What is this plane #23

[AggieDave 6]

This one is sort of obscure (not as obscure as many that have been posted so far), but its also a very interesting plane.

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[Zing 2]

An experimental design for the first generation of tilt-rotor aircraft.

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[mccurley 1]

XC 142A

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[ryoder 1,590]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTV_XC-142

You can't see it in the Wikipedia pic, but your pic shows it has a tail rotor.

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[ZigZagMarquis 9]

Not sure I'd call that one "obscure" Dave... learned about that one in College...

[AggieDave 6]

Its obscure if you didn't study aerospace and/or are younger then 30.

Try this, take the photo to your DZ and show all the freefliers. See if any of them know about the plane.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[grimmie 186]

Most freeflyers can't recognize a Twin Otter...

[rapter 0]

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An experimental design for the first generation of tilt-rotor aircraft.

The X-18 is even older, Even the Nutzies, I mean the Nazi's had a plan for one.

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[Zing 2]

And if you really dig around, you can find photos of the Grumman Goose with tilt-rotor capabilities that was experimented with after the US military started looking at German records from the war.

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[pilotdave 0]

Took this one myself...

Kaman K-16.

You guys might like a website I used to run. Had a weekly aircraft identification quiz as well as an aircraft silhouette identification quiz. I still have all the files... I should put it back up.

Dave

[diablopilot 2]

Do it.

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[mark 107]

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your pic shows it has a tail rotor.

Mounted for pitch control, as opposed to the yaw-control tail roters found on most helicopters.

Mark

[pilotdave 0]

I'll see if I can find a place to put it up (I don't seem to have anywhere I can upload a website right now...). Here's a few to get started... Some of the stuff I have is REALLY obscure. At least one of these shouldn't be TOO bad...
No cheating on the first one... you can find that reg number in google.
Dave

[riggerrob 643]

Photo #1 Commonwealth fighter built in Australia immediately after World War Two to compete with North American's P-51 Mustang. Only prototypes were built

Photo #2 Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer circa 1960.

Photo #3 Pilatus PC-?.
A World War Two vintage ground attack airplane that was converted into a target tug by installing a jeezly big Lycoming turbo-prop engine.

[howardwhite 6]

Geez, I keep looking for actual skydivers in these pictures.
Mine have them (well, with a couple of exceptions.)

HE

[pilotdave 0]

Ok, I'll have to go more obscure next time.

1. Commonwealth Aircraft CA-15
2. Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
3. F+W C-3605
In case you're curious... "This aircraft is based on the EKW C-3603 piston engine fighter bomber developed by the Swiss. They added an Allison T53 turboprop (the same kind that powers the OV-1 Mohawk) to the fuselage resulting in the really long nose. This aircraft first flew in 1968 and a total of 24 aircraft were built. They served primarily as target-tugs for the Swiss Air Force."

Dave