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I agree; it does have a "Curtiss look" about it, but as far as I can find out, it was the first iteration of a British design to a Ministry Specification. However, it was not the one finally presented, which had a different configuration!
....... submitted their design in January 1932, but it was received without enthusiasm. Work on the .. .. continued until May. On 15 May ...... ....... learnt that one of Swissair's Orions had made its first scheduled flight, flying between Zurich, Munich and Vienna at a cruising speed of 180mph. He decided to halt all work on the .. .. and move onto a completely new design, which would emerge as the ....... .. ..
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Well, I will have to go out in a few hours and I'm in and out of the garden at the moment, so I'll put up another to keep things going and check every half hour or so!
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A brief stop just to say hello all...
That thing seems a German Arado-Heinkell-ish design... mainly because of the ventral skid, perhaps, or, if not, it might be Russian...
Only... if it's supposed to be a jet... where's the air intake?? or... were you saying "rocket fighter" as in R.A.T.O. and then it's either a gliding reentry or a suicidal ram (dotted lines in side view behind cockpit, Natter-like)?
And... are all those huge pipes in the front cannons? That's quite some firepower! (Desperate solution, which points me again towards the last German prototypes...)
That thing seems a German Arado-Heinkell-ish design... mainly because of the ventral skid, perhaps, or, if not, it might be Russian...
Only... if it's supposed to be a jet... where's the air intake?? or... were you saying "rocket fighter" as in R.A.T.O. and then it's either a gliding reentry or a suicidal ram (dotted lines in side view behind cockpit, Natter-like)?
And... are all those huge pipes in the front cannons? That's quite some firepower! (Desperate solution, which points me again towards the last German prototypes...)
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Hi HappyPass 
Not suicidal (except for the choice of nitric-acid for the engines), it's a post-war project and evansb has got the country correct (as you did mention as a possibility), it was Russian, but not from Polikarpov or MiG !
Not suicidal (except for the choice of nitric-acid for the engines), it's a post-war project and evansb has got the country correct (as you did mention as a possibility), it was Russian, but not from Polikarpov or MiG !
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Good afternoon all - hope you're having a nice Easter break, and for those in the UK at least, that you are making the most of the weather.
Looks like a Lavochkin La-162 - one of several different forms I beleive?
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Looks like a Lavochkin La-162 - one of several different forms I beleive?
Sorry not been around for last couple of weeks, and that coupled with internet probs has prevented me from participating. Finally got the chance to log on!