Name that Flying Machine
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From: Outer ring of HEL
Anything outside the x-files becomes identified in a flash, so you have a point there. Things get ugly and weird.
However, I am amazed how fast all the x-files stuff get names, too. It only takes a crop of upper tail section or half an engine nacelle for a positive id in a matter of hours.
The tricky ones are the mind blowers though.
Keep up the good work!
However, I am amazed how fast all the x-files stuff get names, too. It only takes a crop of upper tail section or half an engine nacelle for a positive id in a matter of hours.
The tricky ones are the mind blowers though.
Keep up the good work!
Gnome de PPRuNe
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From: Too close to Croydon for comfort
What amazes me is how much stuff has flown even experimentally which I've never come across before. Another large American helicopter from the 1940s which was tested by the US Mil popped up unannounced the other day (ugly describes it), and just looking for it again I chanced across several other prototype rotorcraft that were new to me.
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From: Netherlands
I hope everybody can agree that we must confine us to machines that have actually flown?
Otherwise We will get lost in all Bamboo designs that never have flown.
Cropping the picture down to only the distinctive feature is totally acceptable to me.
Otherwise We will get lost in all Bamboo designs that never have flown.
Cropping the picture down to only the distinctive feature is totally acceptable to me.
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From: New South Wales
This is all I have at the moment....
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From: New South Wales
