Exotic Aircraft Identification Thread

Hidden | 11/30/2010 | Self

[ccmay]

Just for fun, how about we stump each other with exotic or unusual airplane photos. Upload to Tinypic so no one can cheat by looking at the image source.

I'll go first. What is this aircraft?

[Stonewall Jackson]

Did you know that there were forty pilots during WW2 who made ace from the cockpit of a Buffalo?

Thirty-six of these individuals were pilots in the Finnish Air Force, with one pilot achieving 39 kills and another bagged 34. The other four pilots included one New Zealander and three Australians.

[Army Air Corps]

Spot on. A greatly overlooked bird.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Here's another often overlooked bird; the P-61 Black Widow. One of my favorite aircraft of the Second World War, only 742 of these night fighters were built and only four are known to exist (although China claims to have two in storage in addition to the one they have on display in Beijing and are offering to sell them for $2million each).

[Army Air Corps]

The Black Widow was a mean lookin’ bird (in a very cool way).

[Stonewall Jackson]

If I happen to win the Powerball on Saturday, I am going to have to check and see if the Chinese are serious about having a couple of these birds in storage. ;-)

[Army Air Corps]

Now, that is an excellent use of Lotto winnings! :-)

[Stonewall Jackson]

There is a guy here in E-Town, Ky who is just about finished restoring a Sopwith Camel.

He'd had it in flying condition a few years ago, but a severe ice storm back in Dec. 2004 collapsed the hangar on it, causing severe damage. I wanted to cry when I heard about it.

This is what two feet of snow, on top of a half inch of ice will do to a flat-roofed aircraft hangar.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Gloster-Napier IV-B

Lots of those planes looked remarkably alike, and all of them good.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Well done.

[Army Air Corps]

Man, that makes me wanna cry. From the time that I was a young lad, I have wanted to try my hand at recreating some early aircraft. I thought that a replica Bleriot XI would be cool, for starters.

[ccmay]

Zerbe is correct again.

I confess that I am now reduced to trolling the Internet in search of very old and rare aircraft I have never heard of in order to provide you with a challenge commensurate with your abilities. I remember reading about the “Flying Venetian Blind” and that was what Google came up with.

[mad_as_he$$]

Skyraiders.

[Army Air Corps]

Zerbe had a penchant for multiwing aircraft. In fact, I think he was obsessed with packing as many wings into a design as possible.

[ccmay]

Nope. See #216. We (or actually tanknetter and Army Air Corps) are playing this game at a much higher level than mere Skyraiders.

[6ppc]

During the 50’s and 60’s when I was growing up, my Father worked at Eglin AFB

During the mid 60's my family had a cottage on the beach in Destin. We were under the approach path to Eglin and several times each day I would see planes fly over, fairly low most of the time. The B-58's and B-52's were especially awesome. I built models of all of them.

[QualityMan]

brewster buffalo?

[QualityMan]

FW 189 Uhu?

[QualityMan]

B-71 Fortress Flying

[Mashood]

Brewster Buffalo?

[tanknetter]

Nope. See #216. We (or actually tanknetter and Army Air Corps) are playing this game at a much higher level than mere Skyraiders.

Something else about that echelon of Fireballs ... it looks like a number of them (certainly the #2 aircraft in formation) have their props feathered and are flying on jet power alone.