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Brady -> Name This...(316) (2/22/2005 10:10:47 PM)
??? [img]http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_316.JPG[/img]

freeboy -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/22/2005 10:15:44 PM)
Imperial Bicycle a1e

tsimmonds -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/22/2005 10:22:17 PM)
I don't know a/c at all, but I'll betcha that's every IJs fave POS, the Nate (fixed landing gear, 2 MG).

11Bravo -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/22/2005 10:24:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: freeboy Imperial Bicycle a1e Nope, its an a1f. The a1e had square tires.

rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/22/2005 10:38:03 PM)
quote: The a1e had square tires. Square tires must have made it rough on the taxiway![:'(]

ChezDaJez -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 1:15:51 AM)
A5M Claude. The Nate had a 2-bladed prop. Val was a poss but no speed brakes and too small. Chez

RUPD3658 -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 2:02:10 AM)
I agree. Fixed landing gear would indicate Claude. Love the tie town cables in a grass field. Must really be a light plane. What is that in the background? I know it isn't one but the engine cowling looks like a P-47.

ChezDaJez -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 2:17:56 AM)
That's what I thought at first too. But for it to be a P-47 would put this photo later in the war after the Claude had been removed from service and this would have to be a captured Claude. I think its another Claude in the background that has a canvas tarp over the fuselage. That was fairly standard practice to cover the cockpit and cowl areas to protect the glass from the sun. As far as the tie downs go, it doesn't take much wind to swing the tail around on a tail-dragger aircraft and downdrafts from thunderstorms can blow them over easily. I once saw a P-3 (105,000lbs with ramp load) in Okinawa spun 90 degrees on the ramp during a weak typhoon and it had a 10-point tie down!!! The fact that they are being used though tells me they are in an area where they didn't expect much combat. Chez

RUPD3658 -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 3:13:42 AM)
Look at the landing gear of the rear plane. The wheel looks like it is on the inside of the gear rather than in the center and it looks retractible so I don't think it is another Claude. An Oscar maybe?

ChezDaJez -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 3:47:43 AM)
quote: it looks retractible so I don't think it is another Claude. Now that I look at it again, I think you're right, it is retractible. Could be an Oscar, not sure though. Chez

Skyros -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 5:25:30 AM)
Looks like Bradys avatar!

tsimmonds -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 5:28:00 AM)
nope, MGs in the cowl, not the wing

RUPD3658 -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/23/2005 5:37:45 AM)
Frame is narrower also. The landing gear is too close together to be a Val.

Brady -> RE: Name This...(316) (2/24/2005 7:39:56 AM)
A5M(4), it is:) ....................... Both Val, and A5M4, had cowel MG's.

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