Sorry Duke, none of those is even close, but it really has a DB engine (or a development of it, not to make this too easy).
Look at the canopy, the shape of the nose and the undercarriage door... there is another fighter with almost similar parts and that may give you a clue, it was developed alongside this one and the designation only differs by one number.
Look at the canopy, the shape of the nose and the undercarriage door... there is another fighter with almost similar parts and that may give you a clue, it was developed alongside this one and the designation only differs by one number.
With the turned-down snout and the inverted-V engine it almost looks like a Heinkel He-113, but you said I was not even close on the He-112, and besides, the forepart of the canopy isn't quite right. Hrm.
I'm going to go with the Spitfire as well. The Hurricane was superseded by the Tempest/Typhoon, I believe, and went out of production before the war ended.
WOW! Holy life support, Batman! Nice to see you back, Greycap!
It ain't B-29, because the lack of scale is fooling you.
It's a Lockeed P-80 Shooting Star, but Greycap says it's the designation that counts. From the tail markings, I'm going to assume it's Navy, making it either a P-80 Sea Star or the training version the T-33. I didn't notice an arrestor hook, which means it's probably not the later version, so I'm going with TV-1 or TV-2.
Thanks for the welcome, I haven't disappeared entirely in any point but this thread just lost my attention as my spare time got a serious cut last summer.
It is indeed a Shooting Star, but one of the extremely few examples of this very designation made. The tail markings are throwing you off Duke, despite what common (but false) belief says these few planes had markings and were flown wearing them.
How about an RT33A (recon) model? I'm not certain, I'm not a huge airplane historian. I think my Grandfather flew these (or was it the F80?) during Korea, but I can't recall for sure...
I have to reveal it now as I will be away for three weeks and that's an overly long time to waity for the answer.
It's a YP-80A, one of two examples shipped to Italy in early 1945 and that thus were true WWII aircraft, unlike commonly believed. The tail markings are pretty similar to those found in some Mustangs based in Italy at the time.
The right hand plane is a YF-12A, any guesses on the left hand one? It's an SR-71A airframe, but it was designated as a one-of-a-kind model when this pic was taken.
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