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22nd October 2011 | 14:48

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Lightning Mate

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Hello Mel - long time no see.

Issat German?

22nd October 2011 | 15:43

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MReyn24050

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

22nd October 2011 | 20:22

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Noyade

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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?

22nd October 2011 | 20:42

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MReyn24050

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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.

22nd October 2011 | 20:49

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Noyade

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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?

22nd October 2011 | 21:14

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Noyade

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YC-14?

22nd October 2011 | 21:24

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Noyade

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The photograph is not all that old possibly early 1990s

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

22nd October 2011 | 21:31

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sycamore

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

22nd October 2011 | 21:34

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sycamore

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Is it a lift engine from the SC-1?

22nd October 2011 | 22:19

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Kitbag

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

Yak 38 lift engine?

22nd October 2011 | 23:01

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SincoTC

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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

22nd October 2011 | 23:18

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Tashengurt

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F
86 Sabre?

22nd October 2011 | 23:45

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MReyn24050

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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.

23rd October 2011 | 07:50

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SincoTC

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Thanks Mel,

here's another exhaust!

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23rd October 2011 | 08:53

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Lightning Mate

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Do I see a clamshell/petal type thrust reverser?

23rd October 2011 | 09:13

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sycamore

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F -105 Thud..

23rd October 2011 | 09:13

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SincoTC

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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!