Open House

If you are in the top three of what the Mods recon to be compulsive posters, You better make sure to take a wide margin.

Another aircraft under construction...


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hmmm - I always worried about the cost /weight/benefit of adding a gunner - especially when he was equipped with what looks like a pop-gun 0.303

1940's?

FW 200 Condor?

Stipa-Caproni Flying Barrel?

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- Ed

ye Gods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

That's the Gee Bee XXXXXL...

Mitsubishi Betty?

Apologies for the delay - you have it Zaxis, early model Condor. :ok: Your control.

Good challenge!!

Yes, a good challenge that got the brain cells working. The giveaway was the circular window below the turret.
Have a go at this one....

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....aa60b701c8.jpg

From days before he learned style...

Jim Bede' XBD2

Correct. Bede XBD-2.
May be not as stylish as later stuff but technically more interesting. Boundary layer control research aircraft with 160,000 holes drilled in wing and controls. Preserved at Manitowoc Airport, Wisconsin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede_XBD-2

You have control

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https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....99ab5a20d6.png

aagghhh - I know that one .... now to remember its name................

You know, when I watched that dreadful movie about Alan Turing I marvelled at the skills they found in the population at large.
This thread has a similar effect.
I know the main protagonists here have aviation brains larger then space itself but...to recognise a couple of air intakes as esoteric as that...

Chapeau, guys, both of you!

However Noyade has me slayed in a mere four hours...

I'm a bit fuzzy over the 24hr rule so whoever takes over/confesses/admits/declaims according to form please do so at the appropriate time.

Note to self....grrfff. Must try harder!

I'm sure you meant to say that Noyade had responded very quickly but you aren't available until evening today to comment

Those cooling vents look awfully small to me................

Thanks Mel. Apologies for the delay...


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