Thanks Mel and Alpha - but I wasn't even close. Couldn't get past MiG or Forger thoughts, but the clues didn't fit.

Suggest open house.

Speaking of which - no list, so we just start afresh?

That was an excellent challenge, many thanks AZR!

Thanks TheiC :) My pleasure :)

If I may follow on...
(MReyn24050, not a fast mover this time)
http://www.bakes.fr/_AlphaZuluRomeo/challenge2.jpg

(If it's somehow inappropriate to play again, please ignore this post) :oh:

Sorry AZR other commitments I am afraid. Your latest certainly looks interesting.
Cannot see any control cable runs. Thinking it might be one of a pair of tailbooms. OV10 Bronco perhaps?

Second thoughts not the Bronco.

Hi,

Tailboom, yes.
Bronco, нет.

Well, I can see two flexible cables which might just be teleflex or similar but are more probably electrical. There's a cross-member with what might be a trimming device, but fairly well forward of the after end.

The flat top lends itself to the mounting of external transmission, eg for a tail rotor, though I can see no strengthening or fixings associated with this...

Echo, echo, echo... Rotary wing?

Certainly :ok:

Electrical for the lower cable: sure.
For those at the top/far end, I think so too but without certainty there.

Agreed with your observations. Can't comment more about what it might be.

Good catch.

AlouetteIII..? OH if correct

I'll have a stab at a Mi-24 Hind. That seems to have the right shaped section to the lower 2/3 of the tailboom (assuming the upper 1/3 is the trans tunnel).

I reckon sycamore may well have it, if that cross-member is indeed a torque tube for the stab... Never flown an Alouette III though I know someone who has one.

Not a Hind, nacluv, sorry.

The outside the tailboom, same day, during maintenance: (you can see the transmission axis - almost black on the pic due to light - and, in front of it, the - tiny - cable controlling the pitch of the tail rotor)
http://www.bakes.fr/_AlphaZuluRomeo/IMG_8519.jpg

View from behind, just before landing a few days before:
http://www.bakes.fr/_AlphaZuluRomeo/IMG_8316.jpg

What a nice machine she was. :ok:
I miss hearing her unmistakable sound around here.

Open House it is, then.
Well done, sycamore. :D

I blame the little bit of Russian in post #3485. Threw me off the scent!

Yes, I looked at eastern bloc machines too... And at lattice frameworks a la Bell 47 which might have developed into more advanced monocoques... Didn't get to the gentille Alouette though...

Yeah, saw that as well, but I wasn't even on a track let alone the right path - I was looking at the M-55 and SU-80. Well done Sycamore.

An air scoop this time...

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/7335/img741j.jpg

No idea, but he seems happy enough!

Also has a rather squaloid look about him...

Here's a bit more then...

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/8559/img746e.jpg

Interesting. Unusual for the innie to be facing the same direction as the outies. Unless they are cooling ducts.

So it looks like an inline twin (or possible triple) high-wing monoplane of 20s or 30s vintage. I would like to say Fokker Mk VIII, but I can't find any reference to one with inline engines.

Hi nacluv. A twin from the 30's, but a biplane and British...

HP Heyford ?