looks horrible!!

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5ba729a8d9.jpg
A definite resemblance

Convair...?

I wonder if it's been cropped and in fact it's some sort of research ?glider? under the wing of something a lot bigger?

Not a glider and not under a wing; it's twin-engined.

Piston or jet?

Prop-driven.

ah-ha - so possibly a turbo-prop...........................

almost the front end of an A-26 Invader - but not quite...............

Judging by the tow bar, the nose wheel must be a long way from the nose. Is this an aircraft that has had an experimental cockpit grafted onto the front?

While thinking about my previous post and the possible scale of the aircraft that nose was attached to, some of my "little grey cells" whispered Convair.

Bingo!
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....46034c6c1.jpeg

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Vi...imulator-tifs/

Sitting behind all that perspex, I would have been a bit worried about birdstrikes.

...or my post #510...

I was so put off by the picture of the Naked Mole Rat that I missed your post, Quemerford! Perhaps I took it in subliminally. :)

For some reason my smiley emoji appeared at the start of my reply rather than the end: apologies if it came across as a bit abrupt. Anyhow you have it (emoji re-inserted) :) :ok:

Lots of hints from Quemerford, but I 42 was the first with the full answer. Over to you

Thanks oxenos.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....917a511c4c.jpg

Is that a Griffon engine on maybe a Shackleton?

The awesome Nomad.