Guess that Plane! Resurrection!

  • Thread starter Mike Rotch
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jammyozzy
:D

This may be very easy or very hard, i'm not really sure.

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Looks like a Bell Airacuda to me, with the cannons removed. Sort of a clumsy precursor to the Me110.
 
Zardoz
Never seen it before. It really looks like something they dreamed up for the first Indiana Jones movie!
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hehe, quite a few Bell aircraft are 'interesting' to say the least. For example, the Airacobra and the X1.
 
Yeah, one of my favorite books when I was a kid was a copy of Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1939-1946 that I got for Christmas one year. I know tons of obscure stuff from that era.

Here's one of the most massively useful civil aircraft ever built:

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That was in Indiana Jones too :dopey:


*edit* Way off! It was UBF-2 in Indiana Jones.
 
jammyozzy
A Cessna 172 Amphibian?

Looks too weedy to be a 182, and definetely too small to be a Caravan.
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You're on the right track.
 
hmm...the only other small Cessnas I know are the 152(?) and the 206. I'm not sure if there's an amphibious version of either though.
 
Duke
Yeah, one of my favorite books when I was a kid was a copy of Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1939-1946 that I got for Christmas one year. I know tons of obscure stuff from that era.

Here's one of the most massively useful civil aircraft ever built:

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Cessna 182 amphibian?
 
Flame-returns
Cessna 192?
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Close enough. It's a Cessna 185 Skywagon.

I'll give it to you since jammyozzy specifically said it wasn't a 180-series, though he was close too. Post one up, F-r!
 
a6fwu


Since you managed to identify my last choice simply by googling the brand (and you managed to get it accurate to a mere 4 feet in length, 2 inches on the propeller, one (optional) seat, and a significant amount of horsepower) this should be no problem for the GTPers.
 
Mike Rotch
Rules are simple. I will begin by posting a plane. Participants - participation is open to all - will try name the plane. The person who gets it right will post the next plane and so on and so on.

It may occur that the person who posts the picture is unavailable to confirm its correctness. If this happens, the guess can be validated in a google image search.

If the plane is so fookin tough that no-one can get it, either the pic poster nominates a new person, or posts a new pic, or if they arent around, first person to volunteer gets to put a pic up.
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Sorry. I didn't see a "no-Google" rule, so I "abused" it.
 
I used the term "google abuse" rather loosely as while it is not banned it seems faintly unsporting, note the fact that I gave you the point anyway.

If no one can get the plane I just posted I have a different aircraft which I would be interested in posting.
 
It looks like an Aeronca Champ to me. One of my favorites!
 
It looks like a DeHaviland.
Or, some version of the plane the Harrison Ford flew in "Six days, Seven Nights."
But I can't remember if he said what it was. And I'm not in the mood for 90+ minutes of Ann Heche...
Recognize that radial engine as a Pratt-Whitney of some variety or another...
 
Mike was right on the Dehavilland Beaver, and so was Gil, but he didn't have the name.

Mike's entry looks Italian - the Italians were big into trimotors. But then again, they were not big into twin rudders, so it may be a French design. I'm just not coming up with anything specific.
 

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