Name that plane

You missed it by one letter, but it's Christmas so I will let it slide.
Platt LePage XR-1A

Over to you sir.

 

Well, 'tis the season for giving...

What is this aircraft, and what did it prove?

 

Well, 'tis the season for giving...

What is this aircraft, and what did it prove?

 

It proved the age old rc modeller saying: "Given a sufficienlty powerful engine, even a rock will fly"

 

Ahahaha

 

A NASA AD-1

"
The Ames-Dryden-1 (AD-1) aircraft was designed to investigate the concept of an oblique (pivoting) wing. The wing could be rotated on its center pivot, so that it could be set at its most efficient angle for the speed at which the aircraft was flying.
It was designed as a low-cost/low-speed research aircraft to test a pivot wing design. The AD-1 took off with its wing positioned at a right angle with the fuselage. Once in the air, the wing would rotate on its pivot point on the fuselage until it formed a 60 degree angle. The goal was to design a high-speed transport with low drag. The AD-1 made a total of 79 flights, but adverse handling at sharp sweep angles made the approach less attractive.
NASA Ames Research Center Aeronautical Engineer Robert T. Jones conceived the idea of an oblique wing. His wind tunnel studies at Ames (Moffett Field, CA) indicated that an oblique wing design on a supersonic transport might achieve twice the fuel economy of an aircraft with conventional wings. The oblique wing on the AD-1 pivoted about the fuselage, remaining perpendicular to it during slow flight and rotating to angles of up to 60 degrees as aircraft speed increased. Analytical and wind tunnel studies that Jones conducted at Ames indicated that a transport-sized oblique-wing aircraft flying at speeds of up to Mach 1.4 (1.4 times the speed of sound) would have substantially better aerodynamic performance than aircraft with conventional wings."

 

Well done! It's all yours.

 

Roger. Lip! Her's a Christmas Eve treat...

 

I was looking up Reggiane aircraft and found this, which is much more interesting. Will have to browse some more on the subject.

 

The Eye-talians do know how to assemble their fuselages!

 

How about alittle hint ? Even the "great" TA Gardner seems to be speechless.

 

OK. Maybe T.A. Gardner is still celebrating Christmas...

Anyway, this aircraft is made of wood and is a modified airframe from another aircraft and has had swept wings added.

Za was looking in the right country....and all this happened almost a decade post-WW2.

The plane was referred to as the "Archer".

 

Aha! It's all here!

In short, an Ambrosini Sagittario!

I wouldn't find without the tip, or a lot of time which I don't have. Somebody please put in another one for me.

And watch this! http://www.targeta.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vigna_di_valle.htm

 

Za is spot on! So anyone with an orphan mystery plane step right up and post!

 

The Germans were not the only one with big guns.

 

Haha, they didn't just use these on the Stukas now, did they?

 

Here ya go

 

Hang on, TA152...did you want folks to determine the a/c with the "big gun" or was that a comment?

Likewise, JCF: I think your plane is an advanced optically stealth fighter!

Interesting...now the attachment shows up!

 

Good I was hoping it would .

 

Not for me, the "big gun" shows normally but the "advanced stealth fighters" confuse my browser into thinking it must downoad the bmp image to open it with paint instead of viewing it inside the browser itself (must be part of the stealth effect ).
Which is the active quiz? there is a big MOTH sign on one of the hangars behind the biplanes so I my first guess would be a De Havilland Tiger Moth or one of it's stablemates, the picture looks like a mix of single and twin seaters.