Silhouette challenge

[Noyade]

Methinks this is called the "Mifyter".

That's the one mate! Your control.

The MiFyter

[Lightning Mate]

Thanks Mate.

Trying to mail you another "teaser" before you go zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Ball rolling:

[skytrain10]

Morning all

Reggiane Re.2007?

[Lightning Mate]

...and a very good morning to you skytrain.

You're on the ball this morning!

You have control

[skytrain10]

It had that Italian feel, and a very Reggiane look.

Will have something for you all shortly

[skytrain10]

Off we go:

[sablatnic]

PAT-1 maybe?

[skytrain10]

Got it in one sablatnic. It is the PAT-1. First flown in July 1981, sadly the one and only example crashed a couple of months later.



You have control sablatnic

[sablatnic]

Here come:

[skytrain10]

Looks very much like a C-141A Starlifter....but is that too obvious?

Or maybe the "civilian" Lockheed 300?

[sablatnic]

Not the Starlifter or the Lockheed 300.
Then again. It was one of the phases on the way from C130 to C141. Take it. It is yours.

[skytrain10]

Thanks sablatnic....incidentally what was the model designation...or did it not get one?

Keeping to the same theme.... I had found this one some time back:

[HarmoniousDragmaster]

That looks like a Boeing nose to me, even though the design resembles an MDD design on the way to the C-17

[SincoTC]

Along similar line to the preceding Challenge; is it an early concept for the AMST Program that led to the C-17 Globemaster II, perhaps the first Boeing BX proposal, are they extra engines mounted in the pylons, or ducting to blow the fan air directly at the flaps while the hotter core flow goes under them?

[skytrain10]

HD....the nose does indeed owe a lot to Boeing. Boeing were one of 2 manufacturers involved. This design has no connection with the C-17. What is not clear from the 3-view is that this was to be a passenger transport. Not sure if the engines hide the windows, or whether the windows were left off the design drawings!

[skytrain10]

Sinco...not part of the AMST programme. I am not familiar with the Boeing BX proposal so wont comment on that, however there is no mention of that in the literature I have on this aircraft.
The engines were never specified however it was to use the augmenter wing concept to generate lift, hence there is indeed a secondary cool air outlet from the engine to assist short field performance (well spotted!).

[SincoTC]

How about the Boeing-Aeritalia BA.751 Stol airliner transport project of 1971 or thereabouts?

I can't find any more info and I have to go now, so if correct, Open House please.

[skytrain10]

You've got it Sinco, it is the BA.751, a QSTOL project worked on jointly by Boeing and Aeritalia for a passenger aircraft in the 100-150 seat category capable of achieving max take-off weight from a 4,000 ft runway.

Open House has been declared.

[Lightning Mate]

Today seems to be jets-a go-go:



Push em up baby....

[Noyade]

God there are a lot of SST projects out there! How about the Boeing 2707-200?...