Silhouette challenge

[Tu.114]

Drawbarz,

correct on both accounts. I had thought that a pre-WW2 japanese fighter with a non-radial engine would have lasted a little longer... well, I was wrong.

Over to You.

Tu.114

[drawbarz]

Pure chance that one. I was looking on a website for details of the Ki 27 the night before last and there was a mention and partial side view of the front end of the Ki 28.

I'm still not at home at the moment so nothing to post I'm afraid...

Open house

D.

[evansb]

3-view challenge:

[Dick Whittingham]

Does Howard Hughes come in here somewhere?

Dick

[evansb]

I don't think there is a Howard Hughes connection to the design. The aircraft (project) was not designed in the United States of America.

[S'land]

This has a Russian feel to it. Would it be related to the Sukhoi SU-8 project?

[MReyn24050]

An IMAM project perhaps?

[Tu.114]

By any chance something by Tov. Tairov... the OKO-7?

Tu.114

[MReyn24050]

If not an IMAM project a development of the Myasishchev DVB-102?

[evansb]

Not Russian, nor Italian. Although the specification for this design was for a fighter, the aircraft was designed to carry bombs internally. The front view shows 4 ports for cannon.

[chiglet]

It looks like a Miles to me, but I don't think that it is

[evansb]

Not a Miles, but yes, the lines are similar. The engines were to be Rolls Royce Merlins.

[dazdaz]

German? Some sort of medium range bomber? Maybe others might distinguish the engines, pistons?

[evansb]

Not German. As previously mentioned, a source indicates the specification was for a fighter, but the design became a two-place, pressurized fighter/bomber. Perhaps that is why it never left the drawing board.

[MReyn24050]

evansb's challenge

That will be the General Aircraft GAL.46 I believe, which I understand lost out to Westland who won the contract with the Welkin.
Mel

[evansb]

MReyn24050 is correct. Mel has control.

[MReyn24050]

Next challenge

Thanks Bri. It would have been a very interesting aircraft had it been built. Another project that I was not aware of, that is the great thing about this thread and "What Cockpit" there is always something to learn.
Here is the next challenge.

Mel

[S'land]

Would that be the Westland Weasel, perchance?

Mel, I agree with you about there always being something to learn with this thread. There have been any number of aircraft that I had not heard of before.

[MReyn24050]

Mel's Challenge

S'land has it. It is indeed the Westland Weasel. Not the name I would have given to an aircraft.

You have Control.

[S'land]

Thanks Mel.
I agree, not the best of names.

Here is the next one.