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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1410 on: July 21, 2012, 04:36:42 PM »
I've just seen this one FB!
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1411 on: July 22, 2012, 04:27:03 AM »
The fuselage reminds me of the Martin P6M, but that airplane had swept wings and a T-tail.  I'm stumped on this one (no surprise).

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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1412 on: July 22, 2012, 06:27:24 AM »
I would've also gone for the R3Y, except for that the R3Y had propellors, while this one seems to have jets...
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1413 on: July 22, 2012, 06:31:42 PM »
That's annoying I've seen it on a Face Book page and I can't find it now  ::banghead::
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1414 on: July 22, 2012, 06:53:14 PM »
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1415 on: July 23, 2012, 03:43:55 PM »
Quote from: G-man on July 22, 2012, 06:53:14 PM
Put you all out of your misery:

http://www.456fis.org/CONVAIR_R3Y_TRADEWINDS.htm

The link is no good.

You can't really judge props by that picture as it looks unfinished so it could easily be prop or jet.
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1416 on: August 29, 2012, 06:49:34 PM »
Ok, so in my 25 years of aviation I have never seen anything like this. Never heard of it either.
Let's see if you plane spotting experts know it:
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1417 on: August 29, 2012, 10:38:43 PM »
Quote from: Mike on August 29, 2012, 06:49:34 PM
Ok, so in my 25 years of aviation I have never seen anything like this. Never heard of it either.
Let's see if you plane spotting experts know it:

Piece of cake. That is a Caproni Ca.20. It is the worlds first fighter aircraft.

And the crowd goes wild...... I think ;D
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1418 on: August 29, 2012, 10:45:27 PM »
I'm not going wild...........I'm throwing rotten fruit and veg at you!
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1419 on: August 29, 2012, 10:49:04 PM »
Quote from: Oddball on August 29, 2012, 10:45:27 PM
I'm not going wild...........I'm throwing rotten fruit and veg at you!

Oh yeah?  :'( Well you're just... just a  meanie faced poopie pants! :(
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1420 on: August 30, 2012, 03:59:02 AM »
Ok, you're right (of course)...

BUT:

How did they shoot that gun?? ?? ?? ??

Stand up int the cockpit? reach up? It still has a finger trigger on it.....
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1421 on: August 30, 2012, 11:36:56 AM »
 Found this at http://www.wwiaviation.com/Caproni.html

"The gun had a false sight at eye level so that the Ca 20's pilot could aim through the propeller arc at the enemy aircraft while the gun fired from above."

The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E 5a had the top mounted Lewis gun on a slide so it could be brought down in front of the pilot to be fired and re-loaded.  So this gun could be fired by Bowden cable since it looks like its in a fixed position.
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1422 on: September 14, 2012, 05:44:00 PM »
Ok, here's one fresh from the sea! Sorry if the picture isn't too good but I'm not that skilled with camera settings. This should seriously give you experts a challenge >:D
I'll only stretch myself to saying it's considerably older than me (I'm 34 now).

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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1423 on: September 15, 2012, 06:10:50 PM »
*sticks hand up*

ooohh, ohhh, pick me, pick me, I know, I know!

It's a bit of shiny metal  ;D
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Re: Name That ????
« Reply #1424 on: September 20, 2012, 08:09:16 PM »
No takers? Really? Ok, I'll narrow the info down. It's from WW2 and it was the first plane in production with at least one feature that was new at the time.
The engines have an aluminium block and heads with 4 valves per cylinder and fuel injection directly into the combustion chamber (normal gasoline fuel injection systems are in the manifold with only some the newest cars using a direct-injection system).
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