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Lightning Mate 22nd September 2011 18:00

Nicely done Spit.

It is indeed the Ohka 22. :D

The thermojet version as opposed to the 3-rocket version.

Couldn't resist after Mels' quote above!!!

Spit has requested Open House.

Noyade 22nd September 2011 21:30

Butterfly tail, what was I thinking?! :(

"See-through" one...

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4431/img023oe.jpg

Lightning Mate 23rd September 2011 07:23

Wossa '105' bit?

MReyn24050 23rd September 2011 10:07

Drogue parachute perhaps, David.

Noyade 23rd September 2011 10:33

105...."Parachute door conical fairing"

MReyn24050 23rd September 2011 10:58

Dassault Balzac perhaps?

Noyade 23rd September 2011 11:10

You are a very clever man Mel.

109 was the port "Yaw control nozzle".

Yaw control Mel! :)

MReyn24050 23rd September 2011 11:31

Thank you Graeme.
It was items 108 & 109 that led me too it. At first I thought Item 109 was possibly a tail wheel of some kind but the only jet aircraft to have that was the Supermarine Attacker and this was not the Attacker. So it must have been a jet efflux to give control to a VTOL aircraft, which led me to the Dassault Balzac.
Here is the next one:-

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6.../Tailpipe4.jpg

Noyade 23rd September 2011 12:16

Mel is that showing the vertical fin base ending at the very edge of the fuselage?

MReyn24050 23rd September 2011 12:33

Graeme.
That is correct.

Noyade 23rd September 2011 12:38

Thanks, I feel a sketch coming on! :)

Kitbag 23rd September 2011 19:43

Spey in an AMX?

MReyn24050 23rd September 2011 20:35

The engine is not a Spey.

skytrain10 23rd September 2011 22:43

Do I see the horizontal stabilisers in about a 4 and 8 o'clock position? Russian possibly, an early Sukhoi Su-7?

MReyn24050 24th September 2011 08:19

Hi Ken. Yes the horizontal stabilisers are at about a 4 and 8 o'clock position but it is not Russian.

skytrain10 24th September 2011 18:05

Not getting anywhere fast on this one Mel....there is some similarity with the prototype F9F-9 Tiger - tailplane/stabilisers in the right position. On that subject then, would this be American?

MReyn24050 24th September 2011 22:35

Ken. It is American but not the prototype F9F-9 Tiger.

skytrain10 25th September 2011 10:17

I keep looking at the YF-8 and YA-7F Crusader/Corsair. The tailpipe and horizontal surfaces are about right, but not the tail itself :ugh:.
Are we looking at a fighter/attack prototype?

MReyn24050 25th September 2011 12:31

Ken. You are on the right road. It is in fact the tailpipe of a Vought A7E CorsairII at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.The aircraft below is an A7D.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6.../CorsairA7.jpg
You have control.

skytrain10 25th September 2011 13:01

Thanks Mel - somewhat surprised! Looked at the YA-7, the A-7A,B and D. Didn't look at the E - its got that little extension to the tailplane that ends at the exhaust outlet which the others don't have!

Don't have anything to offer at present, so make it Open House


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