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Posted by Milairjunkie on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:20 AM

Looks like box art of a direct competitor from the same country of origin has just been posted on the "count to 2000" post.

Outwardly the design was very similar to that of an American aircraft that was built in the hundreds?

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Posted by PhilB on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:11 AM

Reggiane RE 2000 Falco 1

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Posted by Milairjunkie on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:01 AM

Indeed, the Re.2000 - over to you.

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Posted by PhilB on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:20 AM

Held off that one for a while hoping to give someone else a go.

OK,  I'm looking for an individual aircraft here.  It held two firsts and a second - the second hardly being something to boast about but, for half of those involved, not as devastating as for those involved in that particular first which was the result of a similar type of problem with another of almost the same type.

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Posted by PhilB on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:34 AM

The specific aircraft I'm looking for was one of a very short run of a subtype for a very specific customer and purpose.  The aircraft itself was never put to its defined use and the subtype was made redundant by a development of the mainstream types engines.

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Posted by PhilB on Friday, March 29, 2013 9:07 AM

The "second" this aircraft held, along with the similar problem that had been a "first" of that type  helped decide certain countries authorities to make an addition to the design and then the manufacturer to make a significant and very visible change to all versions of the type.

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Posted by PhilB on Saturday, March 30, 2013 2:07 PM

Whilst the individual aircraft I'm looking for didn't make it, the others of its batch eventually ceased to be plain

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Posted by PhilB on Monday, April 1, 2013 4:00 AM

As there are no takers and I have to go to the UK due to a family illness, I'm going to close this and open the field to someone else to ask a question.

I was looking for N7071, being the first of only five B707-227s built, being Braniff's first B707 ordered and only the second B707 to crash, during pre-handover training  on 19 October 1959, just two months and four days after the first 707 crash, an American Airlines B707.  Thus the aircraft was never used for its intended purpose.  Four of the eight on board the Braniff aircraft survived, none of the five on board the American aircraft did.  

Both accidents were due to handling problems and it was this that led some authorities, notably the UK to insist on the addition of a ventral fin, something the US authorities came to require.  Boeing then increased the height of the tail fin on new aircraft and retrofitted them on earlier builds but the ventral fin was kept on pure jet 707s.  On later 707s and 720s there was a shorter ventral fin to prevent over rotation on take off and only the later advanced 300B and C series had no ventral fin.

The 200srs with the JT4A engine was unique to Braniff who needed extra power for take off at some airports in South America, the JT4A being made redundant by the JT3D fan jet fitted to all 320B and C models which soon followed.

The surviving Braniff aircraft all received the pastel shade colour schemes thus, in the terminology of Braniff's marketing of the time, they ceased to be plain planes.

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Posted by PhilB on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:42 PM

As no-one has picked up on this thread since I last posted, here's an easy one to try to tempt some interest..

This type was a famous failure.  Though of great passenger carrying capacity it never entered service, of three built only one flew which participated at its home country's leading airshow more than once but was unable to land!

Many plans were made to convert both the power plants and the role of the aircraft, all came to nought.

The three aircraft survived long enough to be purchased by a company in another country for a specific conversion but that also failed for a very specific reason and that company eventually converted another type for the role envisaged.

All three aircraft were eventually scrapped after an what was a useless life of around 15 years.

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Posted by PhilB on Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:26 AM

This aircraft had more engines than were evident.

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Posted by Allen109 on Friday, June 21, 2013 6:08 PM

Didn't these quizes used to have a photo requirement?

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Posted by Geezer on Friday, July 19, 2013 12:56 PM

 How about we start a new one. Should be quite easy, but I blurred some markings.

 

 

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Posted by ddp59 on Friday, July 19, 2013 9:09 PM

Douglas DC-4 Super Mainliner  mrbill2.smugmug.com/.../817578754_B6RhKp9

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Posted by Geezer on Monday, July 22, 2013 7:35 AM

Actually, the DC4E - but close enough. over toy ddp59.

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Posted by ddp59 on Monday, July 22, 2013 8:43 AM

what aircraft looks similar to that but by different company?

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Posted by subfixer on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 12:32 PM

Are you referring to the Lockheed Constellation?

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Posted by ddp59 on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:27 PM

yes

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Posted by PhilB on Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:41 AM

Just to close off my unfinished (due to lack of interest) question from April, the answer was the Saunders Roe Princess.

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Posted by subfixer on Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:16 AM

What is the aircraft behind Steve Canyon?

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Posted by Sparrowhyperion on Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:28 AM

C119

In the Hangar: 1/48 Hobby Boss F/A-18D RAAF Hornet,

On the Tarmac:  F4U-1D RNZAF Corsair 1/48 Scale.

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Posted by subfixer on Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:08 PM

Close, but no cee-gar!

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Posted by ddp59 on Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:19 PM
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Posted by subfixer on Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:48 PM

yes

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Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:35 PM

what are the 2 names for the 2 versions of the chinese stealth fighter?

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Posted by subfixer on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:12 AM

bump

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Posted by FlyItLikeYouStoleIt on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:10 PM

J-31 is called the GyrEagle or Falcon Eagle

J-20 has been referred to as the Mighty Dragon and Star Destroyer

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Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:34 PM

your turn.

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Posted by FlyItLikeYouStoleIt on Monday, August 19, 2013 7:49 AM

 Physical differences in what structural component are represented by the letter at the end of Supermarine Spitfire variant names (Mk Va, Mk Vb, etc...)?

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Posted by ddp59 on Monday, August 19, 2013 11:58 AM

the wings. the mk va used a type a wing, the vb used the b wing & the vc introduced the universal wing.

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Posted by FlyItLikeYouStoleIt on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:12 PM

Correct! The A wing was all machine guns, the B was a combo of guns and cannon, and the C was a hybrid

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