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Sillius_Sodus

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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2011, 09:25:45 PM »

It's a Beech 18.
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2011, 09:38:38 PM »

Like I said before... It's a Beech 18
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2011, 01:04:32 AM »

Beech 18


sorry, just wanted to be the third in a row to say it
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2011, 01:29:32 AM »

Beech 18, Beech AT-7... More or less the same aircraft. Like a Harvard and a Texan... A Wildcat or a Martlet...
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2011, 03:54:24 PM »

Reminds me of the Japanese transport aircraft from Letters from Iwo Jima.
Look at 0:26:

A brief interior shot at 0:19 here:


Also a Beech 18.  ;)
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2011, 04:39:43 PM »

we'll see who get's the last Beech 18


...Beech 18
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2011, 09:02:12 PM »

Possibly not a Beech 18.

The framing around the cockpit doesn't look quite right for a Beech 18 and the markings along the side look typically Japanese (who didn't use that type).

The angle of the picture and possible damage to the nose makes it hard to give an exact ID, but the Japanese plane that come closest is the Ki-56 Thalia.

Of course, that opens a whole can of worms because the Ki-56 was a copy of another very common twin-engined light passenger/transport plane, the Lockheed 14 Super Electra, which also spawned the Lockheed Hudson and PV2 Ventura. So, the wiseguys who said Amelia Earhardt's plane weren't far off (she was flying a modified Lockheed 10 Electra when she vanished).

Give us a picture of the rudder and tailplane and we can give a more precise answer.
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2011, 10:38:48 PM »

Possibly not a Beech 18.

The framing around the cockpit doesn't look quite right for a Beech 18 and the markings along the side look typically Japanese (who didn't use that type).



This should solve it. That is a common factory paint scheme for the twin beech. Identical cockpit framing and paint scheme. Although the one in this picture does seem to have the marking under the cockpit a tad aft of the submerged example (because of the restoration or perhaps Beech just put them in different places on different models/years?). Sorry for the large photo. She's a beauty nonetheless and could definitely belong in this forum anyhow.  People are probably already yawning at this thread but I figured I'd give you a lovely photo. ;D Gotta love that oil drippin' out of that right Pratt.
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2011, 11:18:50 PM »

No way. I disagree entirely!
It looks exactly like ..... an Fw-200c Condor.  :D

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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2011, 09:37:49 AM »

No way. I disagree entirely!
It looks exactly like ..... an Fw-200c Condor.  :D

Nope, it's a Beech 18! Unless it's a B-29 or a Fokker Triplane or some other plane that is almost exactly, but not quite, completely opposite from a Beech 18.

In the submerged picture, you can see that the nose cap has fallen off or been torn away right at the hinge, as seen in the non-submerged version. Also, the civil version doesn't appear to have had the navigator's "astrodome" just aft of the cockpit, as appeared in the military versions.

Beautiful picture and great answer to the mystery, Aviatorsneath!
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #22 on: November 29, 2011, 03:23:28 PM »

I was only kidding. :p Definitely a Beech 18.
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Re: Can anyone identify this plane?
« Reply #23 on: December 01, 2011, 01:15:19 AM »

No, no no no no no no no no!

It clearly is a B-36 - look at the glazing and the framing for the windscreen...



*I am only kidding - it's a Beech, honest ;) *
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