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[DHumphrey]

Dammit Humphrey.

Ok fellas, try this. 

[max_thehitman]

The BAT-Plane !??

[DHumphrey]

LOL … Max, nice try 

[P51vsFw190]

Saro SR.53

[locopiston]

In the picture of DHumphrey as in Max's Batplane at first glance, there seems to be a Bell X-2 as a background. 

But clearly in the Batplane you can see the air inlets for the jet propulsion in the wing deployment, it is bigger to house the crime lab and the television (very important this last, in world cup season)

And the photo of DHumphrey apparently no air intake, could say is a rocket plane ... like the X2, but with two rockets, one on top of the other.

The two engines without air intake led me to the Saunders-Roe SR.53.
which has a rocket motor (de Havilland Specter) and a jet propulsior (Armstrong Siddeley Viper)

Personally I think the Batplane have better design of air intakes than the Saunders-Roe SR.53.


As always I was beaten at the last minute by James.

It happens to me to talk like the batman villains 

[SAS~Storebror]

Personally I think the Batplane have better design of air intakes than the Saunders-Roe SR.53.

What makes you come to that conclusion? Just the look of it?
Because aerodynamically, both have their pros and cons.
Wing root intakes (as used in the Batplane or, more related to reality, the Hawker Hunter or the british V-Planes) aerodynamically are very much similar to scooped intakes, which have proved to be the superior design for strictly subsonic use.
However the submerged intake of the SR.53 has it's benifits in the transsonic regime.
This isn't something you simply have to believe when I tell, but you can study yourself:
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/005157.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.700.6301&rep=rep1&type=pdf


Mike

[DHumphrey]

Well done to both of you, 51 & loco 

I'll leave it to you both to decide who will post the next aircraft. 

[P51vsFw190]

I’ll go since my answer came first in order of posts.

Try this easy one:





James

[mexchiwa]

It's a high altitude monoplane

Sorry - can't be more specific than that...

[sniperton]

Attempt at a negative diving record from the 1930s.

[DHumphrey]

It's the … Bristol Type 138 High Altitude Monoplane

Completed in early 1936, the aircraft was routinely capable of achieving 50,000ft and could also carry an observer when necessary.  It holds the distinction of setting nine separate altitude world records, the ultimate of these happened during a 2¼-hour flight flown by Flight Lieutenant M.J. Adam, in which he achieved a record altitude, which was later homologated by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale as having attained a maximum altitude of 53,937 ft (16,440 m).

[P51vsFw190]

Your turn Humph’