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[Closed] Remember the old "ID this warbird" thread?

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Posted : 07/07/2018 3:44 am
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The V1 with a cockpit was actually a prototype suicide weapon I think. Only the Germans decided they weren’t that crazy after all.


 
Posted : 07/07/2018 7:57 am
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Delfin, of course, I weanted to say it was the Galeb, but the T tail was stumping me.


 
Posted : 07/07/2018 8:43 am
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Ah yes, also Japanese copies of the 163 and 262.


 
Posted : 07/07/2018 8:52 am
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Kyushu Shindin

Ohka piloted fyling bomb based on the doodlebug

Experimental Junkers Jet thing

Giant JUnkers JU290

Vaught V173

two very dull Me262 and Me163 copies that the Japanese made can't remember their names

SUD EWR Vtol German thing...

And yet; I have no friends....why is that?


 
Posted : 07/07/2018 9:00 am
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I think we should suggest that it can't be experimental or a one off. It seems total unfair, unless you're a nerd about airplanes (ahem)


 
Posted : 07/07/2018 9:01 am
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I think we should suggest that it can’t be experimental or a one off. It seems total unfair, unless you’re a nerd about airplanes (ahem)

The only function this thread has is to flush out nerds.


 
Posted : 07/07/2018 10:09 am
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I am feeling comprehensively out-nerded on this thread!

On facetube I follow RAFBABW who recently have been doing a "what cockpit" game, so how about this?


 
Posted : 07/07/2018 9:58 pm
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Posted : 08/07/2018 5:35 am
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Bottom one is a Brewster Buffalo I think.

Middle one an early Mk Mustang (Alison engined)?

Top one a Vaught of some description given the cranked wings?


 
Posted : 08/07/2018 6:59 am
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Super Corsair, still one flying I think

A36 Apache.

Republic P43 can't remember it's name  Mostly shipped out to the Chinese and Aussies.

That's it, I'm nerded out.


 
Posted : 08/07/2018 8:37 am
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Super Corsair video


 
Posted : 08/07/2018 9:19 am
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and


 
Posted : 09/07/2018 11:35 am
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North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco


 
Posted : 09/07/2018 8:02 pm
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Is the French one a Dewoitine something or other?


 
Posted : 09/07/2018 9:00 pm
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Is it a North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco?


 
Posted : 09/07/2018 10:17 pm
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Ooh, Goodyear Corsair I think.

A36 Apache

Seversky P43 Lancer

And a Dewoitine 520.  No idea what the second French plane is if it isn't a variant of the 520 - I note that the canopy and fin have a different shape.


 
Posted : 09/07/2018 10:25 pm
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Ah , didn’t notice the difference. Morane-Saulnier?


 
Posted : 09/07/2018 11:15 pm
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Posted : 09/07/2018 11:54 pm
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Delfin, and F-104?

Yes, both up at Bruntingthorpe, and I spent a happy hour and a half or so just wandering around all the planes there, and chatting to one of the co-owners of the Delfin, who let me sit in the cockpit. Although they won’t let anyone fly from the runway, she’s airworthy and I was shown the startup routine, all I had to do was flick a switch on the left side of the cockpit and she would have started up! The F104 has plastic protectors along the wings to prevent people slicing themselves open, it is literally a knife edge!


 
Posted : 10/07/2018 12:09 am
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I think cletus' is the kawasaki Ki61 Tony?


 
Posted : 10/07/2018 12:26 am
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Spot on nickc - I was hopoing the in-line engine would trick people into thinking it was German or Italian.

Will have to find something more obscure!


 
Posted : 10/07/2018 8:35 am
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Gah. Typed reply, Chrome disposed of it.

Yes, Dewoitine D520, second one was the less successful Arsenal VG-33.

And...


 
Posted : 10/07/2018 12:11 pm
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That Kawasaki had a liquid cooled Daimler Benz engine manufactured under license by Aichi (I think), hence the resemblance to German and Italian aircraft of the time (the Italian license-built Daimler Benz unit was built by Alfa Romeo!).

Oh, that's a Polikarpov I-16 in Spanish Republican colours.


 
Posted : 10/07/2018 12:17 pm
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It is indeed.

How about these:

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Posted : 10/07/2018 1:49 pm
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Swordfish?

Edit- no. Engine cowling is wrong as is torpedo angle.

Hmmm...


 
Posted : 10/07/2018 1:54 pm
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Easy one, but not particularly nice timing.

Which film (that I watched last night!) was this doomed aircraft in?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45076060


 
Posted : 05/08/2018 5:54 pm
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Valkyrie

but this is better


 
Posted : 05/08/2018 6:00 pm
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Same one 😉


 
Posted : 05/08/2018 6:05 pm
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same mark the crash plane was JU-52 HB-HOT and swiss

the eagles dare aircraft IIRC was an austrian plane

seems it was HB-HOT


 
Posted : 05/08/2018 6:08 pm
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Mrmonkfinger, my first instinct says Wildebeest


 
Posted : 05/08/2018 6:14 pm
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I just like this picture.


 
Posted : 13/08/2018 3:45 pm
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riksbar, spot on


 
Posted : 13/08/2018 4:26 pm
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Not a Warbird, but my new favourite plane of the week.

Armstrong Whitworth AW660 Argosy C1 RAF XP445


 
Posted : 14/08/2018 12:37 pm
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Argosy? Used to have loads at Benson so we were used to seeing them in the 60s/70's flying around Berkshire/Oxfordshire.


 
Posted : 14/08/2018 1:13 pm
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Ha, and there was me thinking that was a...


 
Posted : 14/08/2018 3:14 pm
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That there "Argosy" looks like a slow, creaking and leaky old tub...


 
Posted : 14/08/2018 4:21 pm
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What are the rules? I have some images of a wreck, be good trivia if some keen eyes could ID it. For fun of course.


 
Posted : 15/08/2018 12:53 am
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What are the rules?

1. Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.

2. Only two guys to a fight.


 
Posted : 15/08/2018 3:26 am
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3. First time here you HAVE TO FIGHT.


 
Posted : 15/08/2018 5:53 am
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4. Anoraks must be worn.


 
Posted : 15/08/2018 7:32 am
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Blackburn Beverly, by the way.


 
Posted : 15/08/2018 8:21 am
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Posted : 06/09/2018 11:56 pm
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Six engines... B47?


 
Posted : 07/09/2018 12:34 am
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XB-70 Valkyrie?


 
Posted : 07/09/2018 12:55 am
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