http://i68.tinypic.com/14e2qed.jpg

Yak-3?

Maybe a yak 9?

I’d say a Yak-3, maybe even this exact one

Thanks both. Nailed it.

http://www.warbirddepot.com/aircraft_fighters_yak3-greenwood.asp

Next:

No cheating by googling the tail number…

A Hawker Sea Fury, with the Centaurus engine and 5-blade prop replaced with a P&W Wasp, probably from a Skyraider. Looking at the canopy I’d say it has also had a second seat installed.

Hawker sea Fury.

Hawker Sea Fury.

I want this …

chewkw – the Romanians still make them. Fill your boots

You want weird

Love these threads….the more obscure the aircraft the better

That B17…have the engines been Photoshop ped on, or was it some sort of post war test bed..

A turboprop B-17? A first for me, at any rate.
Ah, XB-38, prototype using Allison V-12 engines instead of rotary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_XB-38_Flying_Fortress

Come on then spotters of STW…. Name this plane

The B17 has got inline engines instead of radials. Edit- Beaten by Countzero

Blohm Und Voss BV-141

Asymmetrical oddness above is a Blohm & Voss BV141

Ten points to the Count!

Blohm & Voss BV141

How about this?

Avro Manchester

Prone control Gloster Meteor-the front pilot lays on the stomach. Supposed to be better for resisting G forces

Well I know there were highly modified Meteors for test firing ejector seats, but I think they were all mid mounted, nor shoehorned on the front.

Avro Manchester

I used to have a copy of ‘Gunner’s Moon’ by John Bushby which recounted the ‘joys’ of flying Manchesters operationally with 83 Sqn. Supposedly they didn’t fly very well on one engine, which wouldn’t have mattered so much if the RR Vulture had actually *worked*.

Well I know there were highly modified Meteors for test firing ejector seats, but I think they were all mid mounted, nor shoehorned on the front.

You mean like this one, which belongs to Martin Baker?

How about this:

Hurricane with a slip wing fuel tank?

This one, and for bonus geekery points what’s special about it?

Slip wing Hawker Hurricane. For improving short field performance-the top wing was released at altitude

Probably best if the name wasn’t across the side of the aircraft… Obviously a Mirage though!

Pleased to say, my childhood knowledge hasn’t deserted me and I’ve known all of these bar Chewkws!

Shame it takes a war to produce something as cool as this

Australian Mirage II -as for something special, built in Aus by CAC?

That it is Samunkin

Also a shame there are no Dh Hornet survivors anywhere samunkim

Australian Mirage II -as for something special, built in Aus by CAC?

Close. That’s the one Dassault put an RR Avon in, in the interests of selling Mirages to the Australians in the first place. CAC went on to build 100+ Atar-powered Mirage IIIs:

and this/these

bought out of retirement for the Korean war

Ratherintobago is that the experimental Avon engined Mirage?

One of the XP-82 twin mustang prototypes is fairly close to flight now in the US

http://xp-82twinmustangproject.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/march-xp-82-twin-mustang.html

XP-32 DLDR

Did they finally get hold of a left hand propeller ?

I’ve just been reading about this.

In 1944 one of these flew from Bordeaux to within 12 miles of New York and took pictures of the skyline and then flew back, the flight took took 32 hours.

fw200 the only 4 engined german bomber of WW2?

only that one appears to have 6!!