Aircraft Identification Thread

[UAREBBQ]

it's a plane, I told you not to say it wasn't :D

[Spudbob]

it's an ekranoplan Caspian sea monster. knew I recognized it somewhere, from Wikipedia's largest airplanes list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster

Alright, I want to try now.

Hint, it's experimental...

[Argonaught_]

Convair XC-99 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XC-99



Quite a nice plane - Designed as a cargo carrier.

One plane still exists and looks like it will eventually be restored.



Open house guys : btw Stu - Spud and Bbq please try and use bigger pictures in the future =)

Regards,
_Argonaught_

[AOD_Whaleco]

Something else then :

[ButterDolphin]

Mil V-12. Largest helicopter ever built

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_V-12

[AOD_Whaleco]

Correct sir, you can place a new picture!

[ButterDolphin]

Alright, here you guys go


Couple hints:
1: Only one was built
2: Used by the Royal Navy, not the RAF

[Lt_FellaWhite]

I've spent at least 2 hours searching for this thing and I can not find it.

[Argonaught_]

It has lasted a long time so I might as well =)

Actually a really good one - Just generic enough to make it hard to find, but also just weird enough to make it easy to find at same time.

Airspeed A.S.39 Fleet Shadower : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed_Fleet_Shadower

More information here : https://defenceoftherealm.wordpress....eet-shadowers/

I love the folding wing mechanism - got to be one of the few 4 engined wing folding aircraft.

[Argonaught_]

Here is a god among aircraft.





Hints :

Biplane Racer
Came first twice, second four times and third once in 10 years of racing.
Top speed of over 200mph AVERAGE

The rules for Biplane racing had to change because it was too op. The organizers basically were asked by the others teams "Please NURF"

Have fun,
Regards,
_Argonaught_

[Lt_FellaWhite]

The would be the Beck-Mahoney Sorceress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck-Mahoney_Sorceress

You need to stop putting planes that have unique names into this Argo, I just google the name and *poof* there it is.

As for the next aircraft, this was one of the last biplanes to enter service.

[ButterDolphin]

Supermarine Sea Otter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Sea_Otter

Last biplane flying boat, very interesting aircraft

[ButterDolphin]

This plane actually belonged to a friend of a friend before it crashed at the beginning of this year.

Hint: this type of airplane was originally with a tricycle gear configuration, but many of them are being converted to conventional landing gear. (one pictured is one of them)

[Argonaught_]

Yak 52 TW : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-52

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=183096 - Is the accident report for this aircraft. I am sorry for your loss.

I have a friend who owns a Yak 52 - ZU-CWJ


The problem with these aircraft is that their radial engines do tend to have issues and so do their gear.

ZU-CWJ ended up having an EFATO (Engine failure after take off) and managed to make it to the beach and landed(Gear up)


I was there with the owners to help with Sand removal and I happened to take pictures of the recovery process.

The Initial Damage



The recovery (The airport was on the other side of the hedge so they used a massive crane to lift it over and then rolled it to the mechanics hangar)


When landing on a beach - just remember SAND GETS EVERYWHERE


That is the tail inspection plate (50% of the aircraft fuselage was filled with sand.

Fun fact : Thats me to the left of the aircraft (made the front cover of main news paper in my province


The report for the accident : https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=145432


Then another Yak, this time a Yak 18T ZU-BHR of which I have flown aerobatics in :
Doing aerobatics over the old Durban International airport


It also had an engine failure
How it was the night of the incident



How it was the morning after :


The sea is a powerful force xD

Thankfully both of these were not fatal and ZU-CWJ was repaired and ZU-BHR was replaced. But the Yak 52 and 18Ts are very nice aircraft and thier pilots are very very nice and friendly. I used to take photographs at my local airport and I was offered flights in many a aircraft, just because they knew I was passionate about flying. Alo II, Yak 52, Yak 18T, Robinson R44, Beech Kingair and Cessna 402 to name but a few (obviously Cessna 152 and 172 too).

Also : Fella, I do weird and wonderful ones with obvious hints because I want people to be able to solve them and at the same time learn about an interesting aircraft. =)

[Argonaught_]

Okay so here is the next one :
For it to be deemed 100% correct I would like to know
Make, Model and Name of this specific race plane.
Also the nationality of the Pilot (MASSIVE HINT)




It is a plane I only recently found and will be following it for quite a long time.

Regards,
_Argonaught_

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This is why I do obvious things - This https://i.gyazo.com/b3796fb1f22b513f...f78de02d2f.png is one I am looking for more information on in my free time(Yes in my free time I research and look into planes. It all started with a search of the Mini-Imp Kit plane and then I was on a Russian kit builders site and found this picture of an American plane, The only picture I can find of it.) (Even with the Registration I can only find the name, No other actual information on it. )

[ButterDolphin]

I didn't know the pilot that well, only met him once, but I knew the girl who was flying as a passenger. She was a pilot who went to school with me.

http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/_...04X35410&key=1

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=183096

[Argonaught_]

Alright the 24 hour mark has passed

The answer is :
Cassutt IIIM, #46 Sassy Sangoma and the pilot is of course South African!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassutt_Special

To my knowledge the first or at least one of the very few South Africans who has participated in the Reno Air Races (Albeit the Formula 1 Class and not Unlimited(warbirds) category)

This is why I never understand why people boast about speeding in cars



This is more fun, much faster and best of all LEGAL. Ohh and probably cheaper too (Cassutt's can sell for about $20 000 to $40 000)

OPEN HOUSE

Regards,
_Argonaught_

[Argonaught_]

Seeing as no one else has made a post - Here we go :


A South African Aerobatic team - So a easy Biplane, Aerobatic aircraft.

Regards,
_Argonaught_

[Lt_FellaWhite]

That would be the Gabriel Pitts Special Aerobatic Team, flying the Pitts Special. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitts_Special

[Argonaught_]

Correct =)