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Told you it was easy... but if I do more it will get harder much much harder...

Edited by Slartibartfast

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Let's wait and see if anyone else finds it, too be honest I don't think it's that well known, even though to me it's as iconic as Ader's planes.

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Well, since there's no other taker for Slarti's bird, it was a Westland Pterodactyl I :big_boss:

 

Fates, maybe a dedicated cartography/artillery spotting plane prototype, mid 30's to early 40's, no idea concerning the country of origin though...

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Here's another Stumper.

 

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Easy, that's the Fugly Glasshouse. You can tell just by LOOKING at it.

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Correct Focke Wulf 187 Falke

 

Here two pictures of this beauty on flight.

 

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Fast and agile as a single seat fighter. Much better than the Me-110.

This bird in big numbers would perhaps have changed the Battle of Brittain.

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Yeah, I've got that book too! :smile:

 

 

Nope!

 

Hmm... is it too difficult?

The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft :D

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The course of many battles and wars would have been different if all weapons were picked on their own merits and without politics interfering.

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That's one ugly toad from that angle... dare I say it's a Kalinin K-11 ? (not 100% sure on the number, but the one with the ridiculous orange/yellow feathers paint scheme)

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That's one ugly toad from that angle... dare I say it's a Kalinin K-11 ? (not 100% sure on the number, but the one with the ridiculous orange/yellow feathers paint scheme)

 

 

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That's weird... I could have sworn it was an italian design (Savoia-Marchetti 9? can't remember which) but I see it sports german markings... Now I'm confused.

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Nah, the Me-109Z had the other canopy faired (maybe adding a fuel tank, can't remember), here it's absent, and the engine are protruding a lot more than on other Me-109, besides, the canopy is wrong, looks a lot like an Il-2...

 

Some kind of obscure captured russian prototype re-engined with german engines ??

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