PabloSniper Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 Extremely rare video 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 @ZachariasX's your turn old boy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachariasX Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 (edited) 14 hours ago, Boo said: @ZachariasX's your turn old boy It‘s not French. I mean, not totally French. Edited September 24 by ZachariasX 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlitzPig_EL Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Looks to be an ANF-Mereaux, sort of. Competitor in the French fighter trials of 1930. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachariasX Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 8 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said: Looks to be an ANF-Mereaux, sort of. Competitor in the French fighter trials of 1930. As said, it is not a French aircraft. But you certainly found what one could call its template. Remarkably enough, it is also an all metal (for the most part, rudder and tailplanes were cloth covered) aircraft, unlike the Hawker Fury or the ANF-Mereaux variants. The test pilot flew an outside loop with it as display maneuver. It had the unofficial European speed record for planes with a fixed undercarridge. The test pilot in question also found the aircraft superior to the Hawker Fury. Although it appears that the rest of the operational pilots didn‘t really share that optimism, despite mock-dogfights (performed with the one said test pilot that was happy to fly the crate) giving substance to the claim. The emergence of monoplanes with retractable undercarriage however pulled down the lid on that kind of aircraft. It didn‘t help that in the second half of the 1930‘s only a dozen or so could be built. But they saw active service in WW2 up to 1944, maybe even 1945. But hard to tell what some did with just a single aircraft. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper117 Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 I hope it doesn't fly to high... it's wings might melt! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachariasX Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 17 minutes ago, Trooper117 said: I hope it doesn't fly to high... it's wings might melt! Correct! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 Ikarus IK-2 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachariasX Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 3 hours ago, Mysticpuma said: Ikarus IK-2 🙂 Exactly! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 Okay, here's some cockpit bits 🙂 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 1 hour ago, Mysticpuma said: Okay, here's some cockpit bits 🙂 Gloster Gladiator? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 19 minutes ago, Boo said: Gloster Gladiator? Wow! Yep, nailed it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 OK this could be immediately obvious or devilishly tricky.. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlitzPig_EL Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 Fairy Alabacore? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper117 Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 With those guns you can go anywhere... I'd go west young man... 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 5 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said: Fairy Alabacore? Think slower 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlitzPig_EL Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 Curtiss Seamew? I'm really lost on this one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 41 minutes ago, BlitzPig_EL said: Curtiss Seamew? I'm really lost on this one. Think considerably better 🙂 A little help - those guns are there for gunnery practice...not defence... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lusekofte Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 This might very well be the tail of a two engined airplane. It might not be flaps we are seeing but elevators. I think the uniform is US so my guess is B 26 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper117 Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 Cold, ice cold... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Serpent Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 Lysander? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 8 hours ago, Sea Serpent said: Lysander? Well done sir! One of a number of configurations for gunnery training in Canada (and presumably good prep for those long hours in a freezing FN turret to come). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 8 hours ago, Lusekofte said: This might very well be the tail of a two engined airplane. It might not be flaps we are seeing but elevators. I think the uniform is US so my guess is B 26 When i saw the picture that was my thought which is why the devil in me chose it. Look closely though and you'll see the elevators present on the far tip of the wing and some leading edge slats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Serpent Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 On 9/27/2024 at 6:26 PM, Sea Serpent said: No-one gonna take a guess? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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