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[SAS~Ghost129er]

Well...guess what is this.
~snip~

BY BEDROOM! 

[dagger123456]

top view of two man carrying plywood

[locopiston]

Mix between an avia and LaGG3?

[SAS~Storebror]

OK - this is a one-off.
But it's from my favourite period.

Ah, the Stuka that wasn't meant to be.
Heinkel He 118 V1.
Nice plane, but not built for purpose.
It's one of those "don't take a knife to a gunfight" things:
What the hell was going on in Heinkel's mind when he did this?
The competition was for a dive bomber, period.
The He 118 was arguably the cleanest design and looked very promising.
It was considerably more streamlined than the Junkers competitor, with retractable landing gear and an internal bomb bay.
But when you're asked to demonstrate the plane's capabilities in a dive bomber competition and you go there and say "see here my pretty new design, looks much better than the others, only thing is: It cannot dive" then you simply missed the point.
Nevertheless the plane paved the way for the Yokosuka D4Y eventually.

Should I be the one with the baton, then please use this as an open round invitation as I'm on business trip at the moment

Best regards - Mike

[max_thehitman]

OK - this is a one-off.
But it's from my favourite period.

Ah, the Stuka that wasn't meant to be.
Heinkel He 118 V1.
Nice plane, but not built for purpose.
It's one of those "don't take a knife to a gunfight" things:
What the hell was going on in Heinkel's mind when he did this?
The competition was for a dive bomber, period.

Best regards - Mike

That is correct!
It does look like a smaller version of the Stuka.

[LameHawk]

Well A1. You ask how I got that Joy JX.

It may have been rhetorical - nevertheless:

I have to admit to a certain addiction to aviation quizzes. I have been doing it for some twenty years, and it has provided me with some experience. I was hooked when I accidentally came across a picture of a small bit of an airplane that I recognized immediately because I had built the plane as a plastic model back in the sixties. Memory in the fingers can be quite good.
When looking through thousands of pictures you get a "feeling" for the picture. I can't really explain this "feeling", but I have grown quite good at extracting information from the picture: which nationality the plane is, approximately when the photo was taken, the quality of the picture (Russian pictures from the thirties are generally miserable), anything else in the picture (people, uniforms, backgrounds etc. I actually found a plane by recognizing the bluish mountains in the background from another picture with a similar background - it had to be the same event - and it was!
As to the Joy: I thought it looked more or less like a flapjack, so I made a black and white picture search for 12787 and flapjack - and there it was.
The registration is often a giveaway, and as I thought it looked American I might have added N or NC to the registration - which would also have found the plane.
And no - I hadn't seen this contraption before. Then again - that's why it is so interesting doing quizzes. You learn something new all the time

So - if you would like to waste a lot of time in an interesting way here is a couple of recommendations:

http://www.dauntless-soft.com/AviaQuiz/

http://www.military-airshows.co.uk/quiz.htm


Good luck

[locopiston]

Lets relive this tread again...

storebror declares an open house

gues this!

[P51vsFw190]

That is the Republic XP-72 Superbolt Prototype #2, Serial # 43-6599

[locopiston]

GOOD! the tread is live!

Corect P51vsFw190!

you turn!

[SAS~Storebror]

So we stalled again?
Guess this one:


Note: This is a very special plane, so it's not sufficient just to guess the general plane model.

Best regards - Mike

[Gaston]

Douglas ?

[SAS~Storebror]

Definitely yes