Am I right?

Hi Graeme

Strictly speaking, not quite. It's not a Curtiss F8C - but it is from the same Curtiss Model 37 family. This Model 37 is specific to the airforce it's serving with and, seeing as you and the others have danced around the head of a pin on the colour scheme of the a/c in the photo, I'm going to be a bit strict and make you pin down this sucker precisely! Get the nationality right and the rest will fall into place. (I've just checked and the answer's in Wikipedia).

Ohhh I'm evil!

All the best

Rowan

Nope.

Still can't find it.

Hi Graeme

I guess I'd better put everyone out of their misery, so things can move on. It's a Colombian Cyclone Falcon. They differed from other Model 37s in being fitted with Wright Cyclone engines. (The F8Cs also differed from the in-line versions, but had Pratt & Whitney Wasps).

Over to you for the next one.

All the best

Rowan

How on earth did I miss that? It's so obvious now!

Here's an idea for you, lets see how it goes. I have taken an image and blurred it in stages til it is beyond recognition (I hope). I will post progressively less blurred shots until it is identified.

How does that sound?

Here's the first one:

cool idea I have no idea myself but this is different

Could that be one of the many P-51 racers from the Reno Races?

I was thinking along the same lines but radial engined

Wow. I did'nt notice that it was radial engined. In that case I would like to change my guess to the F2G Super Corsair down at the Planes of Fame in Chino.

You are right about the radial, Kelly, but she aint no racer!

Here is the next stage of untwirlingness ...

Biplane. Faired struts?

faired landing gear struts that is..

Faired gear, yes, biplane, no...

I don't really know, maybe a Sukhoi-26????

Not a Sukhoi. Wrong end of the East/West scale.

Here's the next installment:

I gonna try and guess a fairchild 24 Am I in the right area at least

Getting warmer ...right country, right era, right conifiguration ...

Here's the next one ...

Well will have to think more on this.. and I am off to work in a little..

Quick guess.. A stinson? now for my work week. It is to snow 5"-10" so I may never be back.

It IS a Stinson! It IS!

Which one?

Here's the next untwisting ...

Is it a Stinson Reliant Gullwing.

And from out of nowhere, Chas brings it home.

Over to you, Chas.

YAY!

Ok here is a tricky one for everyone (hopefully). What is this, what aircraft is this from and BONUS points for anyone who knows what the red thing is and does.

Clue 1. The image has been partially pixelated to cancel out revealing details.

Well, the red thing is obviously a "Remove Before Flight" jam tin. It was used in the early days of Australian aviation at Point Cook to cover a rather nasty spike that protruded from the tail skid of one of the Bristol Boxkites. The spike itself was fitted to the tail skid as a kind of rudimentary braking device to stop the trainee pilots before they taxied into one of the hangars and did damage. It also came in very handy with the Squadron Comander's hobby of vegetable growing. He was, in fact, able to plant a single row of carrots over 2 miles long after a particularly errant pupil left his Boxkite machine on full power and went off to have a cup of tea.