Amazing What You Can Find In A Farmyard
 

Came across this in a farm in East Yorkshire recently:
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Can anyone ID it? My recognition skills are a bit rusty, but I feel I should know it by the tailplane.

Soko G-2A Galeb perhaps.

L-29 Delphin. Romanian Air Force markings

Delfin has a 'T' tail?


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Its an L29 with a strange modification !!

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It certainly is a Romanian Delfin but it looks like someone has had a bit of fun with the positioning of the tailplane. Here is a complete aircraft, which lives at Bruntingthorpe:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5559/...87177a89fd.jpg66654 / 53 Aero L-29 Delfin by Irish251, on Flickr

Huh?!


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It's an L29 Delphin, although the tail section has been crudely removed from the top of the fin and attached at the base, don't know why.

The Galeb had much less sweep back on the fin, and lacks the circular access panel just below the roundal.

Without going into the subtleties as the differences in the fillet and spine on the top of the fuselage, the two small intakes on the side of the fuselage and the aerial on the top, the design of the canopies suggests it's a Delphin. The rear canopy of the Delphin slid back, and this feature can be clearly seen, although the Perspex is long gone. Also, the Galeb had panels inbetween the two cockpits, F4 style. The Delphin's design was a more simple Hawk style.

I don't thing the RoAF ever operated Galebs, although when I was there in '99 they had an awful lot of Delphins in a paint scheme similar to the one in these photos. The Air Force was so strapped for cash, the condition was similar too!

Seeing the different paint work - this looks like two aircraft stitched together to me!

similar to this modified L29?

Mysterious L-29 Delfin modification? - Real Aviation - Britmodeller.com

This link should solve any arguments.

Euro Demobbed - Out of Service Military Aircraft in Europe

Liffy had me confused there. You have to wonder why anyone would go to the effort of moving the tail?


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Has it been used on one the electronic warfare ranges to make it look like another similar type? They did something similar to a Hunter i think to make it look like some kind of Mig.

Probably the same aircraft, due to this caption on the photo:
as the farm was just outside Pocklington.

DucatiST4 - I think the Hunter was the example at North Luffenham that had the nose cone removed to look like an defecting Soviet Bloc a/c. Had different weapons hung on it that the EOD trainees had to make "safe". Happily the a/c is now in the hand of the preservation group at Wattisham and has been restored as it is a former 111 Sqn aircraft that I believe took part in the famous 22 Hunter loop.