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Sukhoi-2 Wing leading-edge paradox!!
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Now that is weird innit Graeme?? Maybe it's summat akin to the way the water goes down the plug-holes in the Southern Hemisphere 
These, plus the one I originally posted, are what I find when I search the web, explain that!!
Originally Posted by Noyade
because everything I have does NOT show that straight-edged bit...
These, plus the one I originally posted, are what I find when I search the web, explain that!!
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explain that!!
Your boat looks Italian?
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Hello everybody and happy Easter!
It sure does... I've been searching all the afternoon and can't figure this out...
Very similar to a Macchi M33, but the pilot position is all wrong. Also, almost all Italian flying boats have their engines underslung from the top wing, and this apparently has it placed on top.
Very rare "scalp-tractor" prop arrangement also...
Also some elements similar to Curtiss designs.
This also seems more a sesquiplane than a biplane.
The four white dots make me think it's an 8-cylinder, but I might be wrong.
The tail's a riddle. Couldn't find anything even remotely similar.
And I sifted through a lot of stuff.
I don't know why but I suspect that this is going to be really as easy (maybe even self-evident?) as SincoTC said anc I'll curse myself a lot...
Your boat looks Italian?
Very similar to a Macchi M33, but the pilot position is all wrong. Also, almost all Italian flying boats have their engines underslung from the top wing, and this apparently has it placed on top.
Very rare "scalp-tractor" prop arrangement also...
Also some elements similar to Curtiss designs.
This also seems more a sesquiplane than a biplane.
The four white dots make me think it's an 8-cylinder, but I might be wrong.
The tail's a riddle. Couldn't find anything even remotely similar.
And I sifted through a lot of stuff.
I don't know why but I suspect that this is going to be really as easy (maybe even self-evident?) as SincoTC said anc I'll curse myself a lot...
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G'day Graeme,
Good theory mate, I suspect that there's a hell of a lot of duff info about and a lot of it on the web too, but the better methods of exchange will bring it to light, maybe when I retire I'll have time to correct some of them on Wiki before someone screw the lid down on me!!
Sorry mate it's not Italian.
Good theory mate, I suspect that there's a hell of a lot of duff info about and a lot of it on the web too, but the better methods of exchange will bring it to light, maybe when I retire I'll have time to correct some of them on Wiki before someone screw the lid down on me!!
Sorry mate it's not Italian.
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Welcome back HappyPass and Happy Easter to you too 
I was about to answer your comments, but I've just seen that the "Wizard of Oz" has struck again!!
Well done Graeme, it is the ill fated Blackburn Pellet
Indeed it was! quite an advanced engine for its time Napier Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You should have started fishing for clues before Graeme's alarm went off HP, the engine would have been an early one
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I was about to answer your comments, but I've just seen that the "Wizard of Oz" has struck again!!
Well done Graeme, it is the ill fated Blackburn Pellet
The Blackburn Pellet was a single-engined, single-seater biplane flying boat designed as a contender for the 1923 Schneider Trophy competition. It was destroyed whilst taking off for the trials of the contest.
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aaargh... the third row was on top!!! 
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Where is this list/row HP?
The top-row exhausts of the large-arrow configuration are hidden (exhaust pipes point to the right) and can be easily seen in the top view from of the Aviastar 3-view drawing.
Seeing 4 white circlets in the silhouette I assumed it was an 8-cylinder engine...
Trevor, I'm feeling sorry for those Russians in the Su-2 (your bottom right illustration above) - they're done for! 
How do you get all those illustrations to stack like that? I can only manage one above the other.
How do you get all those illustrations to stack like that? I can only manage one above the other.
3 * 4 exhausts = 12 cylinders.
You need to find a list of Schneider Trophy aircraft for mine.
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How do you get all those illustrations to stack like that? I can only manage one above the other
I thought yours looks a bit Macchi-39 ish, but we've had that one
Then it's an M52
Actually, I had a look at the M.39 and a few other Macchis just then and they all look bloody similar?!
Mine was/is the M.52R.
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