The X-wing was not an X-plane….
But it had the same difficult stick handling:
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4dee28e67.jpeg

Hey sycamore. I've spoken to the judges and they're all in agreement that it's a classic case of ''we know what you meant."
Punch in "slewed-wing" and you get "oblique-wing" and you get the AD-1.

So, over to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_AD-1


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cef01373dd.jpg

Thanks N,now try this...
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f305169658.jpg

Is it a Grumman XTBF-1 "Avenger"?

`Strictly` speaking,not the XTBF-1....However it is a TBM -1/1C,/Tarpon,/Avenger 1/II....and now a real one...
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....928b9152f3.jpg
You have control D26...they are pretty heavy...!!
This is actually a TBM-3R...But close enough for Govt.Work..

Lots of levers and cranks. Interesting the "fine" RPM indicator with 2 pointers, one for the hundreds and one for the thousends!

Open house, please.

No.`2` is the prop pitch control,rotated to increase/decrease as a `vernier` adjustment to the `coarser setting of RPM pushing it `in/out`..

OK,another one for the weekend......
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b116babf24.jpg

Based on the metric altimeter and the rotatable ring around the top instrument, eastern European? Possibly Czech?

Possibly....

Well all the signs are in French and top right is a reg sticker beginning with F - possibly F-BN?? - and that takes us to a Zlin TrenerMaster I think..............

Zlin 326 Trener Master indeed! The image title rather gives it away!

Bingo Beags...what-a mistaka-to maka..!! You have control....

Much nicer aircraft than a Chippy or a `Dog`...

Having flown all 3, I would agree sycamore!

MUCH nicer than this thing, which almost killed my brother's god father:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8bfdd9a0f8.jpg

I never checked :(

remarkably few interior photos of this challenge considering several hundred were built


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....907b48eae1.jpg

Hawker or Fairey...?

Neither!!

Looks like Beagle know what it is

Asturias56, I was referring to the photo I posted having been handed control by sycamore.

I'm not sure why you also posted a photo?

It's a Boulton-Paul Defiant

regretfully it isn't - somewhat larger.....................

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....dc44090099.jpg

Because I got there first?

My post naming the Zlin was at 08:42 -yours was later - I thought your post and picture at 10:32 referred to refered to the chat about your father...............

Sycamore seems to have made an error - apologies..........................

To avoid dissension I withdraw my challenge - which is a Vickers Warwick - and we revert to the Challenge at #4214

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e4bb343d17.jpg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4d3fcd8cbb.jpg

meleagertoo, you are correct! You have control!!

My brother's god father was in the Fleet Air Arm and was flying a rather aged Defiant target tug later in the war. Trying to stay behind a Swordfish (or 'b****y old Stringbag' as he called it) on approach to somewhere or other, he stalled it and nearly went into a spin, but was just able to recover in time!

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3097bb3721.png

4-SEATER,...American...?

de Bruyne DB-2 Snark - rather an unpleasant aeroplane by all accounts!

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....de1785a364.jpg

Beagle scores again.

Thanks, meleagertoo!

Here's one for you all:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....585095f1c0.jpg

British, fighter(ish), 1960s, 2 engines, 4000lb/side fuel: but not a Javelin or a Scimitar. A bit later perhaps with that primary attitude indicator?

First flight 1951. There is a naval connection!

That's a Sea Vixen

Indeed it is! meleagertoo, you have control!

The first miltary aircraft in which I flew was a 'Vixen! I was in the observer's 'coal hole' of an 892 Sqn aircraft....during the RN's 1966 Farnborough Air Show display. OC892 being a family friend achieved that!

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f0c796318c.png

The picture has been on the forum before, I think about October 2019. It's the cockpit of an Avro 701 Athena.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d29db19de3.jpg

D'uh-oh!

D26 - all yours.

No worries! Still an interesting subject.:)
Open House please!

Well, at risk of monopolising the thread, try this one.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....49b6d46d6d.png

European?