Identify this Bird

What kind of F-18?

A Super Hornet, now, are you going to put me out of my misery or what?

1, Boeing F/A-18 Hornet

Yep.

2, B-1B Lancer

Nup. Notice the contrails are very far apart which indicates engines spaced apart.

3, T-28 Trojan (a bit unsure here)

Yep.

4, Very early P-51 Mustang, possibly P-51A

Yep.

[edit on 25/5/2009 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]

More more more!. Do you think we now have enough new members around to restart the aircraft picture quiz?

Wow...This thread got a great response...who would of though that some blurry picture taken at an airshow could actually generate some discussion.

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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.

Glossy finish,eh ?

Could this be part of a Blue Angels picture....... A-4 Skyhawks, perhaps... which would infer smoke rather than contrail(s).

The Winged Wombat

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!

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

I'm going to say it's a goose with rhumatoid arthritis!

Or perhaps an emu using a hand glider!!!