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[Lightning Mate]

Hello Mel - long time no see.

Issat German?

[MReyn24050]

Hi David. Hope all is well. This one is not German.

[Noyade]

Evening Mel.

Can't figure out the surroundings, seems like it's not linked to the "outside". Is that some sort of asbestos cloth at bottom right? Looks like an old photo?

[MReyn24050]

Hi Graeme. The photograph is not all that old possibly early 1990s. Not sure about the material it may well be an asbestos blanket type material. It is all part of the aircraft's structure.

[Noyade]

It is all part of the aircraft's structure.

OK, but no jet pipe as such? Engine just blasts away as depicted in your photo?

[Noyade]

YC-14?

[Noyade]

The photograph is not all that old possibly early 1990s

Sorry, forgot that. Not the YC-14. Back to cutaways.....

[sycamore]

Is it the back-end of a turboprop,with overwing exhaust..?

[sycamore]

Is it a lift engine from the SC-1?

[Kitbag]

I like Sycamores idea but given that it's early 90's maybe a piece of Soviet lifting gear?

Yak 38 lift engine?

[SincoTC]

I think it's a RKBM RD-41, one of a pair in the front of the Yak-141 Freestyle supersonic VSTOL prototype ??

I remember seeing this at Farnborough in '92

[Tashengurt]

F
86 Sabre?

[MReyn24050]

SincoTC has it. It is indeed one of the pair of RKBM RD-41, installed in the front of the Yak-141 Freestyle.




You have control Trevor.

[SincoTC]

Thanks Mel,

here's another exhaust!

[Lightning Mate]

Do I see a clamshell/petal type thrust reverser?

[sycamore]

F -105 Thud..

[SincoTC]

Good morning David,

No Mate, this aircraft used a brake 'chute; you can see petal type airbrakes, but the "clamshells" (I think of them as eyelids) were for adjusting the tailpipe's orifice when using reheat!

Edit: Not a Thud sycamore!

[Lightning Mate]

Ah I see!

A la Olympus (except this one aint').

[sabredog]

Possibly the BAC 221?

[SincoTC]

not just possibly SD, it is the BAC-221



sabredog has control