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Title: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 01, 2006, 01:59:21 PM
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
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 01, 2006, 02:02:25 PM
Sorry about plane 1 - hope this photo resized will help
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 02, 2006, 03:35:10 AM
I'm going to guess that plane 1 is a Hawker TF.58 Hunter
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 02, 2006, 03:52:45 AM
Plane 3 is, I believe, a Fieseler Fi 156 C Storch
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 02, 2006, 04:29:00 AM
....and plane 2 is a Fairey Swordfish Mk.1
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 02, 2006, 04:46:27 AM
Correct on two, but plane one escapes you at the moment. I have confidence in you though1
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 02, 2006, 08:15:42 AM
Missed the twin tails. I'll say revise my guess on plane 1 to de Haviland Vampire T11
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 02, 2006, 11:21:10 AM
This man knows his stuuf, but can he get this one?
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 03, 2006, 04:30:17 AM
Though it's no airplane, I'll bite. It looks like a MI-24 Hind-D
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 03, 2006, 07:55:24 AM
Perhaps it's time to launch another member of the _________Puzzles.com family. How's AeroPuzzles.com strike you?  ;D
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 03, 2006, 08:51:40 AM
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!
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 03, 2006, 09:43:23 AM
BAC TSR2?
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 03, 2006, 11:35:55 AM
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:-
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 03, 2006, 12:13:00 PM
Plane 7 looks like a Grumman F7 Tigercat.
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 06, 2006, 01:30:21 AM
Correct on plane 7 but - er - no reply on plane 8?
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 06, 2006, 03:18:18 AM
That's a toughie. I'll guess it's a Republic P-43 Lancer
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 06, 2006, 03:53:56 AM
Hint - same make as number 7
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 06, 2006, 06:11:40 AM
I sort of looks like an F6 Hellcat, but what looked like guns on the engine cowl tricked me. is it an F6?
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 06, 2006, 07:51:59 AM
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
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 06, 2006, 08:35:14 AM
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?
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 07, 2006, 03:38:40 AM
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.   ???
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 07, 2006, 03:44:24 AM
Plane 9 is, I think, a Bristol Blenheim (aka Type 142)
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 07, 2006, 03:51:19 AM
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.
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: lynxd67 on December 07, 2006, 04:15:54 AM
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.
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 07, 2006, 05:44:37 AM
Plane 8 looks like a CAC Boomerang...

You're sure it's a Grumman?
Title: Re: KarnUtz, the boot is on the other foot now!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 25, 2009, 05:59:22 AM
....and he searched until he cried. Then it died; then it died.