Silhouette challenge

[skytrain10]

Morning....the Antonov LEM-2 powered glider?

[Noyade]

G'day Ken! How are ya mate? Where have ya been?

Antonov LEM-2

I was flicking through an encyclopaedia saying "nope..nope..nope.." and I said nope to the LEM-2 as well.



Hope you're a winner mate. Speaking of which...

Neil Robertson is snooker world champion | The Daily Telegraph

[Lightning Mate]

Nice to see you back Ken.

I thought you had deserted us.

[skytrain10]

Nice to be missed! Decided to give it a break for a while in part as I am not really into identifying aircraft from their undecarriage legs etc! Also had (and still have) a lot of work on so SC had to take backstage for a while.

Caught some of the snooker final last night here....bit of a scrappy game at times, but the best man won! Will this revitalise the game down under?

[MReyn24050]

Good Morning Gentlemen.
You have it Ken It is the Antonov LEM-2 OKA-33. Thanks Graeme for the photograph of the aircraft.

Will this revitalise the game down under?

Allegedly Higgins is doing his best to do the opposite here. BBC News - John Higgins suspended in snooker bribe probe
You have control Ken.

[skytrain10]

Thanks Mel....must admit I ignored the more well known Russian manufacturers....but decided I should take a 2nd look!

Here's a nice little plane:

[MReyn24050]

HarmoniousDragmaster wrote:-

Wasn't the SB2C something quite different

He was quite correct the Curtiss SB2C was the Helldiver of course.
Perhaps I was a little hasty in accepting Richard's answer however as he identified that two aircraft had been delivered to Germany and that Ernst Udet was involved. I assumed that he was referring to the Curtis export Hawk II.
Udet had been so impressed with the demonstrations of dive-bombing with of the aircraft that he had the German Air Ministry buy two Hawk IIs to introduce dive bombing tactics in Germany.

[Bradenav]

Hello

I read the " SB2C " in the old "Dora,Kurfürst und Rote 13" and this and I was amazed too ,but could not go to Aerofiles ... : I might have added Hawk ...

[Lightning Mate]

That engine has an early Mercedes look about it.

[skytrain10]

Not a Mercedes engine LM

[Ridge Runner]

It looks French to me

[skytrain10]

Hi RR....not French

[MReyn24050]

Zepplin-Lindau D1 variant with a radial engine?

[skytrain10]

Hi Mel....I see the similarity...but its not a variant of the Zeppelin-Lindau D1.

[Lightning Mate]

Didn't the D1 have unequal span wings?

There aren't many unbraced biplanes around, so I'm now thinking it's a Yank.

All it has are cabane struts.

[skytrain10]

Hi LM....don't bother looking at Aerofiles, its not from the US.

And you're right about the Zeppelin having unequal span wings.

[Lightning Mate]

We haven't actually ruled out Germany yet have we?

There are a couple of interesting looking aeroplanes in the background, but Photoshop is only helping a little....

[skytrain10]

I can't make out the background ones either....!

As you've asked....you can rule out Germany too!

[Ridge Runner]

Ah but you didn't rule out France!!!!!

[skytrain10]

Yes I did....see my post at 1238!