No, Vostok doesn’t count.
The “vegetables” were a permanent fixture & originated from Germany (in a way)?
Me-262…the fixture inside the jet engine tailpipes was known as the “zweibel”, or “onion”.
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It’s not what I was thinking about, but it fits the bill better than the one I had - so over to you.
I was thinking about Küchemann Carrots / Whitcomb bodies as fitted to some excess on the H.P. Victor, Convair 990 & Tu-95. I thought that the Victor was the first production aircraft to use these, but it seems that the Tu-16 had them before.
Well, its been over a month, So ill throw something up.
This radial engined aircraft was frequently modified to appear as another aircraft in alot of movies. Any military pilot over the age of 50 is likley to have flown this aircraft.
Whats the aircraft (nice and easy)
Some synchronization (as why do propellers “spin” backwards when being filmed)?
North American’s Texan
My second guess would be the Link Trainer, although it’s not an aircraft and doesn’t always have a radial engine, and while there’s been quite a few in the “movies”, they usually are what they are.
My father in law, who was a military pilot, never flew a T-6 but he did fly a lot of Link jobs.
It came in handy a number of times when he took various aircraft up for “magneto tests”.
The T-6 is right, over to you bondo.
Its was frequently modified to look like a zero in some of the older movies.
!(http://www.air-and-space.com/20051022 Edwards/DSC_1615 Harvard Mk IV N7754 Zero left side taxiing m.jpg)
The infamous tora tora tora zeroes.
SNJ/T-6
Bondo was right with the Texan.
A commercial tri-jet airliner with an unusual nose landing gear arrangement, from the 60’s,
It started as a de Havilland project for BEA. Other companies became involved and it was to be built by Airco but the British Government intervened and de Havilland became part of Hawker Siddeley, other members of Airco became part of BAC so the grouping was broken up and the aircraft became an HS project.
By the time of the first flight in January 1962 the projected RR Medway engines had been dropped, BEA had changed its mind and downgraded its requirements to the detriment of the type and Boeing’s engineers had been invited to Hatfield where they were shown the Medway powered plans, were impressed, and went away and built the B727.
The nose wheel was offset to the left and retracted sideways to allow room for avionics connected with the blind landing equipment for which the type was the world leader, making the first truly blind landing of any airliner in a 1965 trial and became the first to do so in commercial service in 1966.
The type:
At the time of development: DH121 Trident
At the time of first BEA order: Airco121 Trident
At the time of first flight and its final designation: HS121 Trident
The main undercarriage also had an oddity. On retraction the undercarriage leg first shortened, then the leg rotated the wheels through 90 degrees as the leg was retracted sideways into the fuselage/wing centre section.
Bump
Bondoman, please confirm the answer so the quiz can continue. I note you have been active on other threads during the last 7 days.
Just go for it. Rules state, 5 days inactive, free for all.
Possibly one of the the ugliest military aircraft ever designed and built it has been called a camel among racehorses. Of 60 ordered only 19 were built, none survive, the last being scrapped in 1967.
Whilst the intended users soon lost interest, the type was offered to two allies, both former protagonists of the country of manufacture, and to a third country, which could have previously been a potential protagonist at least in terms of its political system.
Short Seamew, was designed to replace the Grumman Avenger for anti submarine work.
The type was taken on sales tours to Italy West Germany and Yugoslavia during 1956, the same aircraft crashed at an airshow the same year killing test pilot Walter J. “Wally” Runciman.
My kids are right “Google is love”
Thanks Wikipedia!!
Correct in every respect, over to you Jafa
As soon as I work out how to add a picture I will put up a question
Jafa