Name that Flying Machine

[Noyade]

American transport aircraft fitted out with long range tanks for a special flight. Not a flying-boat, but it did end up in the ocean.




Merry Christmas!

[Self loading bear]

Not too many American Transport Triplanes.

[meleagertoo]

​​Not too many American Transport Triplanes.​​​​​

[Noyade]

Anyone wanna name it?

[BEagle]

It's the Catron & Fisk CF-10.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catron_%26_Fisk_CF-10 .

[Noyade]

Over to you BEagle.

[BEagle]

OK:-

[kcockayne]

Fairey Delta 2 ?

[Zaxis]

Bristol T188

[oncemorealoft]

Bristol 188?

[fitliker]

This one is needling me

[chevvron]

The Stainless Steel Rat.(SF novel)

[Asturias56]

That's not an FD2 cockpit IIRC it was two glass panes with a central bar

[chevvron]

First appeared at Farnborough in 1962, cancelled before the next Farnborough in 1964

[BEagle]

Zaxis, you have control - it is indeed the 'Flaming Pencil', the Bristol T188!

Someone I knew who worked with it at the ground monitoring site said that by the time it had reached its operating altitude, there wasn't enough fuel left for it to reach its supersonic target speed before it had to return to base!

A pity that it didn't have rather more fuel efficient engines, but it was amazing for its day!

[Zaxis]

Thank you BEagle. That was a close run win.
The T188 has alway been a favourite, especially the air brakes!


To go to the other end of the speed spectrum I'll offer up this to identify ....

[longer ron]

Originally Posted by BEagle

Zaxis, you have control - it is indeed the 'Flaming Pencil', the Bristol T188!
A pity that it didn't have rather more fuel efficient engines, but it was amazing for its day!

I can never understand why they did not junk those absolutely useless Gyron Juniors and fit (say) Avons,the gyrons were never ever sorted properly - little wonder that poor old Godfrey Auty was voted ''the pilot most likely to eject'' at the ETPS Dinner.
Never mind the 188 - the Gyron Juniors were lethal in the Bucc S1 as well

[Asturias56]

"A pity that it didn't have rather more fuel efficient engines, but it was amazing for its day!"

Well that's one way of putting it - a design that was totally flawed - the only one I can think of that was worse was the ?Blackburn? post war strike aircraft that as built couldn't fit the design requirement torpdeo....................

[Asturias56]

The immediate reaction to the challenge was Farman - they seem to have standardised on a single surface up front

but it isn't - is it European?

[BEagle]

European - Scottish, in fact!