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AggieDave

What is this plane #23

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

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

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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

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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.

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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

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