Warbird Information Exchange

[quote="Mark Allen M"]Couldn't think of a catchy title this morning so this will have to do So have at it you Aviation scholarly type, educate me. What are we looking at and what's the story on a few of these?

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Caption: Fred Hopscotch, and unassuming tech-Rep wonders to himself "How in the H E double Tooth Picks am I supposed to get on this Big Gas Bird? I can't possibly reach that first foot step without a boost."
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Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

You're welcome... I just hope I have my facts straight!

And I know what you mean about finding this info... I used to spend entirely too much time scouring the net and digging through books and rags, usually to help some fellow modelers and wing-nuts. But burn-out hit fast and hard, and I now gots-me an interminable case of the lazees.


I also used to run some ID quizzes on a few forums, so... here's a couple more 'unusual' types for folks to identify. Shouldn't be too hard with this crowd...






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Skoda Kauba V4
and SL-6

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

The B-17 "The Last Straw" was part of the flight that landed during the Pearl Harbor attack. Later served in Australia.

Steve

Tsk, tsk, Gary, as has been said, French. The rule of thumb (which has exceptions) is post 1930s, stripes on the rudder, French, stripes on the fin, British. The French also helpfully wrote the name and designation and weight on the rudder stripes, too.

Have to say, that's a thing I've never seen before, and I want one, now. Something about the wood inlay* engine cowls...

Regards,


*Joke.

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

I knew they'd be too easy...


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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

I'll open,
#6 Leduc 0.21/22
#7 here mounted on a Bloch MB 161 Languedoc
BLOCH MB 161 again
A Heinkel He-277 (!!) now that's a rarea avius
The big boat is Latecoere L. 631 Lionel de Marmier
The Air France airliner is a Breguet 763 Provence (one of it's several nom de plume)
the last one is the piston powered version of the NC- 1071, the NC-1070. unofficially known as the 'sacre -merde'

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Although very similar in layout, I think you'll find that the "mother ship" is actually one of the two He 274 prototypes (rather than He 177B/277 prototype). Both 274s were used for high-altitude work and as test-launch platforms by the French after the war.

Both broken up in 1953. If only...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_274

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

#2, the sort of F-84-ish jet is the SNCASO SO 4050 Vulture.
Thanx for the clarification Dan

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Arsenal VB.10




Cutaway showing the second engine...




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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”