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[mexchiwa]

Don't think it's a T-6/SNJ.  Gonna say the us markings are a red herring and it's a Yak-52. How wrong am I?

[Bizu]

You are not wrong
It is a Yak-52 with few modifications

[SAS~Ghost129er]

OHHH, that's cheeky, real cheeky and sneaky. 

[mexchiwa]

I Aint  got nothin. Somebody else post one

[SAS~Storebror]

Okay, time for something harder.
Maybe.
Maybe not, who knows

What's this? (No, the answer is not "a Zeppelin", I'm asking for what is underneath):



Best regards - Mike

[SAS~Ghost129er]

Something straight out of Crimson Skies, at least, what it was based on

[sniperton]

1. A scene from Iron Sky 2 before post-production.

2. Maybe this?

[SAS~Storebror]

Not number 1 and not exactly number 2 either, but the question remains:
What is it?

Best regards - Mike

[SAS~Ghost129er]

Why does it look like a flying bomb..? That's a mini fuel tank above it for sure, it's got wings. It's a flying bomb of some sort. 

[sniperton]

I think it's a wire-controlled glide torpedo developed by Siemens-Schuckert during WWI and launched from under the belly of an L35 Zeppelin as depicted below. I guess it's one of the earlier versions from about 1916/17, but I have no clue which one.

[SAS~Ghost129er]

Holy crap are those aerial torpedoes?! 

[SAS~Storebror]

I think it's a wire-controlled glide torpedo developed by Siemens-Schuckert during WWI and launched from under the belly of an L35 Zeppelin as depicted below. I guess it's one of the earlier versions from about 1916/17, but I have no clue which one.

Absolutely right.
It's the early 1917 version of the Siemens-Schuckert aerial torpedo, controlled via a thin wire from it's launching aircraft (Zeppelin during trials, intended carrier aircraft was the Siemens-Schuckert R VIII). The picture was taken in Jüterbog Summer 1917.
The carrier is "L 35" (LZ 80), an "R" class "Super Zeppelin" with 19 gas cells.

The picture was taken from the book
"German Guided Missiles" by Heinz J. Nowarra (Translation by James C. Cable), Schiffer Military/Aviation History Atglen, PA - (C) 1993 Schiffer Publishing Ltd. - ISBN 0-88740-475-8

If you like to know more about these aerial torpedoes of WWI but don't want to buy the book, this site has a little bit of information too: http://warnepieces.blogspot.de/2011/12/guided-missiles-world-war-one-style.html

Your turn sniperton

Best regards - Mike