Silhouette challenge

[Ridge Runner]

Bugger... I retract my mistimed post!!!!! RR

[Ridge Runner]

So how about the PB-100?

[skytrain10]

To me its looks like Petlyakov PE-2N (thats the Russian backward N!!) variant? But I'm wondering if its not a Petlyakov at all?

[Noyade]

But I'm wondering if its not a Petlyakov at all?

I was thinking this as well. But what? It doesn't seem likely that evansb would toss the well known Pe-2 onto the screen but on the other hand sometimes the obvious makes you look elsewhere?
If it is a wartime silhouette then maybe it's inaccurate but if not the glass panelling doesn't seem to match any Pe-2 variant. Closest I could find was the early Pe-211 but even then, there are obvious differences...



Another thought is maybe a Myasischyev version?

An even scarier thought, maybe it's not Russian?

Even scarier than that, I'm talking complete rubbish! Back to my bong.

[Lightning Mate]

Well, I have convinced myself that the engines are Klimovs.

[evansb]

Well, skytrain10 is closest. It is a Petlyakov Pe-2. I couldn't accept PE-3 as an answer as the PE-3 has a solid nose and protruding cannon. Over to you.


http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww2/pe2/pe2-4.jpg

[skytrain10]

Thanks evansb. Sometimes the obvious can be the most frustrating! I couldn't find a PE-2B variant, but this was the PE-2N(Russian backward variety).


Here we go:

[SincoTC]

I believe it's the Ishida TW-68 Tilt Wing Project of the early nineties.

ishida aerospace | transport faa | stage iii | 1991 | 2284 | Flight Archive

Dual mode aircraft - Google Patent Search

If Correct Open House Please!

[Noyade]

I believe it's the Ishida TW-68 Tilt Wing Project of the early nineties.

Well, that's what I thought it was as well Sinco and nearly tripped on the carpet running to the bookshelf, but I don't think it is...unless the design changed with time?...

(Of course after the Pe-2 affair I'm more than likely wrong! )

Compare this...

[Noyade]

Just managed to have a closer look at the sites you posted Sinco (Flight Archive always gives me grief), and I'm convinced that my line drawing is out of date (1990).

Nice job mate!

[skytrain10]

Morning/Evening...SincoTC, it is the Ishida TW-68 tilt rotor. Well done. And yes, my 3-view post dated yours Graeme!

SincoTC has declared Open House.

[Noyade]

Open House.

Sorry about the staple line (no idea how to 'shop' it out) but I thought it was an interesting photo...

[Ridge Runner]

See PMs mate

Your post -a Curtiss Hawk?

[Noyade]

Hi Martin. I replied to your PM. Hope it helps.

Sorry mate, not a Curtiss product.

[HarmoniousDragmaster]

for some reason the plane in the foreground looks Italian, dunno why. So is the target a Regianne Re 2000?

[Noyade]

So is the target a Regianne Re 2000?

Sorry mate, no, it's a Vultee V-11.

And I'm also sorry because I have to stop there and call it quits for the day. Night.

Cheers,
Graeme.

[skytrain10]

Confused....are we identifying the aircraft tail in the foreground, or the one chasing it?

So the tail in the foreground is a V-11? The one in the background certainly looks like a Regianne, but maybe not...?

[HarmoniousDragmaster]

The Vultee was the plane we were aiming for, does Graemes reveal mean its open house?

[skytrain10]

Must admit I thought we were trying to identify the aircraft in the background? If its accompanying (ie not attacking) the Vultee, I guess its a US fighter or allied fighter?

[HarmoniousDragmaster]

We have a disconnect here skytrain. The plane in the background was the one we were identifying (our target, as it were), but Graeme is obviously alazy slacker and prefers to go to sleep rather than to play with us (lol) so he has called time on the challenge and revealed the answer (Vultee V-11)

Trouble is, I don't know what happens now?