Guess the aircraft!

[1993matias]

Hi!

I though we needed some more 'intelligent' threads (hint at counting ), so this is a great excuse for some thinking

A simple game:
I post a picture of a plane (or a part). You try to guess it. The first to guess right gets to post the next picture. Happy guessing!



Scoreboard
77 - 1993matias
65 - Virgin Serbia
37 - Anzatax
23 - Nosy
15 - norge
13 - Air Nostrum
8 - Med Air
8 - pf94
7 - Johnny29683
7 - Pocichuuu
4 - A380YURY
4 - Thunderstruck
3 - Calebrw
3 - OO-SCZ
2 - artemivanov
2 - bolli
2 - davecummings
2 - Shawa
2 - Vamerica
1 - AMZPH
1 - area51
1 - jameswhyhk
1 - mark4051997
1 - Nipoel123
1 - phat01
1 - r20m
1 - rmt1982
1 - sla31
1 - StephenM
1 - Zach21GF

Last edit on May 29th, page 146

[Virgin Serbia]

Nord N262/Mohawk 298 

[1993matias]

Correct

How did you know?

[Virgin Serbia]

Correct

How did you know?

"Alverdens trafikfly i farver, Politikens Forlag - Anno 1967" (On loan from a library since 1967 )

Next: (Registration edited out, you would have been able to google it)

[1993matias]

I have no idea. No idea at all. 50's? 60's?

[DAirways]

SAAB 340?

[1993matias]

No, I don't think so; it has (had) four engines, two on each wing. You can see the things sticking out of the leading edge.

The windows are also triangular, like on the Caravelle. Maybe it's from the 60's? Or even 70's?

[Virgin Serbia]

SAAB 340?

No. It could only carry slight less than half the number of passengers of a SAAB 340.

I have no idea. No idea at all. 50's? 60's?

Correct, designed in the late 50s, first flight in the early 60s.

No, I don't think so; it has (had) four engines, two on each wing. You can see the things sticking out of the leading edge.

Correct

The windows are also triangular, like on the Caravelle. Maybe it's from the 60's? Or even 70's?

The designer was a close friend with Marcel Dassualt, who played an important role in the Caravelle. They went to the same aviation school, and cooperated on a number of designs, which is why they share many similarities...
Mikhail Gurevich (co-founder of MiG) and Henry Coanda were also friends and schoolmates of the designer of this plane.

[1993matias]

I got it! Weeee! It's the Potez 840!

Let's have a history class:

Henry Potez attended Supaero (the aviation school in france) in 1911 together with Henry Coanda and Raul Badin. In 1919 he founded Aviations Potez and bought Allesandro Azani in 1923. Potez built small passenger aircraft during the mid-war years, together with some reconnaissance biplanes.

In 1933 the French aviation industry was nationalized and Potez' factories were handed over to SNCASE. After World War II, Henry Potez re-established the company as Société des Avions et Moteurs Henry Potez. Again, it produced small passenger airplanes, but did never get its old reputation back. When the last aircraft failed to sell (Potez 840), he closed the company. Sud-Aviation bought the remains in 1967.

I'll have the next aircraft up soon. You want an easy one, or a hard one?

PS: I'll just leave the proof here Link

[1993matias]

[Virgin Serbia]

An experimental single-tail variant of the Dassault MD-315 Flamant, known as the MD-316 It was Dassault's final piston powered aircraft...

[Virgin Serbia]

Next one should be easy

[Med Air]

Haha, it's an Antonov A-40.

At the start of the war the Russians wanted a way of getting tanks onto the battlefield quickly, so they came up with the tank/glider hybrid. However the vision of gracefully gliding a tank into war never quite happened and so the project was cancelled in 1942.

[Virgin Serbia]

Correct!

[Med Air]

I hope this next picture isn't too hard, I fear I made it impossible... but kudos to whoever can guess it.



Good luck!