Guess that Plane! Resurrection!

  • Thread starter Mike Rotch
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I've got one, but I can't get Imageshack to come up. I'll try again in a bit. . .




Imageshack is back, so here's the proper posting method:




^^^^^ Overhead view, actually a later version. Bonus points for the actual designation of each version!



And for fun, here's a squadron shot of the plane and ground crew, my dad is 3rd from the left, front row.
The aircraft in the background is a different plane, so don't use it for clues.

As far as I know, only one of these planes survives, and it's not airworthy. It's near where I live, though, and it's one from Dad's squadron!


More bonus points (as if the points mattered!) for a statement of the most significant aspect of this aircraft.
 
Looks like an AJ Savage, the planes with the straight stab would be AJ-2's.

The plane was the largest carrier-borne aircraft at the time, and also the Navy's first nuclear bomber.
 
Good job. That wasn't even hard, was it?

The surviving plane is on the flight-line display at the Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola NAS.
 
Stig22121
next plane?
if not, can i suggest one?
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Go for it. I have a couple candidates in mind, but don't have pictures available at the moment. So I'll defer to Stig22121 if I can reserve the right to post one at a later date.
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! if you guesss this, you are awesome. and in order to get this right, you have to use the proper name. there are two names i will accept. :)
 

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It's an ekranoplan. This particular one is known as the Caspian Sea Monster because of the fact that it shows up on radar screens with the echo signature of a ship, but moving at aircraft velocities. I think the model shown here is officially the KM, but I'm not that versed on them, so I could be wrong with the designation.
 
Ekranoplan is actually the type of vehicle, not the name of this particular one. They're built to carry very heavy loads very fast using the ground-effect cushion near the surface of the water. They'd work over ground, too, but it would have to be very flat. That Monster will haul a 100-ton load at 250+ mph! Nobody but the Soviets could have come up with something like that.
 
Actually... Nobody but the Soviets could have funded something like that. There were also a few companies in the west researching vehicles operating on the Ekranoplan's basic idea - the Bernoulli Principle. It's just that the Soviet government funded the project hugely, while in the west, it was mostly ignored by big companies or the military.
 
They were ignored by the West mostly because they only make real sense in the Soviet Union. They need a large, inland body of water like the Black Sea or the Caspian Sea to make any usable sense, and then only if you have a lot of large, important stuff that absolutely, positively needs to be on the other side of it now.

They can only take off in waves up to about 10 or 11 feet high, maximum. So pretty much the open ocean is out - heck, on a bad day, the Great Lakes would be too much for it.



Found some video of it on Youtube - sorry, it's in Russian with no subtitles, but man, watch that thing cruise by...
 
Heh, the US, in particular Boeing is looking into a massive Ekranoplan type aircraft called the Pelican ULTRA, and would be a WIG type aircraft. The big difference between the Pelican and the Russian WIG's is that the Pelican apperently won't land in water, but on large solid runways such as the 15,000 ft one at Edwards AFB. It would also have actual wings, for use over land where it could fly over 20,000 ft, but will hurt fuel efficiency though...

Anyway... How about this plane?
 

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Looks like a Douglas A2D Skyshark, the development of the good old Skyraider with a turboprop driving contra rotating propellers.
 
Heh, I should have known that would be too easy :P
I'll have to see if I can find something really odd/rare in my collection of pics...
 
Don't investigate any more, I've found the problem. You have http:// twice in it. :)

And about those videos, both of them, great going. The B-29 looks 100% real and the B-52 adds the 100% sound! 👍
 
Greycap
Don't investigate any more, I've found the problem. You have http:// twice in it. :)

And about those videos, both of them, great going. The B-29 looks 100% real and the B-52 adds the 100% sound! 👍
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Thanks, Greycap. *scratches head* I wonder how I missed that...
 

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