Identify the Aircraft

[Dan4th]

SM:

Great Minds, etc........

Danf.

Edit: Is there an echo in here???????

[Stevieboy]

Not DH Canada.

Hint: If you don't join one of the sides you don't need to change sides.

[Dan4th]

Please don't tell me it's SWISS!!!!!

(...Stevieboy: "Okay, I won't"...)

Danf.

[Stevieboy]

I wouldn't tell you a lie sir so I won't tell you that it's Swiss.

[Xplumberlives]

Just off to post some plane pics in the can you guess what the car/bike might be thread!

[Iggie]

A hybrid perhaps?
It looks german, but the undercarriage looks British (as do the engines); based on the DO 17?
Am I close??? (not at all I bet......)

[Stevieboy]

A hybrid perhaps?
It looks german, but the undercarriage looks British (as do the engines); based on the DO 17?
Am I close??? (not at all I bet......)

Congratulations Iggie. You've won your bet.

Not a hybrid, not British, not German, not based on the Do17, not close.

I did give a clue to the nationality earlier in the thread though.

[Saracenman]

was it built by Dätwyler?

edit - or the slickly-named "Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein"?

[Stevieboy]

was it built by Dätwyler?

edit - or the slickly-named "Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein"?

Not Swiss.

[Saracenman]

paid too much attention to XPL's comment

did we determine that it is in fact Canadian?

[Spitfire]

Swedish, Portugese or Spanish... or even Irish

Apart from the Swiss they are all the neutrals - which is where I believe your clue may have been pointing

[Saracenman]

ah yes - reading over the last few replies i think you have it!

the Spanish had quite a history of copying Kraut a/c didn't they?

[Spitfire]

Casa 2.111 ??

[Saracenman]

don't think it is mate...



u/c is all wrong for a start

come on SB - give us some clues please

[Spitfire]

Yeah I know - on looking again .......tail's wrong too .........Bet it's close though

Perhaps a Saab of some kind .... although it looks too German

[Cluny]

Its a Saab 18

[Spitfire]

Damn I was nearly there

[Stevieboy]

Its a Saab 18

It is a Saab 18 Cluny but which? B18 or S18?

[Spitfire]

Rather than photobucketing these as I didn't get it and can't be arsed ... and to help Cluny with Mr Pedantic

Its the S18 - and he posted the correct picture



Saab S18

as the B18 has totally different engine nacelles

Saab B18

[Saracenman]

clearly the S18 has air-cooled radial engines, and the B18 has liquid-cooled straight or V

well done Cluny - I'm certain you're right!

[Xplumberlives]

So, where's the complete photo, eh?

D.

So sorry D4th, how very rude of me (damn night shifts)! Here you go;









And absolutely NO CARS!!!!!!!!

[Dan4th]

DXP:

Well, yeah, but Cord owned Lycoming and
Stinson Aircraft!

Nice looking hauler -- looks TOUGH!

Danf.

[Xplumberlives]

DXP:

Well, yeah, but Cord owned Lycoming and
Stinson Aircraft!

Nice looking hauler -- looks TOUGH! = BUSINESS LIKE!

Danf.

[Stevieboy]

Its a Saab 18

OK I'll give it to you Paul.

The reconnaissance variant of the SAAB 18 - S 18A - were rebuilt B 18A bombers, which were modified as long-range reconnaissance aircraft when the more powerful B 18B bomber became available.

The B 18A/S 18A was fitted with two Swedish-built ”pirate copies” of the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp STW C-3 engine, each delivering 1.065 hp. The aircraft had a crew of three - pilot, navigator and observer.

The aircraft were provided to the reconnaissance Wings F 3 at Malmslätt and F 11 at Nyköping. Later, ten S 18As were re-based to the mixed Wing F 21 at Kallax near Luleå.

The conversion of the 55 aircraft were made by the Air Force’s workshop at Västerås (CVV). The installation comprised cameras of type SKa 15 and SKa 10.

In 1949-1950, the S 18As were equipped with the reconnaissance radar PS-18/A (American designation AN/APS-4), mounted in a capsule under the nose of the aircraft (see piccie). A special designed camera - SKa 13 - was installed for mission during darkness. It was used together with flares. The aircraft were also equipped with the radar altitude indicator PH-10/A.

[Spitfire]

Ah yes - of course - the good old S18A at Kallax near Luleå....remember it well .... and when they added the specially designed camera SKa 13 and the radar altitude indicator PH-10/A that actually made it for me - dont know how I forgot that.