help! mystery plane identification

[congobob]

Anyone know what plane this is?



Looks like it has an X or H-24 engine.

[tom d. friedman]

all i can identify is that it's fugly & wouldn't want to bail out of it.

[Saabmeister]

I can't remember what it is, but it was in a mystery plane quiz in Flight Journal a few years back. It was either Russian or French, but I don't remember exactly which type of aircraft is was.

[262crew]

Looking at the canopy my guess would be Russian. Yak?

[tom d. friedman]

I can't remember what it is, but it was in a mystery plane quiz in Flight Journal a few years back. It was either Russian or French, but I don't remember exactly which type of aircraft is was.

i would have never guessed those 2 countries

[Warbird Kid]

That an inverted inline?

[Warbirdjohn]

Is that more of a wood construction from the canopy back?
-John

[b29flteng]

With the long prop shaft it appears to have had a counter-rotating prop.

[HELLDIVERS]

It's clearly a photo of the top secret Super Defender

[262crew]

Either the engine is rotated 90 degrees to the right or it has four banks of cylinders?

[Saabmeister]

AHA! It's a Sud-Est SE-580.

See Flight Journal article here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q ... i_n8931139

[JDK]

Either the engine is rotated 90 degrees to the right or it has four banks of cylinders?

That an inverted inline?

Note the original post: "Looks like it has an X or H-24 engine."

From Saabmeister's link:

Initially designed to be powered by the 24-cylinder Hispano Suiza 24Z (H type) of 2,000hp, its postwar redesign accommodated the 24-cylinder arsenal 24 H of 3,400hp. This latter engine used the cylinder blocks of the German Junkers IV12 213 engine. Two 12.1-foot-diameter coaxial, counter-rotating propellers were to be utilized for propulsion.

[hang the expense]

UH OH,Looks like bobs after another gubmint contract.