What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:15 pm
Found via a weird link with no names?
Re: What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:20 pm
XV-5? Man it's ugly
Re: What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:43 pm
That was fast!....tks. And yes it is ugly.
Just ventured to find obscured AC pics...
Here is another one
Just ventured to find obscured AC pics...
Here is another one
Re: What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:48 pm
Michel Lemieux wrote:Found via a weird link with no names?
I think its cute...
Needs bigger wheels though...
Phil
Re: What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:51 pm
How about this?
What engines are those?
What engines are those?
Re: What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:53 pm
I think its cute...
Needs bigger wheels though...
Phil
No wheels needed...just like a heli they are so ugly earth naturaly repels them......Only needed to move them around once back on terra firma.
Re: What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:56 pm
Spot on GRNDP51! Tks again.
Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aBOmBzcgPE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_XV-5_Vertifan
Odd...thinking I knew most of the VTOL NA history!
And now I get the weird nose doors!
Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aBOmBzcgPE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_XV-5_Vertifan
Odd...thinking I knew most of the VTOL NA history!
And now I get the weird nose doors!
Re: What is this!
Thu Mar 07, 2019 7:47 pm
Michel Lemieux wrote:How about this?
What engines are those?
On the left, a Griffon. Probably from a Firefly.
On the right a Merlin from maybe a Whitley
Re: What is this!
Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:21 am
Michel - is that a BT-13/SNV?
Re: What is this!
Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:41 am
mexchiwa
No clue am not in expert on the BT-13 but the cowl and windshield seem off to me.
is that a BT-13/SNV?
No clue am not in expert on the BT-13 but the cowl and windshield seem off to me.
Re: What is this!
Fri Mar 08, 2019 10:02 am
one of the famous soplata collection there that vibrator
Re: What is this!
Fri Mar 08, 2019 11:17 am
Michel Lemieux wrote:mexchiwais that a BT-13/SNV?
No clue am not in expert on the BT-13 but the cowl and windshield seem off to me.
Just checked and found a photo from the same angle...the windscreen matched.
Re: What is this!
Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:38 pm
Michel Lemieux wrote:How about this?
What engines are those?
The engine on the left is a Packard Merlin V-1650-7 coming from P-51D 44-13663 that was recovered in 1981 by association Ailes Anciennes in France.
The wreck was displayed for a few years at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le bourget airport, before being given back to our association. The engine was loaned/donated in 1991 or 1991 and was on display in a museum near Utah Beach, and is probably still there. The rest of the wreck left for England in August 1997.
Laurent
Re: What is this!
Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:50 pm
Thanks Laurent.
Happy to be corrected
Andy
Happy to be corrected
Andy
Re: What is this!
Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:06 pm
dollar65 wrote:
The engine on the left is a Packard Merlin V-1650-7 coming from P-51D 44-13663 that was recovered in 1981 by association Ailes Anciennes in France.
The wreck was displayed for a few years at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le bourget airport, before being given back to our association. The engine was loaned/donated in 1991 or 1991 and was on display in a museum near Utah Beach, and is probably still there. The rest of the wreck left for England in August 1997.
Laurent
The a/c you referenced is listed as 44-13954.
http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/su ... l/44-13954
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p51regis ... 13954.html