What Cockpit? MK V
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Caproni Ca.133?
As an aside, Stevef guessed the Spartan Cruiser, (thread #2481). A very credible guess, I might add, as the design was based on the elegant Saro-Percival Mail Plane. Built in collaboration with Saunders-Roe, it was indeed a tri-motor aeroplane built in the 1930s.
As an aside, Stevef guessed the Spartan Cruiser, (thread #2481). A very credible guess, I might add, as the design was based on the elegant Saro-Percival Mail Plane. Built in collaboration with Saunders-Roe, it was indeed a tri-motor aeroplane built in the 1930s.
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Mel is correct. 
It is indeed the in-house built and designed Dryden/NASA
M2-F1 lifting body/glider. An engineer who worked on the Hughes Hercules flying boat assisted in the building of the M2-F1's wooden fuselage. A 1963 Pontiac was used to tow the M2-F1 aloft on its maiden flight. Chuck Yeager was one of several test pilots to fly this bird back to earth.
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It is indeed the in-house built and designed Dryden/NASAM2-F1 lifting body/glider. An engineer who worked on the Hughes Hercules flying boat assisted in the building of the M2-F1's wooden fuselage. A 1963 Pontiac was used to tow the M2-F1 aloft on its maiden flight. Chuck Yeager was one of several test pilots to fly this bird back to earth.
You have control.
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I understand that the M2-F1 lifting body/glider also undertook some 100 air tows behind NASA's C47.
This next one will cause no problems I am sure.
This next one will cause no problems I am sure.
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There's something familiar about this one, but I just can`t place it... so if it's not too early in the challenge some elimination tactics...
British, Military, 50's 2 engines...
British, Military, 50's 2 engines...
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British, Military, 50's 2 engines...
Wild guess...
A Gannet that has seen better days?