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Back by unpopular demand. ;)

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Clue: It's NOT what it looks like.

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SS-20 ICBM in it's missle silo, or an engine intake for a Meteor?
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Creative! But wrong in both cases.

Rarer than either of those. Definitely a manned aircraft, not a missile.

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How about radar in MiG-17 or MiG-18?

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A "Mr. Juicer 3000", and I'm guess'n somewhere south of the equator because it appears to be right hand rotation. :D

C'mon James you gotta make these harder if you wanna play with the big dawgs. :wink:

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How about radar in MiG-17 or MiG-18?

Nope! Right airframe area (no radar though) wrong type of aircraft. Further West and rarer.
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A "Mr. Juicer 3000", and I'm guess'n somewhere south of the equator because it appears to be right hand rotation. :D

This might squeeze your lemons, but no. Also wrong hemisphere.

As an aircraft and engine type, I believe this beast is technically unique.

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Caproni Campini N.1 (CC.2)

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Scott gets a warm feeling...

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WOW! Never seen one before. Thanks for the quizes to help enlighten us uneducated....
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Caproni Campini N.1 (CC.2)

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WOW! Never seen one before. Thanks for the quizes to help enlighten us uneducated....

Glad you liked it. For those googlychallanged, ;)

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It is perhaps surprising at first sight that, having been the second nation to fly an air-breathing jet-propelled aeroplane, Italy did not feature among the leading nations in this field of technology. But in truth the Caproni-Campini N.1 was no more than an ingenious freak which employed a conventional piston engine to drive a variable-pitch ducted-fan compressor with rudimentary afterburning. As such it did nothing to further gas turbine research, and was to all intents and purposes a technical dead-end.

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As designed by Campini, the aircraft did not have a jet engine in the sense that we know them today. Rather, a conventional piston engine 500 kW (750 hp) Isotta Fraschini L. 121/R.C. 40) was used to drive a compressor, which forced compressed air into a combustion chamber where it was mixed with fuel and ignited. The exhaust produced by this combustion was to drive the aircraft forward. Campini called this configuration a "thermojet" but the term motorjet is in common usage today since thermojet is now used to refer to a particular type of pulsejet (an unrelated form of jet engine).

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Campini turned to the Caproni aircraft factory to help build the prototypes, and two aircraft and a non-flying ground testbed were eventually constructed. The first flight was on August 27, 1940 with test pilot Mario De Bernardi at the controls.

Great propaganda use was made of the aircraft by Mussolini and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale recognised this at the time as the first successful flight by a jet aeroplane.

Following World War II, one of the prototypes was shipped to the United Kingdom for study at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough.

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Prototype taken to UK for tests subsequently disappeared. The other prototype is now on display at the Aeronautical Museum of Vigna di Valle in Rome and the ground testbed is at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

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This is the example in the Italian Air Force Museum.

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I wonder what it sounded like...

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How many other jet type aircraft had a tailwheel?

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How many other jet type aircraft had a tailwheel?



Me-262!

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Now, what are you doing on-line on a perfectly good Saturday night? :partyman:

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Neal Nurmi wrote:
I wonder what it sounded like...

You know I've never even thought about that, but it's a good question!
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How many other jet type aircraft had a tailwheel?

More than you'd think. As well as some V model 262s, the Yak 15.

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Now, what are you doing on-line on a perfectly good Saturday night? :partyman:

Well, it's Sunday morning here, so I'm avoiding work. :lol:

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