Silhouette challenge
Russian perhaps?
...and the 60s.
I remember being lectured on it because we thought that a Lightning couldn't catch it.
Sod my memory!!!!
It didn't come off the "of interest" list until about 1969 when the Backfire took centre stage.
I remember being lectured on it because we thought that a Lightning couldn't catch it.
Sod my memory!!!!
It didn't come off the "of interest" list until about 1969 when the Backfire took centre stage.
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As you say , HarmoniousDragmaster it is the notorious Tupolev 'Backfin' (Tu-98).
From Aviation History
As HarmoniousDragmaster declares it is open house.
From Aviation History
The Tu-98 was a supersonic light bomber developed as a replacement for the Il-28. Its twin afterburning Lyulka AL-7F turbojets were one of the most powerful engines in the world at the time. The thin wing was swept back at fifty-five degrees. The bomb bay was below the main wing spar; the intakes passed over it. The main landing gear retracted rearwards into the fuselage under the engine bays because the wing was too thin. The three crewmen sat in tandem, with the navigator sitting in the glazed nose and the radio operator/gunner's cabin behind the pilot. While the Tu-98 was the last Soviet bomber to have a glazed nose, it was the first to use remotely-operated tail guns. The two 23-mm cannon in the tail barbette were aimed with the help of a radar on the tip of the vertical tail. It made its first flight in 1955 and was shown to Western delegates at Tushino in June 1956. From 1956 to 1960, Western sources, confused by continued testing of Backfin-type aircraft, reported that the aircraft was in service as the Yak-42. In 1958, an elaborate analysis in a German magazine claimed that fifteen "Yak-42 Backfins" were being built each month. In reality, there was no production. The Soviet military decided that instead of buying a direct replacement to the Il-28, they would use fighter-bombers and strike aircraft. The Tupolev bureau revised the Tu-98 into the Tu-102, with a longer, slimmer fuselage and with the main landing gear moved to trailing edge fairings on the wings. This aircraft first flew in 1958 and entered service as the Tu-28P "Fiddler," a long-range interceptor. Some features of the Tu-98 even were passed on to the Tu-22 "Blinder."
Sorry Mel,
It didn't come off the "of interest" list until about 1969 when the Backfire took centre stage.
I meant Blinder.
It didn't come off the "of interest" list until about 1969 when the Backfire took centre stage.
I meant Blinder.
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Sometimes you just can't win against you Buggers!
The Farner-Werke C-3605.
You must be very off-****ed evansb by the fact that RR got there one minute before you.
RR has control.
The Farner-Werke C-3605.
You must be very off-****ed evansb by the fact that RR got there one minute before you.
RR has control.
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Er!! Might the top RH corner be a rather large clue??
Obviously it was!
Obviously it was!
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Thanks LM, but I'll have to declare OH as I'm off home any moment now before I get frozen in, they're threatening minus eight C or lower here tonight!
I didn't say what it was, so you could just re-post it, it probably wasn't up long enough for anyone else to see!
I didn't say what it was, so you could just re-post it, it probably wasn't up long enough for anyone else to see!
Ev'nin' Sinco.
Yes, but you now know what it is.
You are not far from me and the forecast here is very little below zero.
Sorry RR, my fault entirely. The current is below.
So here's another:
Yes, but you now know what it is.
You are not far from me and the forecast here is very little below zero.
Sorry RR, my fault entirely. The current is below.
So here's another: