Identify the Aircraft

[Cluny]

ArmstrongWhitworth Albermarle

[Stevieboy]

YEP. Yours again.

[Cluny]

What , again lol
Try this one

Shouldn't be too difficult

[Stevieboy]

Room 101F101?

[Cluny]

Room 101F101?

Spot on , its the F-101 Voodoo at Coventry showing its Vietnam era [i dont know if it was involved in the conflict itself] paintwork during some restoration work back in the summer



Your turn again Steve

[Stevieboy]

Someone else have a go please. I'm sure Cluny wants to take his anorak off too.

[Mayfly]

well I have to confess to never have hearing of half of the a/c you choose let alone have an inkling about where to find out about them, but I don't mind watching & learning

[Tom.com]

the thing is, you are going to have to advertise this thread because no-one is following it anymore.

[Mackrick]

Miles M.14 Magister

[Spitfire]

Someone else have a go please.

It's all very well you saying that but you have such an encyclopaedic knowledge of planes large and small from all eras that personally my brain is spinning with the sheer effort of trying to identify them
I mean this one has a 4 bladed prop and 2 wings - and that's me finished

[Stevieboy]

Miles M.14 Magister

Sorry. No red star ( ) for you on this one.

[Spitfire]

In that case it's an IllyushinMigYak Mk 6b with optional heated rear windscreen and cigarette lighter

[Hihonyr8811]

You forgot the cup holder

[Stevieboy]

In that case it's an IllyushinMigYak Mk 6b with optional heated rear windscreen and cigarette lighter

Very close. I've highlighted, in blue, the correct parts of your answer Spitfire.

[Spitfire]

Well........In that case its got to be a Sukhoi SU5 with optional compressor jet engine (& cup holder)


In January 1944, the design bureau of O.P. Sukhoi, acting on its own initiative, started preliminary studies for a single-seat fighter with a combined powerplant comprising the main piston engine M-107A with a propeller and an auxiliary compressor jet engine (CJE) to act as a booster. The CJE compressor was rotated by the M-107A engine using a shaft.

The completed design was sent to the USSR PCAI for review and was subsequently incorporated in the draft of the 1944 AFRA aircraft prototype development plan. On 22nd May 1944, SDC adopted a resolution, which, among other things, obligated P.O. Sukhoi "… to design and build a single-seat experimental aeroplane with the VK-107A engine, outfitting it with an additional CJE designed and built by TsIAM…"

At the beginning of June, the design bureau started to design the aeroplane subsequently referred to as I-107 and later renamed the Su-5. The conceptual design mentioned above was used as the design basis to be subsequently resubmitted, following some alterations, to the leadership of PCAI and AFRA for review. In the autumn of 1944, approval was given to the opinions delivered on the conceptual design and the report of the mock-up committee.

Due to a late delivery of the powerplant, the flying prototype took a very long time to build. The first flight on the Su-5 aircraft was performed by test pilot G.I. Komarov on 6th April 1945. The manufacturer's flight tests continued till 15th June, and that day saw the VK-107A engine break up in flight.

During the down time, there being no replacement engine available, the aircraft was fitted with a new laminated-profile wing developed by CAHI.

The new VK-107A engine with a limited service life was received at the beginning of July, with the flight testing resuming in early August and continuing till 18th October. The flights were discontinued, the engine having reached the end of its life. All attempts to arrange for a delivery of a new engine met with failure. There being a limited number of powerplants available, PCAI instructed TsIAM to supply them on a priority basis for the I-250 aeroplanes designed by A.I. Mikoyan as the latter were more advanced and had entered small-batch production. Note that the manufacturer's tests of the Su-5 aeroplane failed to reach the design performance targets.

A November 1946 resolution of USSR CM terminated work on a number of aircraft that "had lost the edge," the Su-5 having been named among them. By that time, testing had already begun on aeroplanes with turbojets.

And I only got that by sheer luck - I trawled through hundreds of Google images of Russian stuff and hit the exact one by total accident on about page 40

[Stevieboy]

Yep. That's the one. All yours.

[Spitfire]

Got man flu - 'it hurts everywhere' - back later

Ok - much later - after a shower and a cup of tea with paracetemol I've found one .......
What are these boys flying......

[MOD]

Lancaster??

Ian

[Spitfire]

No - Sorry Ian not the Lanc'

[Stevieboy]

Have we met our Waterloo here?

[Spitfire]

Have we met our Waterloo here?

Yeaaaaa - I've been waiting for you - where you bin

A pair of rubber boots it is sir - your knowledge - as ever - astounds

The next one I do will be just one rivet in close up - then we'll see just how good you are

Back to you - let's see what obscurity you can drag up this time

[Stevieboy]

Not too obscure this one (actually saw service ).

[Spitfire]

MMMmmm - first thought was Sea Vixen - but there doesn't seem to be a tail joiner high up
Close ??

[Stevieboy]

MMMmmm - first thought was Sea Vixen - but there doesn't seem to be a tail joiner high up
Close ??

Certainly is a naval aircraft but not a Sea Vixen.

Maybe our resident Murkin can help with this one.

[Bovril]

cutlass?