Aircraft picture quiz

Very good! I haven't got the heart to spin out 4 and 6 after you got so close, 4 is the Yak 140 and 6 is the Su-17 (1949 model, nothing to do with the Fitter) .

That No.2 Planeman post if not a Poland that just is belong to Yug.

Originally posted by emile
That No.2 Planeman post if not a Poland that just is belong to Yug.

Afraid not. It's indiginous to Yugoslavia.

Ok. The two old jets I put up on page 75 were products of Ikarus, a defunct Yugoslav company. I have forgotten the exact type numbers, oppppssss...

Anyway, here are some with a "less common WW2 era heavy bombers" theme:
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Hmmmmm, having to think hard here;


2 Dornier Do 19
3 Junkers Ju 89
5 Messerschmitt Me 264
6 Convair B-32
8 Piaggio 108

[edit on 20-5-2006 by waynos]

No idea about No.1 but No.4 obviously is Nakajima Renzan No.7 is Petlyakov Pe-8

[edit on 20-5-2006 by emile]

Good work guys, between you you've got everything except no.1. Hint: Think of a country that was occupied by Germany early in the war.

Sorry, I have already known that is belong to France but couldn't make out

Ok, looks like I have you guys beat with the French bomber; it's a Bloch B162 protoype. Here's a side view:

Bugger, too late to join.

Oh well, I would have said Potez. And then the clue made me think possibly cheese-consuming with perhaps a tendency to wave white flags.

Funny how the Polish and French were able to build wonderful bombers just before the outbreak of war but their fighters were just dire...

Were they reading the bible according to Trenchard?

You've re-inspired me planeman so heres a few for everyone to have a go at;

2. Okay, the back end looks very Hurricane-like, but for some reason I'm thinking Morraine-Saulnier.

4. Hmm, Fairey Battle springs to mind. Also the tropedo bomber, Blackburn Roc.

The only famous seaplane I know is Machi-Castaldi and that had a huge V engine which was pretty obvious. This, I don't know, some kind of Schneider competitor?

[edit on 22-5-2006 by HowlrunnerIV]

Sorry howlrunner, none of the above. However you got very close with one of your guesses but I can't say which for fear of giving it away.

PS, I just want to blow my own trumpet a bit here, if you'll forgive me. In the original pic, no4 was festooned with national markings and serial numbers and I'm well impressed at my removal of them without leaving obvious patches, sorry, carry on.



[edit on 23-5-2006 by waynos]

I think the last one is a Latecoere 298 torpedo bomber used by the French navy.

The next- to-last one may be a Fairey Fulmar.

Cheers,



[edit on 23-5-2006 by Inki]

No. 2 looks like a Morane Saulnier M.S. 450

Cheers

No. 1 looks like an Aero A-304

Cheers

Originally posted by waynos
Sorry howlrunner, none of the above. However you got very close with one of your guesses but I can't say which for fear of giving it away.

Time to load up the shotgun and shoot at everything.

Hmm, did Hawker ever make a racing plane in the '30s? Or are we looking at the first Hurricane protoype, built to answer the Air Ministry specification? Before guns and sights and whatnot were fitted? And after the RAF got over it's love affair with the Demon/Hart...But, if it were it would have a two-blade, fixed-pitch, wooden prop...I still think it was a pylon racing job...Unless it was Hughes' record-breaker, but that had flush-fitted metal panels, not that internal bracing I can see...Urghh, damn you, Waynos!

Right, not the Battle or the Roc, could be the Firefly, the Fulmar, Barracuda or the Skua...But I'm going with Fulmar...

Seaplane: Well it isn't the Supermarine S6B Rolls Royce-engined monster, that's for sure.

edit: No. 3 isn't the Sopwith Salamander, is it?

[edit on 23-5-2006 by HowlrunnerIV]

1. Aero 204
2. Renard R.38
3. Hawker Fury (Panther IIA engine)
4. Fairey P.4/34
5. Latecoere 298

Sorry, been away with ill heath for a while.

Do I take it that external links to pictures is permitted again ?

LOL, sorry for messing with your head howlrunner

Welcome back wombat, full house of course

I thought the Fury looked radically different to say it only has a different engine and who would have thought Belgium would produce such an up to date fighter as the R.36 before WW2?

The P.4/34 was a bit cruel on howlrunner, built as it was after the Battle but before the Fulmar, this light bomber was a sort of missing link between the two

The seaplane, Latecoere 298, is a torpedo bomber, not a racer. More pics when I have edited them.

linking to images

As far as I understand it (and a mod can correct me if I'm wrong) you can link to images if you have got them hosted somewhere but if they appear on another website you have to show a link instead.

[edit on 24-5-2006 by waynos]

Here they are;