rgmwa Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Another photo reversed to fool us. Goodyear Inflatoplane. Correct. Hard to fool you guys, but try this one (can't get it to display full size for some reason): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 You make it just too easy. Beechcraft Wee Bee. The prototype was destroyed when the San Diego Air and Space Museum burned down in 1978. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexrbetter Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Another photo reversed to fool us. Goodyear Inflatoplane. Does that make it the "Deflatoplane" then? That reminds me, in 1827 in a graveyard in Vienna a guy was walking past Beethhoven's grave and heard strange music coming from the grave. It was very strange and music experts gathered to try to understand what the sounds were. Then suddenly one of the experts deciphered what it was, it was "Beethoven's 9th" playing backwards, most curious. The next day more strange music, with clues from the day before it was established it was "Beethoven's 8th" playing backwards. the day after it was "Beethoven's 7th" The following day as all the Experts and more who had gathered for this strange phenomenon were listening to "Beethoven's 6th" playing backwards and contemplating the meaning of it all, one of the cemetery's gravediggers was walking past, he leant his head in and asked what was going on? After carefully explaining all the recent days events and their bewilderment of it all, the Gravedigger casually replied; "Oh that's just Beethoven decomposing ......" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Groan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Sorry, a mistake in my identification in post 302. The correct name is Beecraft, not Beechcraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Wee Bee it is. I'll obviously have to try harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Looks like Enfield McCulloch 2 stroke engine. Often used in Flying Flea.. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskpilot Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Did it melt on the hotplate? Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeK Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Looks like a Hoax to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Text from the page where this image originated: All of these photos are computer generated forensic composite illustrations. None of them are official USAF photos. Since the USAF seems very reluctant to de-classify these birds, these illustrations were created to give people an idea of what they looked like. Yes, they really did exist, but due to some stability problems, this particular model was scrapped. Another page says it is a wooden mockup of a design being tested by the USAF based on Nazi plans. Put the two statements together to work out why it looks like it is flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 ID blurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskpilot Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Actually, it's an experimental re-entry vehicle. I don'r know any more than that, but it did exist..........once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Nice try Doug, but no kewpie doll this time. (Or you referring to the saucer? If so, how did they propose to launch it in the first place?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merc Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 ID blurred.[ATTACH=full]53550[/ATTACH] Pond racer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Yep. Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan) Pond Racer, built for Bob Pond for the Reno Air Races. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 The block pattern ramp probably gives away the country of origin of this X Plane. Twin engined heavy interceptor; it did more than 40 test flights. Eventually adopted by another country as a production aircraft. One interesting feature; the shock cone is fixed. Intake air is regulated by an axially translatable nose cone ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdseye Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Truly a flipper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Very similar to a MiG 152A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Spot on. The E-152A, designed by the MiG bureau, NATO recognition name Flipper. The technology was transferred to China where quite a few years later it went into production as the J-8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 The page I looked at was in French I believe, and the English, or at least American translated version did not work. They referred to it as the Ye-152A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 The page I looked at was in French I believe, and the English, or at least American translated version did not work. They referred to it as the Ye-152A. Peter, I'd guess that's phonetic, as E in Russian is pronounced Ye. eg: the name Elena is pronounced Yelena . I've noticed in a quite a few publications, that they translate designations to the pronunciation rather than the spelling. I think it happens when Russians translate the document to English. They take it a bit literally and then a third party will translate that to their language, thus extending the mis-interpretation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Spartan Executive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 While I leave you to ponder the plane above, I'm going to depart from the normal format of this thread and tell you about this unusual aircraft which looks like it may have been taken from a simulator, but is an actual aircraft with a number of photos of it and a Wikipedia page. Google it. The plane is a He111z Zwilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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