Guess the aircraft thread!

[911_Carrera]

Is a bit missing from this plane?


Careful, Menglan. I think it may be illegal to practice Welsh without a licence.

(all I can say now is dau-deg dau.)

Close, but no cneuen goco (coconut). Welsh consonants have a nasty habit of mutating. It would be dau-ddeg dau.

For example; you might hear a word beginning with f and look to the f section of your dictionary (flwyddyn, or fam). Sadly you should be looking under b or m (blwyddyn, mam) because the Welsh have mutated them in a sentence just to catch out the Saeson (the English - the Welsh call them Saxons).

 

[Duke]

That's a Miles flying wing, which means it's a... a... a... hrm. Maybe not...?

 

[911_Carrera]

That's a Miles flying wing, which means it's a... a... a... hrm. Maybe not...?

Not a Miles. And it's not an HRM either, though it is a TLA.

(i.e. the plane name is a Three Letter Acronym)

 

[911_Carrera]

Not a Miles. And it's not an HRM either, though it is a TLA.

(i.e. the plane name is a Three Letter Acronym)

OK. No-one playing. I will post a new one.

The last was the General Aircraft gal56 - almost unflyable, apparently.

This biplane has an almost unbelieveable technical trick up its sleeve

 

[ExigeEvan]

Dw i'n dwp. Dw i'n ddim yn hoffi chwarae 'guess the aircraft'.

 

[911_Carrera]

Dw i'n dwp. Dw i'n ddim yn hoffi chwarae 'guess the aircraft'.

Pam? Beth ydych eich problem chi?

 

[Duke]

HA! This one I know. It's a Bi-mono. The top wing was removable. I forget the manufacturer, houwever.

 

[911_Carrera]

HA! This one I know. It's a Bi-mono. The top wing was removable. I forget the manufacturer, houwever.

A Hillson Bi-Mono

Not just removable. The top wing was designed to be jetisoned or "slipped" in flight. Hence the guards or fences on the tail surfaces to protect the tail as the wing flew off.

The idea was that the fully-laden plane would need the two wings to get off the ground but then would want to be a monoplane to do the fighting.

They only did it the once but, perhaps surprisingly, it actually worked. At 40,000 feet the wing was slipped and the plane flew happily and landed as a monoplane. Can you imagine being the test pilot of a plane when you know the wing is going to come off!

Duke's turn

 

[ExigeEvan]

Achos mae 'Guess the aircraft' yn stresforol a annodd.

 

[Duke]

 

[911_Carrera]

Is that a Handley Page Hampden?

I think it's the Hampden with the radial engines and the Hereford with the in-line

 

[Duke]

You are correct about the Hampden and Hereford, but this plan is neither of them. Good guess, however.

 

[reddog78]

Looks like the Hayabusa Medium Bomber.

 

[Duke]

Also a good guess, but also incorrect!

 

[reddog78]

I might get this guess wrong, too.......but, I wonder if this just might be the Martin B-18 that was discussed in the book 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo' when I read as a kid in my elementary school days.

 

[911_Carrera]

That was a total fokker


In fact a Fokker T-IX.

 

[Duke]

Hah! This thread is back from the dead, and 911 gets the gold! Nice work, big guy, that was probably my most devillish yet. Wow us!

 

[911_Carrera]

This plane doesn't seem to possess very intimidating defensive weaponry.


It's from a manufacturer whose better-known contribution to the war was much less powerful.

 

[reddog78]

I could easily be way off base on this one.....but, I would have to ponder a guess as being the Avro Anson.

 

[911_Carrera]

I could easily be way off base on this one.....but, I would have to ponder a guess as being the Avro Anson.

I don't think "way off base" is a fair description. "Wrong" would be. But this is a contemporary of the Anson.

 

[reddog78]

Then, possibly, it might be the Avro Manchester that was 'mis-guessed' on various other aircraft of that time period.

The main clue is that the scenery just doesn't fit as being of an aircraft built in the States. Therefore, the only other logical spot is England.

 

[911_Carrera]

Then, possibly, it might be the Avro Manchester that was 'mis-guessed' on various other aircraft of that time period.

The main clue is that the scenery just doesn't fit as being of an aircraft built in the States. Therefore, the only other logical spot is England.

Not an Avro Manchester. Not an Avro.

Avro Manchester was a much bigger plane. In fact; the Manchester was the size of a four-engined bomber but with two engines. Not good. Then they put two more engines on it and called it the Lancaster. Much better.

Yes; it is flying over England (a small country next to Wales).

 

[DQuaN]

Major Bump!!!

Avro Anson?



*edit*

My resurection plan had one minor flaw...........


Does anyone know when Jack will be back from his tour of SA?




*edit2* Just noticed the post above that says it's not an Avro. Boy did I make a mess of this resurection. I will leave it to the dark forces from now on. It's obviously a power that I have no grasp of.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Well thought through Dunc.

Well I suppose Jack wouldn't complain if we revived the thread in his absence, or if you started a whole new thread

 

[Duke]

It was my thread to begin with! And that's an Airspeed Envoy. I forget what the designation was.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Yep Google confirms.

Airspeed AS6 Envoy.

Your go.

 

[Evolution.]

 

[Duke]

Hey, thanks for joining the fun, MachOne, but you gotta guess right before you post one up! Give this one a go:

 

[ExigeEvan]

The world's largest paper aeroplane?

 

[High-Test]

I wanna say it's a Pfalz (wasn't that a WWI aircraft company?)