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India Four Two 24th Feb 2013 02:04

Or it might be flying very, very low ;)

heshamh 24th Feb 2013 11:41

I can't recognize it well,

so is it a sailplane or SSBJ aircraft ?.

India Four Two 24th Feb 2013 17:57

No, it is piston-engined.

Noyade 24th Feb 2013 23:22

Taken while holidaying in New Zealand Simon? :)

A warbird?

Mustang?

India Four Two 25th Feb 2013 00:49

Well done. I wondered if someone would put two and two together. ;)

I didn't take the photo, but it's Graeme Bethell's Mustang. A very odd shadow, due to the sun-azimuth combined with photographic foreshortening. A natural for this thread.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ps7429f9bc.jpg

Noyade has control.

heshamh 25th Feb 2013 12:06

Hi,

here is a big challenge,a fighter project.


http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps26568770.jpg

evansb 26th Feb 2013 02:04

Was this a McDonnell project ? Swept-wing Banshee?

ICT_SLB 26th Feb 2013 03:57

Evansb,
Have to agree with you - looks a lot like the McDonnell XF-88 but the rear fuselage has a smoother lower profile.

heshamh 26th Feb 2013 12:44

Sorry for my late,

but it was from USA,and was not from McDonnel,but a small company.

heshamh 26th Feb 2013 20:57

The project was from middle of 1940s.

evansb 26th Feb 2013 21:37

A small company, you say. What type of aircraft did they produce?

heshamh 26th Feb 2013 22:58

Hi Evansb,

a fighter.

heshamh 26th Feb 2013 23:31

I want go to sleep,

so the aircraft was the Goodyear GA-16 single seat penetration fighter
project for the same competition for XF-88 and XF-90.

Open House.

evansb 27th Feb 2013 02:15

As Goodyear produced over 5,000 Corsairs under contract from Vought, I wonder if the GA-16 wasn't inspired in whole or in part by Vought designers. I'm not discounting the creative ability of Goodyear's own engineers, but I believe there was probably some influence from Vought in this design. Vought produced some real post-war stinkers, like the Pirate and Cutlass. The GA-16 at least looks like it would perform more than adequately.

Excellent challenge by the way.

heshamh 27th Feb 2013 11:46

Yes Evansb,

and their aircraft was not successful.

heshamh 1st Mar 2013 11:47

Anther big challenge,

built and flown.


http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/z...psecad6b02.jpg

seacue 1st Mar 2013 12:37

Perhaps the Bernard 191GR Oiseau Canari

I'll be away for a few hours. OPEN HOUSE in the unlikely event that my guess is correct.

heshamh 1st Mar 2013 15:10

No Seacue,

I said a big challenge,but from Europe.

heshamh 1st Mar 2013 20:39

It was a French aircraft.

seacue 1st Mar 2013 20:48

The Oiseau Canari (Yellow or Canary Bird) was a French aircraft... first French aircraft to fly the Atlantic - I think.


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