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[sniperton]

Dunno whether we had this:

[SAS~Storebror]

I don't think we had it before, but that's a Breda Ba.27 - the poor man's peashooter

Best regards - Mike

[sniperton]

I hoped it would take a bit longer due to the Chinese emblem   
Anyway, well done, your turn 

[SAS~Storebror]

Sorry but that's been one of my favourite eras of aeronautics.
This is the other one: Early jet development.

Guess this one:

[sniperton]

Looks like a Krampus with the tail of a B-17 

[SAS~Storebror]

Hint?
It's not an F-35

[SAS~Ghost129er]

Hint?
It's not an F-35

I got it, I'm certain about it.. It's an F-35!

[alexandre4442]

"Pre-prototype" of the SNCASO 4000 Vautour (second one, SO-M2, F-WFDR) ?

Regards

Edit : the real hint was that only a french mechanic could have stabilized that kind of plane with a trolley...

[sniperton]

I was sure it was French. Funny that nations really have a 'style'. For me it was the low position of the horizontal stabilizer which was telling. Though I haven't researched it as alexandre has done.

[SAS~Storebror]

alexandre is absolutely right, it's the Sud-Ouest (precisely: SNCASO) SO-M.2 scale model test aircraft for the SO.4000 experimental jet bomber.
There's been another unpowered glider scale testbed called "M.1" before which, interestingly, had been launched from the top of the only ever built and flown Heinkel He 274 4-engine high altitude bomber project aircraft derived from the He 177.
This is the M.1 mounted on the He 274:


And this is the final project, the SO.4000 "Vautour I":

Wikipedia about it for thouse who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCASO_SO.4000
And another good page about it, but in russian: http://www.airwar.ru/enc/xplane/so4000.html

Your turn alexandre!

Best regards - Mike

[alexandre4442]

Thanks for the additional infos, really enjoying that thread for that.

An easy prey now, but worth being here maybe.



Regards

[SAS~Storebror]

I feel like having a Déjà vu, in this particular case it seems like I've raised the very same quest almost exactly 3 years ago:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,13294.msg425167.html#msg425167

That said, it's the SNECMA C.450 Coléoptère

Best regards - Mike