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[locopiston]

It looks like Arnold's Favorite in Terminator 2 
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,47916.msg589099.html#msg589099

[max_thehitman]

UAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! I can´t stop laughing!

[LameHawk]

Very good, loco!

[Graeme]

Fascinatingly large bat! 
Nice Ilyushin gun Loco. 

Another angle of the nose. V/STOL....

[mexchiwa]

Was this thing manned or unmanned?

[BalDaddy]

Is it one my hounds' snoot?

[LameHawk]

It's a mock-up/model? Doesn't exist yet?
UAV?

[SAS~Storebror]

I think we've even had it before on the quest.

[GEORGES44]

Reminds me of a story I've read somewhere when a former RAF pilot described how he took his wife (!) in a Vampire T.11 for a ferry flight to Kairo (via Rome) back in the very early 1950s.
If only I could remember where I've read it...
Anyway: Back then his wife was just overwhelmed by how fast they could travel the world. Nowadays the unbelievable part of the story is that the wife was onboard at all, but things must have been different back then.
Using the Jetcraft Executive, the flight would have been somewhat more comfortable and the wife could have prepared a coffee (or tea) on the way


Mike

This struck a chord: I remembered a 1952 movie in which this event happens.
After some research, I found it : "The sound barrier" director David Lean (of "Lawrence of Arabia" fame)
https://www.amazon.fr/The-Sound-Barrier-Import-anglais/dp/B001AOHPJE/ref=sr_1_4?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1549551232&sr=1-4&keywords=the+sound+barrier

The fun note: no luggage was taken, the wife only clothes was her flightsuit, and she complained bitterly when her husband told her the return trip was by boat!
Fotunately the husband met a pal of his who was a BOAC captain, and could take the couple aboard a Comet aircraft bound to London.

I could not find any reference to a specific book : but maybe this will help you to find it

[locopiston]

Going back to the trivia...

I think it's a scale model, my eye tells me it could be around 53% of the real scale.

The material with which it is made seems to be from a specialized company.

And looking at those two holes well, they seem to have suffered one DP 

But still dont knowing what it is!

[SAS~Storebror]

This struck a chord: I remembered a 1952 movie in which this event happens.
After some research, I found it : "The sound barrier" director David Lean (of "Lawrence of Arabia" fame)

Oh yes, memory's coming back now.
It wasn't a book, it was precisely this movie.
I even have it on disk still in quite a good quality.
Time to watch it again one of the coming evenings...




Mike

[Graeme]

It's a mock-up/model? Doesn't exist yet?
UAV?

We're talking 2007 - it was built.

Was this thing manned or unmanned?

Intended to be manned. Tethered flight failed.

 my eye tells me it could be around 53% of the real scale.

Good eyes.

The general configuration...