Game: Guess the airplane type!

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 23 Feb 2006, 12:20

Is it post WOII?

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 23 Feb 2006, 23:01

regi wrote:if guessing is okay, I just say a Mustang with wing tip fuel tanks.
But it won't be that, yeh yeh.

You're closer than you think you are

Koen

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 23 Feb 2006, 23:02

EHAM wrote:Is it post WOII?

Yes it's post WOII

Koen

regi · Post by **regi** » 24 Feb 2006, 19:39

next try: a cavalier mustang

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 24 Feb 2006, 20:54

you're coming closer and closer

Koen

regi · Post by **regi** » 25 Feb 2006, 13:29

how much closer can I get? The swiss connection brings me at Pilatus but it isn't a Pilatus.

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 25 Feb 2006, 13:57

The design of the "cavalier mustang" was taken over by another american aircraft manufacturer (a very famous one), they took the design to this level (another engine, ...). Two prototypes were builded from the latest design. The Cavalier mustang prototype was handed over to the other manufacturer in 1970.

The two prototypes were given civilian registrations rather than military serial numbers, and were never given any military designations. They first flew on April 9 and July 8, 1983.

I need the name of that manufacturer and the name of the aircraft.

Koen

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 25 Feb 2006, 20:58

Is it the Piper PA48 Enforcer?

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 26 Feb 2006, 06:36

That's correct EHAM

Here is some more information about it:
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p51_14.html

Koen

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 26 Feb 2006, 15:06

Thanks Koen!

Here's the next one:

regi · Post by **regi** » 27 Feb 2006, 14:06

didn't want to send the enforcer name because , well, I thought, well...a prototype, you know.
Okay, you got me. Your turn again.

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 05 Mar 2006, 17:08

Come on, nobody knows? First flight of this bird was in 1944.

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 05 Mar 2006, 20:42

jan_olieslagers wrote:Japanase fighter

It's not Made in Japan

fokker_f27 · Post by **fokker_f27** » 06 Mar 2006, 17:48

made by Messerschmitt?

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 06 Mar 2006, 18:55

fokker_f27 wrote:made by Messerschmitt?

Looks more like a Focke Wulf to me, but it's not German either

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 07 Mar 2006, 19:40

jan_olieslagers wrote:russia, perhaps?

Not Russian either

jan_olieslagers wrote: ps if big piston engines have an interest/fascination for you, do some web searching for the Hawker Typhoon and its Napier engine - fabulous

Thanks I'll take a look

regi · Post by **regi** » 07 Mar 2006, 23:18

sorry Jan to disappoint you, but the UK made fighters with radial engines:
http://www.eagle.ca/~harry/aircraft/fury/

okay, so that is the solution: a Sea Fury.
(and now somebody is going to say it is a tempest with the same bristol engine)

anyway,
something more about the engine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bris ... 750pix.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Centaurus
just tell me, doesn't that engine look fabulous?

EHAM · Post by **EHAM** » 08 Mar 2006, 19:08

regi wrote:okay, so that is the solution: a Sea Fury.(

Sorry to disappoint you, but it's not a Sea Fury