Mystery aircraft quiz.

It looks like my first attempt at a 4 engine Airfix kit as a kid,the wings went soggy like that too.

[yak2]

Hairy wins the mystery prize. The aircraft was a Chinese amphibian bomber. Think they only built a few as time passed it by. I agree with Dave. It has a Coronado look about it. Maybe they needed to use larger diameter bamboo for the wing spars. It would have been an impressive gadget to see in action.

Fletcher FBT-2

[Dave Homewood]

Is that photo taken overseas or in NZ Marcus?

Your cryptic clue was more of a red herring,I thought the NZ connection was John Thorp,as the back end of the plane looks like a Thorp design,I spent hours looking up every obscure plane he ever designed......to no avail,then I thought it looked a bit like a Vought Kingfisher so I went down that road plus every other US manufacturer I could think of,then about midnight a little light came on and I remembered Fletcher had built a few oddball aircraft around the war years and I followed that line until I came to the FBT-2.Although it has the hallmarks of a Thorp/Fletcher design I can't see he was involved with Fletcher until the 1950's.


So heres another topdresser......



The Fletcher photo was taken in the US Dave,it was the only one built,the only Fletcher design to come here are the FU-24's.
I dont think Fletchers made much out of aircraft,they made more out of aircraft drop tanks and the like through the war(s) years.

[Dave Homewood]

Was it an accepted rule across the industry that all topdressers must be designed to be inherantly ugly? Apart from the original Avengers there has not been a decent looking topdresser ever, and even the TBF-1C's looked odd with their turrets removed.

[stu]

Feb 23, 2010 11:24:42 GMT 12 yak2 said:

Supermarine Nighthawk. Anti Zeppelin fighter. Poetry in motion
Too easy

Bugger ;D

[yak2]

Don't worry Stu. I think I left the links attached with my mystery pic, and it was a no brainer. Another senior moment
The Nighthawk may have been a Supermarine product, but I don't think RJ Mitchell had much to do with it.

Maybe that other one was a bit too obscure and ugly,heres a more modern cropduster that proves that not all ag planes are hideously repulsive creations Dave.. ;D

[Naki]

So what was the last one??? Looked a bit like a Hindustan Basant with a tri-gear.

The one above is the Scaled Composite Model 120 Predator

[corsair67]

At first I thought the second one was a Norman Fieldmaster, but after looking at some images of the Fieldmaster on Google, I soon realised that it wasn't.

What was the first image of, Pool Guy?

The first one is an Indian HAL prototype ag aircraft before the Basant.
ATAC Predator 480 is the Rutan design,I think the wing fell off or similar.

[Naki]

Pictures a bit small ...but hopefully big enough to guess what this aircraft is.........

[ams888]

Is it some version of the Zodiac light aircraft?

[Naki]

Nope ...its European..designed to tow gliders