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Footslogger -> Name this plane? (4/26/2014 7:05:02 PM)

Name this Plane if you can...

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Grollub -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 7:10:00 PM)

P-61 Black Widow

Built a model of that one as a kid [:)]



Dili -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 8:36:46 PM)

You have to ask a more difficult questions. This an expert forum :)



Terminus -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 9:38:27 PM)

You're kidding, right? There are no military aircraft that served in the Pacific theatre during World War II that this forum doesn't know.



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JeffroK -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 10:22:34 PM)

KZ VIII Lark, a bit post war isnt it?? (Or is it a KZ III??)



JeffroK -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 10:26:12 PM)

P61A-1-NO Black Widow of 419th Night Fighter Squadron.

Serial 42-5507

The wiki pic says 419th NF Sqn but Joe Baugher's site says 418th Sqn, lost in South Pacific Apr 10, 1945 MACR 13784

Never post a pic from the wikipedia front page.



wdolson -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 10:37:47 PM)

More specifically it's an early production P-61A. The P-61 used the same top turret mechanism as the B-29 and there was a shortage of turrets. Northrop got a handful of them which went into the early P-61 production, but then no more were available, so most P-61A and the early Bs had no top turret. It's obviously an A because all Bs were painted gloss black and this one is OD.

I don't remember the numbers but there were only something like 50 P-61A built with turrets.

The turret initially gave the engineers fits too. The shape caused horrible buffeting when rotated. The Northrop engineers went through a large number of new shapes before hitting on the teardrop shape on the production Black Widow. Until the problem was resolved a lot of early Black Widows had their turret motors disconnected and the turret fixed straight forward.

Bill



Footslogger -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 10:43:25 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Terminus

You're kidding, right? There are no military aircraft that served in the Pacific theatre during World War II that this forum doesn't know.



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Hold on Termy. It says right in the Wiki that they were used in the Pacific and China during WW2

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JeffroK -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 10:45:24 PM)

He means to get a more difficult subject as there are many experts of the PTO lurking here



Terminus -> RE: Name this plane? (4/26/2014 11:02:31 PM)


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ORIGINAL: JeffK

KZ VIII Lark, a bit post war isnt it?? (Or is it a KZ III??)


KZ VII. First flight in November of 46.



geofflambert -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 1:51:35 AM)

Here's one for you footslogger: Name the one on the right, we all know the one on the left is a Fokker DRI

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GaryChildress -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 2:06:56 AM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Here's one for you footslogger: Name the one on the right, we all know the one on the left is a Fokker DRI

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From the markings I'd say it was a British plane. Seeing how the other plane is a Fokker DR1 I'm guessing probably of WW1 vintage. Maybe a Sopwith Pup? [:)]



geofflambert -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 2:31:47 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Gary Childress



From the markings I'd say it was a British plane. Seeing how the other plane is a Fokker DR1 I'm guessing probably of WW1 vintage. Maybe a Sopwith Pup? [:)]


Gary, I'll give you the points but baby camels are not called pups, they're called calves.



GaryChildress -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 2:34:23 AM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert


quote:

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress



From the markings I'd say it was a British plane. Seeing how the other plane is a Fokker DR1 I'm guessing probably of WW1 vintage. Maybe a Sopwith Pup? [:)]


Gary, I'll give you the points but baby camels are not called pups, they're called calves.


Well dang! I was totally off on that one!



JeffroK -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 6:54:52 AM)

A Sopwith Kennel.



LoBaron -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 7:01:30 AM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

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Ahhhh, I do remember that situation. [sm=00000018.gif]

Spotted him too late. Tried some flat scissors to shake him, but the bastard wouldn´t let go. Damn Dr.I, much lower wing load than my old Sopwith Doghouse. Stalled 2 times. Went into a dive, but he noticed immediately. Stupid decision. Rest is history. Am lucky I am here to tell the story.



wdolson -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 7:22:18 AM)

Whatever it is, you can see the dogged determination on the pilot's face. [:D]



tigercub -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 7:26:34 AM)

See what you know about this pic just for fun not Really that hard but it is interesting...

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Encircled -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 7:29:37 AM)

Panzerfausts on a Storch?

No madder than the dedicated "Bicycle Tank Destroyer battalion" the Hitler Youth tried in 1945



Terminus -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 8:29:18 AM)

No Storch, that one. Low-winged monoplane, not high-winged.

It's a Bücker 181C-3.



warspite1 -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 8:33:39 AM)

EDIT: good grief [8|] [:-]



GI Jive -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 1:28:47 PM)

How about this one?


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wdolson -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 7:00:14 PM)

Looks like a Beaufort.

Bill



GI Jive -> RE: Name this plane? (4/27/2014 11:49:50 PM)

Beaufort it is! Thought the head on view would make it tricky. Here she is from the side.

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geofflambert -> RE: Name this plane? (4/28/2014 1:44:26 AM)

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ORIGINAL: tigercub

See what you know about this pic just for fun not Really that hard but it is interesting...

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Isn't that a Faerey Firefly or some such thing? A RN recon plane?

Sorry, I didn't read Terminus' answer.

Looks like a Panzerfaust hanging from the wing, though.



geofflambert -> RE: Name this plane? (4/28/2014 1:48:04 AM)

We talk about war movies alot in this forum, why don't we make this a short thread on "The Blue Max"? What are the feelings out there about that one?



JeffroK -> RE: Name this plane? (4/28/2014 6:39:46 AM)

Its an Australian made Beaufort being booked for speeding by some Yankee MP!



Terminus -> RE: Name this plane? (4/28/2014 7:10:36 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

quote:

ORIGINAL: tigercub

See what you know about this pic just for fun not Really that hard but it is interesting...

[image]local://upfiles/8510/EA506627978D4D009324D8AB5F900038.jpg[/image]


Isn't that a Faerey Firefly or some such thing? A RN recon plane?

Sorry, I didn't read Terminus' answer.

Looks like a Panzerfaust hanging from the wing, though.


It is. The Bü 181C3 was a "tankbuster" variant with four Panzerfausts mounted on the wings.



Erkki -> RE: Name this plane? (4/28/2014 9:54:36 AM)

How about this one? (should be easy)

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VMF 214 -> RE: Name this plane? (4/28/2014 2:29:44 PM)

For all who are interested.

http://www.maam.org/p61.html



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