name that plane

[Amazon 7]

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OK how about this beastie

Budd Conestoga. Stainless skin.

Yup kinda like a 1940's DeLorean

[pchapman 279]

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I'll play also......

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Yes!
That's that East German jetliner developed in Dresden, Germany, my mom's home town. The VEB 152 or Baade 152, although official names vary. From 1958 only 3 flew, 1 crashed, and the overall program was generally unsuccessful so they gave up on creating an East German heavy aircraft industry.

Edit: already answered by the time I typed it up & submitted it

[airgord 1]

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OK how about this beastie

Budd Conestoga. Stainless skin.

Yup kinda like a 1940's DeLorean

Pima Air Museum in Tucson has most of one there.

[pchapman 279]

Kallend's plane.jpg:

Handley Page Heyford.

... or something very close.

[Amazon 7]

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OK how about this beastie

Budd Conestoga. Stainless skin.

Yup kinda like a 1940's DeLorean

Pima Air Museum in Tucson has most of one there.

I know

That is what me think of that gawd awful thing... its almost as fugly as a plane we flew on in Europe when I was a kid and then they brought one of the fugly things to the WFFC about 5 years ago.

[pchapman 279]

A couple to try. Obscure stuff but the company is isn't terribly so.

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Good story about it: Test pilot heads out for a high speed dive test. Telegram arrives at airfield. 'Revised calculations show that the structure isn't strong enough. Stop testing!' Too late, pilot has taken off, no radios in those days. Engineers were right. Wing structure fails in dive test. Pilot tries to bail out, newfangled enclosed cockpit canopy jams, pilot manages to get out through smaller side entrance hatch. He survives to have a long life as a pilot & aviation historian. Fate!


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Another design that went nowhere.

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Kallend's plane.jpg:

Handley Page Heyford.

... or something very close.

Yep.. Ugly bastard, isn't it.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[Zep 0]

Get all three right and you'll get a free trip to East Dulwich

Plane
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Gone fishing

[riggerrob 643]

United States Air Force, B-24 Liberator bomber. Four engines.
It was the most widely produced 4-engine bomber, however, most were scrapped at the end of World War 2. Liberators served in all the theatres that Americans fought in. Their long range also played a major role in closing the mid-Atlantic gap, vastly reducing damage done by U-boats to cargo ships transporting goods from North America to Europe.
Liberators remained in service - with the Indian Air Force until the 1960s. Only a handful asre still flying in the USA.

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United States Air Force, B-24 Liberator bomber. Four engines.
It was the most widely produced 4-engine bomber, however, most were scrapped at the end of World War 2. Liberators served in all the theatres that Americans fought in. Their long range also played a major role in closing the mid-Atlantic gap, vastly reducing damage done by U-boats to cargo ships transporting goods from North America to Europe.
Liberators remained in service - with the Indian Air Force until the 1960s. Only a handful asre still flying in the USA.

I was thinking he meant what boogie and what year

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Kallend's plane.jpg:

Handley Page Heyford.

... or something very close.

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British Royal Air Force) bomber built in the 1930s.
It is unique because bombs are carried in the (thick) lower wing root.
This fabric-covered bomber was obsolete by the start of the Second World War.
It was probably the last twin-engined, biplane bomber to serve in the Royal Air Force.

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OK how about this beastie

Budd Conestoga. Stainless skin.

Yup kinda like a 1940's DeLorean

Pima Air Museum in Tucson has most of one there.

I know

That is what me think of that gawd awful thing... its almost as fugly as a plane we flew on in Europe when I was a kid and then they brought one of the fugly things to the WFFC about 5 years ago.

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Sorry,
but you are either thinking of a Carvair or C-123.

Carvair is a Douglas DC-4 (or DC-6 or DC-7) modified for cargo carrying with a raised flight deck.

C-123 is the same vintage (1950s) as the Budd Conestoga, but was built by the hundreds for the United States Air Force. A few American skydivers were lucky enough to jump from C-123 during the 1990s. A handful of C-123s are still hauling cargo around the USA and Strong Enterprises occasionally hires an Arizona-based C-123 for heavy drop tests.

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I'll play.

Douglas A-20 Havoc.....in RAF they were called Boston

SmugMug

[akjmpplt 0]

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Get all three right and you'll get a free trip to East Dulwich

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B-24J NX224J (This thing was a blast to fly)
Quincy
Prior to '02

SmugMug

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but you are either thinking of a Carvair or C-123.

Carvair is a Douglas DC-4 (or DC-6 or DC-7) modified for cargo carrying with a raised flight deck.

C-123 is the same vintage (1950s) as the Budd Conestoga, but was built by the hundreds for the United States Air Force

I was referring to the Carvair.. it has that same general airframe look with the raised flight deck. Both the Carvair and the Conestoga... are just fugly. I know one of them made an appearance at WFFC. I got to fly on one when I was a kid... we visited my mothers sister in the 60's and we flew on one to get over to the low countries from the UK where my uncle was stationed for a car tour on the continent.

I REALLLLY know what a C-123 is.. I have jumped from a couple... they were still all over the freakin place when I was active duty.

[Zep 0]

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Get all three right and you'll get a free trip to East Dulwich

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B-24J NX224J (This thing was a blast to fly)
Quincy
Prior to '02

It was a blast to jump as well, expensive but worth it.

Gone fishing

[Beerlight 0]

Nice write-up

[SkydiveJack 1]

OK, my turn.

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Here is a mystery plane for you.

Any good guessers for the experimental aircraft catagory???

Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!

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Here is a mystery plane for you.

Any good guessers for the experimental aircraft catagory???

No idea what it's officailly called, but being that short-coupled as a tail-dragger I can think of several things it probably got called.

SmugMug

[squirrel 0]

how about this one? (thats me flying)

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how about this one? (thats me flying)

Flying Squirrel?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[riggerrob 643]

That is a (British) Royal Air Force, AW.52G, experimental flying wing glider.
The tail-less glider was built by Armstrong-Whitworth in 1946.

It was flown a few times, but was retired once they collected enough data -primarily about stability and control.
It was one of the tail-less designs that contributed to the V-series bombers.