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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5064 on: March 07, 2019, 11:39:29 PM »

Holy cow, flying such a thing is pure bravery.
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5065 on: March 14, 2019, 08:54:38 AM »

Time to get out of hibernation.

Not too difficult, is it?


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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5066 on: March 14, 2019, 12:40:44 PM »

What a strange coincidence to see this, I just got a new book - waffen-arsenal-special-18-nurflgel-flugzeuge
and that aircraft is shown on page 24  ;D

It is the DFS 40 (originally developed as the Delta V)



The DFS 40 (originally developed as the Delta V) was a tail-less research aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch in 1937 as a
follow-on to his Delta IV aircraft. In construction, the DFS was closer to a flying wing than its predecessor, and was built as an
alternative to that aircraft.

The DFS 40 was flown for the first time by Heini Dittmar in 1939, shortly before Lippisch departed the DFS (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug
- German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) to begin work at Messerschmitt. Soon afterwards, without Lippisch there to supervise the project,
the aircraft was crashed due to an error in center of gravity calculations that resulted in it entering a flat spin during flight.

Specifications (DFS 40) - General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Powerplant: 1 × Argus As 8 4-cyl in-line piston engine, 75 kW (100 hp)
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5067 on: March 14, 2019, 12:44:55 PM »

You should always have a readily available reference library!
You couldn't be more right, so hereby cordially invited to provide the next question
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5068 on: March 14, 2019, 04:05:50 PM »


Here is a good looking sexy airplane



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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5069 on: March 15, 2019, 07:32:57 AM »

I knew I had seen it before, French research aircraft 1950:

Nord 1601
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5070 on: March 15, 2019, 08:05:56 AM »

I knew I had seen it before, French research aircraft 1950:

Nord 1601

That is correct !  :D
You win the 15,000 dollar prize Plus a trip to Disneyland Paris !

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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5071 on: March 15, 2019, 08:37:55 AM »

I would probably look equally stupid if I won anything - which I never do.
Then again, I never gamble.

About the same timescale, unfortunately a rather miserable photo



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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5072 on: March 15, 2019, 02:07:43 PM »

unfortunately a rather miserable photo

But enough to identify it as the Supermarine 545...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_545
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5073 on: March 15, 2019, 02:11:24 PM »

Very good  ;D
You have now won the right to provide the next question
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5074 on: March 15, 2019, 02:58:48 PM »

Cheers for that Lamehawk.  :)
Plenty of clues...



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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #5075 on: March 16, 2019, 09:56:52 PM »

This is/was the Douglas XA-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_XA-2

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