Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge

[India Four Two]

Or it might be flying very, very low

[heshamh]

I can't recognize it well,

so is it a sailplane or SSBJ aircraft ?.

[India Four Two]

No, it is piston-engined.

[Noyade]

Taken while holidaying in New Zealand Simon?

A warbird?

Mustang?

[India Four Two]

Well done. I wondered if someone would put two and two together.

I didn't take the photo, but it's Graeme Bethell's Mustang. A very odd shadow, due to the sun-azimuth combined with photographic foreshortening. A natural for this thread.



Noyade has control.

[heshamh]

Hi,

here is a big challenge,a fighter project.

[evansb]

Was this a McDonnell project ? Swept-wing Banshee?

[ICT_SLB]

Evansb,
Have to agree with you - looks a lot like the McDonnell XF-88 but the rear fuselage has a smoother lower profile.

[heshamh]

Sorry for my late,

but it was from USA,and was not from McDonnel,but a small company.

[heshamh]

The project was from middle of 1940s.

[evansb]

A small company, you say. What type of aircraft did they produce?

[heshamh]

Hi Evansb,

a fighter.

[heshamh]

I want go to sleep,

so the aircraft was the Goodyear GA-16 single seat penetration fighter
project for the same competition for XF-88 and XF-90.

Open House.

[evansb]

As Goodyear produced over 5,000 Corsairs under contract from Vought, I wonder if the GA-16 wasn't inspired in whole or in part by Vought designers. I'm not discounting the creative ability of Goodyear's own engineers, but I believe there was probably some influence from Vought in this design. Vought produced some real post-war stinkers, like the Pirate and Cutlass. The GA-16 at least looks like it would perform more than adequately.

Excellent challenge by the way.

[heshamh]

Yes Evansb,

and their aircraft was not successful.

[heshamh]

Anther big challenge,

built and flown.

[seacue]

Perhaps the Bernard 191GR Oiseau Canari

I'll be away for a few hours. OPEN HOUSE in the unlikely event that my guess is correct.

[heshamh]

No Seacue,

I said a big challenge,but from Europe.

[heshamh]

It was a French aircraft.

[seacue]

The Oiseau Canari (Yellow or Canary Bird) was a French aircraft... first French aircraft to fly the Atlantic - I think.