KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!

[lynxd67]

Name these planes please - model numbers too. And for you americans, we too have a wall of remembrance for the american aircrew who died in the 2nd world war - all 10,000 of them

[lynxd67]

Sorry about plane 1 - hope this photo resized will help

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm going to guess that plane 1 is a Hawker TF.58 Hunter

[Otto Puzzell]

Plane 3 is, I believe, a Fieseler Fi 156 C Storch

[Otto Puzzell]

....and plane 2 is a Fairey Swordfish Mk.1

[lynxd67]

Correct on two, but plane one escapes you at the moment. I have confidence in you though1

[Otto Puzzell]

Missed the twin tails. I'll say revise my guess on plane 1 to de Haviland Vampire T11

[lynxd67]

This man knows his stuuf, but can he get this one?

[Otto Puzzell]

Though it's no airplane, I'll bite. It looks like a MI-24 Hind-D

[Otto Puzzell]

Perhaps it's time to launch another member of the _________Puzzles.com family. How's AeroPuzzles.com strike you? 

[lynxd67]

Well, Airplanes aren't exactly my thing, but I am more than impressed by your knowledge. Here is my last effort to stump you though!

[Otto Puzzell]

BAC TSR2?

[lynxd67]

I am about to give up, but I have a friend who is an aviation journalist in Switzerland I have asked to join in KarnUtz. If any one can stump you it will be him. Doi you rent yourself out as an encyclopedia from time to time? Here are my last two efforts:-

[Otto Puzzell]

Plane 7 looks like a Grumman F7 Tigercat.

[lynxd67]

Correct on plane 7 but - er - no reply on plane 8?

[Otto Puzzell]

That's a toughie. I'll guess it's a Republic P-43 Lancer

[lynxd67]

Hint - same make as number 7

[Otto Puzzell]

I sort of looks like an F6 Hellcat, but what looked like guns on the engine cowl tricked me. is it an F6?

[lynxd67]

Not Tiger.... nor Hell... but ?

Here's another couple to test you though! Incidentally, all this can be found at the museum at Duxford cambridge north east of London not far from the American USAF war cemetery

[lynxd67]

As regards the aircraft above, the company was founded in 1931 by, amongst others, the novelist Neville Shute although this example was built in 1940 by another company under contract. Incidentally, re the photo attached here, is this the real one or is the real on in the USA?

[Otto Puzzell]

Plane 8 is a real puzzler. Grumman's F3 was a biplane, F4 wings were mounted higher (unless the perspective on this photo is throwing me off) , and every F8 I've seen  has a bubble canopy.   

[Otto Puzzell]

Plane 9 is, I think, a Bristol Blenheim (aka Type 142)

[Otto Puzzell]

To the best of my knowledge, Memphis Belle is undergoing a lengthy restoration at the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton, Ohio, after being vandalized and neglected for decades while on display in Tennessee.

[lynxd67]

Frankly I can't blame you if you never get plane 9 because it is so obscure that even my aviation jouranlist friend with 30 years in the business couldn't get it. Attached is the description of it.

[Otto Puzzell]

Plane 8 looks like a CAC Boomerang...

You're sure it's a Grumman?