Identify the Aircraft

[Dan4th]

Vickers Vagrant?

Vickers Vacuum?

Vickers Vegetable?

Vickers Vague?

Tail looks Vickers.....

Danf.

[Spitfire]

No - not Vickers either - sorry ....... good lord I may finally have a good one..............

......... but then SBs not here yet is he

[RLN]

Supermarine Attacker?

[Xplumberlives]

Isn't it a HAWKER designed test vehicle?

[Spitfire]

Not Supermarine Attacker - well not by name but you could say from its origins that was sort of warm-ish and to be fair to SM with his earlier muses that it had Supermarine Swift looks I did some more research and I will add that although its not - it has also got a sort of connection - ish

Definitely not a Hawker

There's also a connection to Vulcans - in a 'type' sort of way

[Saracenman]

I'm not convinced that it's even British - those roundels suggest it could be either garlic-powered or spaghetti-fuelled - what say ye oh Oral Emitter of Flame

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[Spitfire]

It is actually fuelled entirely by bacon & eggs with fright bread - no garlic or spaghetti has got anywhere near it to my knowledge and belief

[Saracenman]

Handley Page HP88?

[Xplumberlives]

Also designated YB2

[Spitfire]

Handley Page HP88?

Correct - and it was interesting that it was a British research aircraft, built to test the aerodynamics of the Handley Page Victor design and was essentially a scaled-down version of that aircraft. There are elements of the Supermarine Attacker and Swift in it i.e. the wing roots .....but look at that interesting wing shape.



Only one was made and it crashed due to a tailplane servo control system failure.

Back to you SM - of course you don't know ANY aircarft at all and you're just guessing (as if )

[Saracenman]

LOVELY shape those wings have

Spitfire, that was down to much and dedicated research! a huge slice of luck too - your last clue with the loose Vulcan connection, i fortunately plumped straight for the HP Victor before anything else. i still know very few aeroplanes!

well, I'll now have to try and remember which dastardly fiendish aeroplane i found the other night, in case of such a win............erm.............

edit: here you go then



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[Spitfire]

So that would be the Convair XB-36 then





So very dastardly and fiendish it didn't need much searching - sorry

[Xplumberlives]

I wonder how many miles to the gallon it got cross country?

[Saracenman]

bloodyhell - i KNEW i should've used the uber-sneaky one instead

over to you Spitfire (at least you beat SB to it though! )

[Stevieboy]

Having seen some of SM's take offs in FS I guess that he's investigating having tracks fitted to his VC-10 model.

[Spitfire]

Taking my life in my hands - giving you the whole image

[Dan4th]

Looks German.......

Has enough guns on it!

D.

[Spitfire]

Ok - I'll give you German - even after I psp'd all the markings off

[Xplumberlives]

It's the well known;

Dornier/Heinkel/Messersmidt/Feisler!

[Spitfire]

It's the well known;

Dornier/Heinkel/Messersmidt/Feisler!

MMmmmm now I'm on the horns of a dimella - do I say it IS one of those or it ISN'T one of those

Or do I say nothing

[Dan4th]

I would personally advise you say nothing.......

Name, Rank, Serial Number is all that's req'd.

Danf.

[Xplumberlives]

Heinkel He 277?

[Mackrick]

Thought the 277 was 4 engined not 2 .

Heinkel 274 ?

[Spitfire]

Nope & Nope to the Heinkel guesses .... now if I can just keep SB away for a little bit longer

[Stevieboy]