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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:39 am

I suspect this won't trouble too many of you out there.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by viper3111 » Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:07 am

Folland gnat?
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Sparts99 » Fri Nov 26, 2010 10:01 am

Shouldn't that be a Midge as the I believe the fighter variant was called, or Ajeet in Indian AF service.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:13 am

Sparts99 wrote:Shouldn't that be a Midge as the I believe the fighter variant was called, or Ajeet in Indian AF service.
I'll give you that. It is an HAL Ajeet, the licence built version of the Gnat/Midge lightweight fighter.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Sparts99 » Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:21 am

I read once that the PAF Starfighters couldn't use their missiles against the IAF Ajeet as their engine didn't provide a distinct enough IR signature against the heat of the ground.

Anyway, I have nothing to offer as I'm at work so anyone please step in with another challenge.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:54 pm

Sparts99 wrote:I read once that the PAF Starfighters couldn't use their missiles against the IAF Ajeet as their engine didn't provide a distinct enough IR signature against the heat of the ground.

Anyway, I have nothing to offer as I'm at work so anyone please step in with another challenge.
OK squire. How's about this then?
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:50 pm

mapo wrote:Albatross?
Neither the German WW1 fighter, the seabird nor the Monty Python sketch of the same name I'm afraid.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Mike » Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:53 pm

Blue Diamond wrote:
mapo wrote:Albatross?
Neither the German WW1 fighter, the seabird nor the Monty Python sketch of the same name I'm afraid.
"Do you get wafers with it ?"




Sorry,going back to the good old Python days. :whistle:
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:19 am

Psi wrote:(50/50) Martinside? Perhaps a Buzzard?
Give the man a ceegar. Yes it's a Martinsyde Buzzard of the Latvian Air Force.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:00 pm

Has the look of a Sikorsky flying boat but I don't think it is one of that marque.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Mike » Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:24 pm

Dornier ?
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Post by Mike » Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:30 pm

Psi wrote:
Flaps wrote:Dornier ?
Nicht einer von Claudius.
UH !

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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:35 pm

One from the Beriev stable?
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by beefsteak » Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:18 pm

When nobody goes for a FIAT on lake Mijouri in Italy...????? only guessing , it just looks like Italy !!!
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Figure8 » Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:49 pm

Possibly Russian, Grigorovich?
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by pako-2008 » Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:06 pm

Figure8 wrote:Possibly Russian, Grigorovich?
I was thinking along the Russian lines, closest thing I can find looking similar is perhaps a Beriev MBR 2
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:56 pm

Having spent more time Googling that is good for me I found a Japanese site that lists an awful lot of Russian aircraft and buried deep inside it is the Chetverikov ARK-3. The pic is a from a different angle but it looks like the aircraft in yours so I'll go for the ARK-3.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by garyscott » Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:33 pm

(...methinks Blue Diamond strikes again... :ninja: :ninja: :ninja: )
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:44 am

Psi wrote:
Blue Diamond wrote:Having spent more time Googling that is good for me I found a Japanese site that lists an awful lot of Russian aircraft and buried deep inside it is the Chetverikov ARK-3. The pic is a from a different angle but it looks like the aircraft in yours so I'll go for the ARK-3.
Well done, no need for a clue.

S.
Time to get my thinking cap on and come up with another mystery item.
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Re: Off we go again - competition - what's this?

Post by Blue Diamond » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:49 am

Here we are.
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