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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Mon May 25, 2009 7:51 pm

rethink here - going by the small amount of that dreadful duck-egg green/blue - is it Ruskie?
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Mon May 25, 2009 8:06 pm

Saracenman wrote:rethink here - going by the small amount of that dreadful duck-egg green/blue - is it Ruskie?


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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Mon May 25, 2009 8:21 pm

:(

Murkin?
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Mon May 25, 2009 8:23 pm

yessir :ymapplause:
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Mon May 25, 2009 8:35 pm

struggling to think of Murkin aircraft with a cockpit glazed like that

stab in the bum dark - B-36?
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Mon May 25, 2009 9:42 pm

Saracenman wrote:struggling to think of Murkin aircraft with a cockpit glazed like that

stab in the bum dark - B-36?


B-36 strategic bummer it is. :ymapplause:

Just a little bit bigger than a B-29.

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Mon May 25, 2009 10:24 pm

:-o really?

not bad for a vaguely-educated guess! =))

yes, it certainly is bigger than a B-29! i bet it dropped bigger bums (a la Inspector Clouseau) too! :p

thanks SB

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Tue May 26, 2009 9:38 pm

Dorothy, it may be an Auster J-1 Autocrat. :(
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Tue May 26, 2009 10:26 pm

spot on SB :ymapplause:

One of the more spectacular feats of the type was the first visit of a civilian aircraft to an aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious in the English Channel in October 1946


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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Wed May 27, 2009 9:30 pm

Do your worst then.

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Wed May 27, 2009 9:33 pm

oh bloodyhell - ANOTHER one of those that looks like a Dornier but isn't :((

ok then - is it a Dornier? =))
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Wed May 27, 2009 9:44 pm

Saracenman wrote:oh bloodyhell - ANOTHER one of those that looks like a Dornier but isn't :((

ok then - is it a Dornier? =))


nicht ein Dornier :p
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Wed May 27, 2009 9:50 pm

dare i ask...........................

Heinkel? =))
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Wed May 27, 2009 9:59 pm

Saracenman wrote:dare i ask...........................

Heinkel? =))


nicht Deutscher :))
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Wed May 27, 2009 10:05 pm

Japanese?

Mitsubishi?
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Wed May 27, 2009 10:08 pm

No therefore no again. ;)
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Saracenman » Wed May 27, 2009 10:09 pm

Ruskie?
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Wed May 27, 2009 10:12 pm

Saracenman wrote:Ruskie?


Neit.

This may help. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries
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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Gully » Wed May 27, 2009 10:35 pm

I believe it's a Polish PZL.37 Los.

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Stevieboy » Thu May 28, 2009 6:28 am

Gully wrote:I believe it's a Polish PZL.37 Los.

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That's the fellow Gully. Panstwowe PZL P37. :ymapplause:

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Gully » Thu May 28, 2009 10:52 am

Okay, what's this beautiful(!) creation...

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Dan4th » Thu May 28, 2009 1:42 pm

Hmmmmm.......

I THINK it's Japanese.....

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Gully » Thu May 28, 2009 1:59 pm

You're fishing, Dan4th!! ;)

It's not Japanese...

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Dan4th » Thu May 28, 2009 2:52 pm

Fishing, maybe, but they DID turn out quite a
few amphibious types in the 30s.

Is it a Curtiss or a Martin? Maybe Boeing?

In other words: Be she Murkin?

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Re: Identify the Aircraft

Postby Gully » Thu May 28, 2009 3:09 pm

Not Curtiss, Martin or Boeing...

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