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[Captain Dawson]

There's a good explanation about the Servo Flaps here:
http://www.helis.com/howflies/servo.php

Very interesting, thank you. 

[SAS~Storebror]

I guess it's a typical 'open house' situation now 

Okay...
This one should be fairly easy:

[alexandre4442]

Hi all,

Well, I'm a little ashamed about jumping in... But this one strongly reminded me of some british design, so I googled "british flying wing" and came up with this : Armstrong Whitworth A. W. 52.

Very interesting and funny thread by the way, keep it up !

Best regards

[SAS~Storebror]

I'm a little ashamed about jumping in

Why that?
Everyone is invited to guess here and your guess was spot on!

Armstrong Whitworth A. W. 52.

Absolutely right.
Just let me add that this picture shows the 2nd aircraft, the one equipped with Derwent engines (TS363).
Aircraft no.1 was equipped with Nene engines (TS368).

Your turn

[alexandre4442]

Without Dr. Google I wouldn't have guessed 

Whatever, here is something that is worth a try maybe. Happy hunting !

Regards

[BalDaddy]

 As regards the previous, was this a test bed for the Vulcan one wonders?

Another question engendered by this entertaining thread. Ho could the French, known for their sense of style and panache design so many ugly aircraft?

[sniperton]

Chubakka's DIY V-1 attached to the Millennium Falcon.

[SAS~Storebror]

The picture shows a JB-2 "Loon" flying bomb attached to a B-17.
Full scale picture here:


The JB-2 has been developed from crashed V-1 buzzbombs on great britain in june 1944.
It's been a great reverse engineering job: Only 3 weeks after the first V-1 splashed on UK, the first JB-2 copy was launched in the U.S.
Initial plans were to use them in the assault of the japanese homeland, but actually none was used in combat.

How could the French, known for their sense of style and panache design so many ugly aircraft?

How come it's impossible to answer that question without violating the forum rules?

Best regards - Mike

[alexandre4442]

Evidence speaks for itself 

And yes the development story of that jet bomb is pretty amazing.

Regards

[SAS~Storebror]

So here we go, next quest:

[Radoye]

Ah, a rare bird indeed! Only 6 of the kind were ever built, and this specific one was used as a testbed for development of different jet engines (hence the two outboard nacelles). Standard ones only had the 4 inboard engines packed into twin nacelles. The airframe itself was a development of an older piston-engined transport plane, which itself just missed deployment in WW2.

As for the name and country of origin, i'll leave it for someone else. Should not be hard to guess now!

[Fresco23]

Without googling... I'll only say that vertical stabilizer tastes a bit like a Douglas design... yes??