Silhouette challenge

[sycamore]

I think it`s much colder thAN T 3 of the answers...!

[S'land]

Both the land of the Rising Sun and the land of the Bristol are too warm and also too cold. I am afraid that it is neither.

Close sycamore, very close - only 10 to go.

[S'land]

Sycamore correctly identified the Tuplev ANT 13 and in a PM has declared "open house".

Tupolev ANT 13 / I-8 (unofficial name Zhokei, Jockey) was a fabric covered single-seat fighter with a steel frame. It was powered by 600hp Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror 12 cylinder water cooled engine. It was armed with twin 7,62 mm synchronised guns. The prototype was threatened with cancellation in 1929. However, the developing group of engineers, led by V. M. Rodinov, each volunteered 70 hours of labour free of charge to complete the project.

The ANT 13 made its first flight on 28 October 1930 with Mikhail Gromov at the controls. It was the first Russian aircraft to exceed 300 km/h in level flight.

As the Curtiss V-1570 engine was not available and there was no equivalent Russian power unit the ANT 13 did not progress beyond the prototype stage.

[evansb]

Good challenge! Here is the next mystery aircraft:

[chiglet]

Looks a Heck of a lot like a Hendy...but I think that we've had that one

[evansb]

Sorry, not the Parnall Hendy Heck. The mystery aircraft was designed a few years later.

[RETDPI]

Avions Tipsy M later a.k.a. Fairey Primer

[S'land]

Percival Gull Six?

[evansb]

RETDPI is correct. It is the Fairey Primer. Designed in 1948 to meet an RAF specification for a basic trainer. It lost out to the DH Chipmunk. You have control.

[RETDPI]

Thanks Bri,
Here's my little challenge,

[sycamore]

Polikarpov I-5...if so,Doors to Manual..

[RETDPI]

I'd leave doors to "Automatic" for the time being. Not the Polikarpov I-5.
Good guess though.

[S'land]

How about a P. W. S. 12/14?

[RETDPI]

Good try S'land,

Unfortunately, in this case at least :

P.W.S. = Posted Wrong Solution

[DeKd]

RETDPI is correct. It is the Fairey Primer. Designed in 1948 to meet an RAF specification for a basic trainer.

Not designed in 1948 shirley?
Was it not the pre-war Tipsy M OO-POM, from Avions Fairey, stored in UK during WW2, returned to Belgium and re-assembled by Avions Fairey before being returned to England in 1947 as the Fairey Primary Trainer?

[S'land]

OK, as I PWS'd last time let's see if I can do the same again this time.

Could it be the Armstrong Whitworth A. W. 14 Starling?. I remember seeing a photograph some time ago where the engine was covered in a similar cowling.

[RETDPI]

S'land
The challenge is a few years later than the Starling. However, it was powered by a British Engine and used a generally similar Townend ring to the later Starlings.

[evansb]

Primer

Okay DeKd. Yes, it was designed in Belgium in the late 1930s. Under the British specification T8/48, the prototype Primer was assessed in early 1948. Did you submit an answer to the silhouette challenge? I must have missed it. Regardless, the aircraft is a Fairey Primer. I am looking forward to your silhouette challenges.

[S'land]

As no one else seems to want to make a guess, my offering for today would be the ASJA Jaktfalk (possibly the Jaktfalk II).

If not I will have to start using the reference books.

[RETDPI]

The challenge is a few years later than , and from a different country to, the Jaktfalk. I have checked; you can find this aircraft on the Internet O.K.