Guess that Plane! Resurrection!

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Looks like a Yak-11, though I was almost fooled by the French tricolor on the rudder.
 
Good one! I like the ones you can reasonably pull up out of memory without having to do a lot of research.
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It looks a lot like the famous Skyraider but isn't one... the only comparable aircraft to the Skyraider I know of is the Martin AM-1 Mauler so I'll be going with that one.

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Perfect shot, as usual. Your turn, sir. I actually much prefer the Mauler's proportions to the Skyraiders, except for that dinky rudder. It apparently wasn't as good an aircraft, however.
 
The Mauler looks more like a fighter, but the rugged businesslike appearance of the Skyraider still takes the victory for me. Formidable ordnance carriers, both of them!

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Now this is one I didn't recognize myself when I first saw it. And it took a good while to find out. :lol:

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Sort of looks like an He-51 with a different engine.

Where's my copy of Warplanes of the Third Reich when I need it?
 
Now as you mention it, it really looks a lot like the Heinkel! But no, it's not that plane or a version of it.

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I can't even seem to pin down the country of manufacture. It's kind of pretty in an all-business way.
 
You people keep amazing me! My source says Fairey Fantomne but it's clearly the same aircraft. Post one up! đź‘Ť

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Nope, not one of those, that's for sure... D.520 was a sleek inline engined fighter and it's not the Bloch either. Damn, I have seen this one before but can't work out the name.
 
I think I've seen, and then tried to forget, one of those somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can remember where. :dunce:

All of the torpedo and depth charge looking items sitting underneath it scream 'Navy' to me, but the roundel on the tail is throwing me off. I can't remember if the Fleet Air Arm use roundels.
 
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That design looks a bit Russian...
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Drawn badly by someone who's drunk?

I'm convinced I've seen that in the Fleet Air Arm museum, but I was about 7 at the time and so the only plane I can remember properly was Concorde.:lol:
 
jammyozzy
Drawn badly by someone who's drunk?

I'm convinced I've seen that in the Fleet Air Arm museum, but I was about 7 at the time and so the only plane I can remember properly was Concorde.:lol:
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That skinny nose, and funky prop look like a little russian crop duster that I've seen in one of my books.
 
I think I know the plane you're on about, but I'm still convinced it's a Navy plane - It looks unnecessarily compact, as if the designer had to make a big plane as small as possible. I can't think of any reason for a land based plane of that size to not be multi-engined, for example. It's like the P47's long lost, genetically deficient cousin in terms of 'planes that look too big to be single-prop.'

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Waaaaaait a minute, the small, circular intake and the huge exhaust suggest that it's a turboprop, which narrows down the era a little bit.
 
you guys are getting closer. I helped Greycap who had run out of ideas with this one, and he almost pulled it out of my hands, laughing like a madman. :dopey:
 
All I can say is, I've seen it (or something very very similar) before in a book of oddball/obscure aircraft. But for the life of me I can't place it.
 
jammyozzy
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All of the torpedo and depth charge looking items sitting underneath it scream 'Navy' to me, . . . .
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Not to mention the tail hook! :sly:

No clue, though.

Edit: Ooh! Ooh! Found it!!!

Short Seamew, 1950 or 51 British ASW aircraft.
 
Gotcha! I came here to begin giving tips but it seems they were not needed! đź‘Ť

Your turn, sir!
 

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