Identify this Bird, page 2

reply to post by C0bzz

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Is the second one a Hercules?

Third P-51 Mustang?

And fourth a P-40?


**EDIT: D'oh missed the last post!

[edit on 25/5/09 by Chadwickus]

reply to post by C0bzz

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The tail-end of your second aircraft is bugging me.... The B-1's stabs are placed a little higher on the vertical stab than the picture.... It doesn't fit the S-3's profile.... and it just screams "airliner" at me with that high-gloss finish that military aircraft avoid like the plague (though it could be a show-bird of some sort).

The tail has a reasonably close match to the RB-66.... but I don't think any of those are still being flown - anywhere.

It's a closer match to the B-47, with a longer and sleeker tail section - though I don't know of any of those being flown in restored/historical status.

Otherwise - that tail configuration doesn't seem to appear on many subsonic aircraft. It is present on the F-104 and many other supersonic designs.

On that note - I was just doing some research into supersonic wing/control surface design and ran across a gem of an article - will follow up on it in another thread that it pertains to.

It's a Tu-95 BEAR.

www.airliners.net...

Originally posted by C0bzz
It's a Tu-95 BEAR.

www.airliners.net...

I should have guessed..... the one that was giving me a problem was a Russian aircraft, as I was assuming all of them to be of US origin (as all the others were). The wash visible also reminded me of something that would come off of a prop, and not a jet....

Oh well, good show!

reply to post by grantbeed

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the tail gives it all away. it is the f-4 phantom

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