Hind it is.neon_duke
Duke's.
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The taildragging looks out-of-place with a jet engine but the wing also looks odd.
It looks familiar as well. I think this is the jet-engined Spitfire (well, Spitfire wing) - the Supermarine Attacker.
It looks familiar as well. I think this is the jet-engined Spitfire (well, Spitfire wing) - the Supermarine Attacker.
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Not a variant of either but described as "bears many design characteristics familiar to the F-16 and F-18".DQuaN
