Name that plane

Hello TA152,

don't worry mate I had a good laugh , I was just imagining how you were placing full of confidence that "killer picture" on your mind and mistakingly placed another one.

Indeed as for my part, I would have had no chance to ident that "DP2 Killer Photo"

Okay, so how about this forgotten Wonderweapon?

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Regards
Kruska

 

With the upward turned wings and no landing gear I would say the plane fits into the bomb bay of a bomber and gets dropped. Other than that I have not idea. It almost looks like a toy at an amusement park ride.

 

Hello TA 152,

it's not German, not French, not British not Western European at all.

Regards
Kruska

 

Soviet transonic areodynamic test aircraft. The LL, towed to altitude then released firing it's engine. Three versions, LL1-straight wing, LL2-conventional swept wing, and LL3-forward swept wing.

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Take care,
Salty

 

Hello SaltyShellback,

good one, yes it is the Tsybin LL3 , and was amongst Russia's answer to the Bell X-1. It was towed to height by a TU-2 bomber, flew under rocket power for 8-10 seconds and landed as the Me163 did.

over to you.

Regards
Kruska

 

Alrighty then, here we go. You get a clear photo but, two questions also.
1. It was the first aircraft to carry what?
2. What famous book was it in and for what?

Come on, I have to make it interesting. You guys figure this stuff out pretty fast.

Take care,
Salty

 

Googling for supersonic propellers tuns up the XF-84H Thunderscreech.
The XF-84H was the first aircraft to carry a ram air turbine. In the event of failure of the engine, it would automatically swing out into the airstream to provide hydraulic and electrical power.
Acording to Wiki it flew a total of 12 test flights. One test pilot flew in it once and refused to ever fly in it again. Test pilot Hank Baird took the craft up 11 times with 10 of these flights ending in forced landings. That's quite a record!
Don't know about the book .....

 

It was also said that being near the aircraft on the ground could induce nausia and vomiting in people due to the sound being given off by the prop.

 

OK, its been a while, here's a quickie:

Who built it and why???

 

Short SB4 Sherpa, used to test rotating wingtips as controls, vice the conventional aileron (inspired by birds). I remember studying this aircraft while in college.

 

On target as usual, Lippert! Over to you! (Where have you been???}

 

You would think the staff at Short Brothers could come up with some different names.

 

Short Skyvan? ugly bugger but a lot of pilots and AF's truly like it.

I think the picture shows a 330

Regards
Kruska

 

I think it is also listed as a Sherpa as well as a Skyvan.
Anyway that was just an observation on my part and not a question.

 

That's me - always on target Been ultra busy of late - sun up to sun down.

Here's my submission.

 

Ahhhh. Nanchang Q-5 "Fantan" ?

I just watched two of them about 3-4 days ago flying low level manouvers.

Regards
Kruska

 

Indeed! I had forgotten we had a man in China! I should have chosen more wisely perhaps.

Over to you.

 

thanks

Please exact description - since AFAIK only the Marines have,em

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Kruska

 

I think that's the UH1Y Venom

Bell Gets $137.2M for UH-1Y Venom LRIP

24-Jul-2006 07:53 EDT









Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. in Fort Worth, TX received a $137.4 million firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive fee contract for the fiscal year 2006 low rate initial production (LRIP) lot III procurement of 7 UH-1Y aircraft, 1 UH-1Y full flight simulator, and 4 composite maintenance trainers (Phase I) under the H-1 upgrade program. Work will be performed in Hurst, TX (80%), and Amarillo, TX (20%), and is expected to be complete in September 2008. This contract was not competitively procured by the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD (N00019-06-C-0086).
As DID has noted, the H-1 upgrade program to remanufacture 100 of the Marines’ old UH-1N Hueys and 180 of its AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters into advanced UH-1Y Venoms and AH-1Z Vipers with strong parts commonality has run into some problems. In May 2005, the Navy warned Bell that the H-1 program was in serious jeopardy because the Texas-based company has been failing to meet its needs, reserved the option of killing the program, and demanded “fundamental changes.”

 

oooooohhh, actually I wanted Lippert to "sweat" it out .

Great research Falcon Jun, over to you

Regards
Kruska