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Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:03 am
by Brady
???
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:08 am
by ChezDaJez
Don't know exactly but appears to be a twin engine aircraft, probably captured and being tested by the U.S. or Brits judging by the handwriting next to some of the instruments. Lower right hand panel has dual oil temp gauges. Lower left throttle pack has dual throttles. Judging from the window layout, I would say Italian, possibly German. Dosen't strike me as a Japanese design right off the bat.
First thought was a German jet but then I saw the manifold and cylinder pressure gauges.
Chez
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:50 am
by trojan58
How abot the bell x1 rocket plane
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:06 am
by Greyshaft
The joystick is like a set of handelbars... is the pilot lying prone?
Bottm left lever is labelled "Tail Cluster" ... perhaps a rocket pack?
Twin engine yes.
I was thinking Gotha but the GO-229 had a one-piece front windshield whereas the photo has four sections abd then I saw the RPM guage which indicates prop driven. No sign of a prop in front but there is the slightest indication of nose fueselage at the bottom of the windshield.
Is that an angle indicated in the corrugated iron in the backgrouund. Could we be looka the ceiling of a hanger? The Nattar had a three piece windshield and only one engine so forget that theory
I shall retire and think some more[&:]
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:54 am
by wild_Willie2
my first thouht, a x plane. The facceted windscreen just sceems X !!
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:06 am
by wild_Willie2
second thought, no X plane, a OIL temp GAUGE on the dash. Rocked planes do not have a oil temp gauge [&:]. There is also NO GUNSSIGHT, making it highly unlike to be an operational fighter. No diffinatly no X-1, have some cockpit pics on the screen.
concusion I HAVE NO IDEA
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:54 pm
by janushm
my guess is is a captured plane.. as the writing just seems to be written on..possibly for testing
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:57 pm
by janushm
a Ki46 Dinah
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:43 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: janushm
a Ki46 Dinah
Dunno much about plane cockpits, however, Brady DID NOT label this "special edition" - and so if his old conventions hold true, this is something out of the WITP sphere - not ETO, not Post-WW2. This would pretty much rule out German and Italian aircraft, X-1, etc.
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:49 pm
by janushm
dinah is jap................silly man
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:50 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: janushm
dinah is jap................silly man
LOL[:D]
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:17 pm
by wild_Willie2
I already thought about the dinah, but I already checked severall cocpit photos and windscreen desings. it looks like a dinah, but it isn't one.........
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:51 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The clock numerals and altimeter numerals seem to clearly be western. The instrument labeling does indeed look "after market", but why would the numerals be western on a Japanese plane?
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:55 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Greyshaft
The joystick is like a set of handelbars... is the pilot lying prone?
Bottm left lever is labelled "Tail Cluster" ... perhaps a rocket pack?
Twin engine yes.
I was thinking Gotha but the GO-229 had a one-piece front windshield whereas the photo has four sections abd then I saw the RPM guage which indicates prop driven. No sign of a prop in front but there is the slightest indication of nose fueselage at the bottom of the windshield.
Is that an angle indicated in the corrugated iron in the backgrouund. Could we be looka the ceiling of a hanger? The Nattar had a three piece windshield and only one engine so forget that theory
I shall retire and think some more[&:]
I think that might be the rudder control on the floor...there seems to be no room under the instrument panel for legs. In which case the control stick is not in the picture and the pilot might be consigned to a reclining position...which suggest test aircraft to me.
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:03 pm
by Mark VII
wild guess, A-20
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:46 pm
by SamRo
horton?
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:48 pm
by janushm
the flying wig? naah it is a normal not special edition
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:00 pm
by Rendova
It is a Dornier Do-335A-1 Pfeil
Cool plane, It was a twin but a tractor-pusher setup
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/ai ... _do335.htm
The Cockpit must have been translated postwar
Edit: Nope, I am wrong, the engines instruments are marked "L" and "R" do it can't be a tractor-pusher
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:06 pm
by rtrapasso
Well, either Brady forgot to call this a "Special Edition", or it's not a Dornier, or the were Dorniers in the Pacific Theater that i never heard about.
Did the Japanese have an equivalent?
RE: Name This...(314)
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:33 pm
by Cap Mandrake
How come we cant see any of the front prop blades then? Seems to me we ought to be able to see at least one.