How old are you, in fact HP? :E

The photo was posted here awhile ago, and originated from a San Diego Archive, which misidentified the aircraft. I think...

That means a c**ptacular 100k-odd photos to look at... :\
I need something to drink... :p

Bristol 142, I saw that as a Ripon C-2?

Who knows, maybe I'm mistaking this one with the Gloster F.9/37 (which is an H-tail) because of the general appearance of the nose and engine pods...
Anyway, time for a good dinner!

A Blenheim ……… :uhoh:

Wasn't the 143 the prototype for the Blenheim?

:hmm:

I'll plead no contest.

I had thought that Bristol 142M was Bristol Blenheim. But Bristol 142 Britain First has been dubbed as "the sire of the Bristol Blenheim". Go figure all that out. I think we need RR to sort the mess out :{.

No need to :{ about a short nosed pig.:E

I looked at this to make the Bristol call, should have said type 143, but on seeing photos now I am probably wrong as the landing gear has panels attached.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/a...1935-36327.jpg

Hello all!

None of the above!!!!!:E ...including EvansB's offerings!

RR

So where are we? Oh yes. On our way to bed. Good night!

And about the time to do so (this was the response to #1814 :mad:).

You still didn't answer my #1795 post (maybe because it went before your last one at that time)... :E

Edit: thanks...

Sorry, mate ...

No!!!!! :)

Evening!

Hi Brian, I'd swear on a stack of bibles you posted this challenge image (not that long ago) and yes it was the AT-10? But for the life of me I can't find it in the old thread. At the time I asked you(?) if it could be the Nakajima J5NI and you replied with something along the lines of "no, but I can understand why you thought that".

I must be going nuts?!

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/7...une220811a.jpg
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/327/img055a.jpg



Is it Japanese Martin?!

Graeme, that was identified at the time by the poster, Brian, as Cessna UC-78 (the Bobcat). #26402 on 30 May 2011. Brian's Photobucket got full and he has deleted a lot of his old challenges…..

This time, I think not.

Hey folks, HP to the rescue here!!!
I save almost all the pages in which I have posted something (that's paranoid, I know...)
So I went back and browsed through my archive and... that's where I saw it!!!

TA-DAH!
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/742...becaf704o1.jpg

You can check the filename (minus the chars added by ImageShack, that is) against the one on page 1321, SC Mk.I.
Then how come the same picture is posted by evansb and id-ed as a Bobcat and then reappears and it's not that anymore? What's yer source, RR?

...at least I found where I saw that the first time... :O


Edit: that's not a Bobcat fer shure, look at the cockpit ceiling/canopy, it can be opened!!!

Here it is, a Cessna AT-8, near similar photo.
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1788/abohis19400.jpg

I am gone. Too much for me for one night :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

Nite y'all, I'm off to bed too... :zzz:

I confess I am a little confused, but there again have had a long day. My first thought was a Bobcat, but looking closer the nose appears too short for a Bobcat and the canopy looks wrong. Would it the Cessna P-10?

As the challenge photo aircraft is devoid of markings, perhaps it is the prototype AT-8 that first flew in March of 1939. Production models didn't come on stream until one year later. The landing gear, nacelle lines, cowling, engine shroud, wing dihedral, antenna insulators, tail, tail wheel position, lower fueslage line, and elevator position and stabiliser proportion all agree with other Cessna AT-8s. The nose shape and canopy fenestration does appear somewhat different.. As a juror, I would vote for it being a Cessna.

Just returned from a long day too and have come to the same conclusion as skytrain regarding the possibility of the Cessna P-10, mainly due to the description of the nose and canopy. I could only find a single picture from an entirely different angle, but notice the ADF antenna behind the cockpit and the protruberance on the tip of the fin visible in both Martin's and this image!

http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/...oSafe/p10l.jpg

You identified it! Well done!:D The hitherto unheard-of Cessna P-10.
We can all rest well now, gentlemen. :)

Thanks Brian! Well, I think that it does look like the challenge aircraft, but credit must go to skytrain if it is!

Like you, I was convinced that it was a Cessna, but was troubled by the different canopy, when I found the decription "Side-by-side seating; full-vision, sliding canopy" in Aerofiles (without a picture) I went looking for one, but when I returned to post having found the image above, Ken had got there first.

Oh well, I'm off to bed now, goodnight :ok:

Good morning Skytrain. I hear you are on…

Ach! Waiting for RR's call…..

Morning Reg, yes I'm here, but have to go unfortunately. I have not managed to find a photo on the net of the P-10, but RR's challenge seems to fit the description, as well as the photo that Trevor has found.

Martin, if it is the P-10 then it will be Open House.

Morning all,
Great challenge!:D

TC, was your quote from Cessna Flyer Assn site?

Yes - the Cessna P-10. One built. No photos on web as far as I know!

I think Ken has it but OH declared

Try this one.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/a...nty/test-1.jpg

RegDep, some of those photos are found here.

Vintage and Historical Aircraft: Wings Over Kansas

RR, great challenge although no photos available in web! Apparently solvable nevertheless, as we saw. Anybody know how to get to see the contents of the Kansas Aviation Museum Robert J. Pickett Collection images? Other than going to Wichita?

Edit: Thanks skwinty. That site I know, have even posted a challenge from there :).

Morning.

skwinty, is yours a really sleek-looking French aircraft....?

If it's the one I'm thinking of we've had it here before and on What Cockpit?

Morning all,

Evening Graeme; I think you're right, it looks like the Hirsh H-100 and I think I may have got it the first time round, I certainly posted a pic of it in the Musee de L'air.

Not to worry skwinty, we've all done it :)

I am not to sure of country of origin, but may have a French connection.

My bad, I missed it in the list.:O


Hirsch-MAéRC H-100 (F-WGVC c/n 01)

So I guess that resets the open house.

Question from RegDep
 

Yes mate, the paragraph above the one you posted :)

The picture I found was on the web, here (found with a different search string that found the above site)!

Jaka to maszyna? Edycja wojskowa, okres WW2 - Strona 204

Thanks Trevor. I went to What Cockpit and worked up from "Z" looking for 2011 entries...

Got another image/challenge instead skwinty?

OK, try this one.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/a...fdhtthrhtr.jpg

Like I said mate, don't worry too much!

Dunno how you search the list, but I've been caught out many times with slight differences in spelling or foriegn accents like yours has!

I use the standard Windows F3 search, first on the whole name, then I whittle down the string to smaller sections like Hirsch, H-100, H.100 H 100.

If you're lucky you won't find your prospective challenge and you post it, only to find it has been up, but too recently to be on Mel's great list :ugh: