Yeeersssss! Congratulations, your turn! I

found this picture at the Dassault corporate homepage, there is some more about it there, but I don't remember.
So go on.

Hi there

Sorry for the delay - got distacted by Spitfire walkarounds!

What is this monster?



All the best

Rowan

I don't know what it is... but it must be the ugliest airplane ever!

Hi Gábor

Yep, it's certainly up there with the worst of them! :-)

All the best

Rowan

After going through my limited resources, of "The Worlds Ugliest Aircraft", "The Worlds Worse Aircraft" "The Worlds Dumbest Aircraft" "The Worlds Waste of Government Funds, and Time Aircraft" The extremely rare edition of "The Aircraft That Put Companies Out of Business" The all important copy of "The World Aircraft That Convinced It's Designer To Find Another Career", and "Aircraft Designed Under The Influence Of Excessive Alcohol, and Other Substances". I have come up empty handed..... I'm stumped......
Could we please have a kit of this....... ??? :-)

Hi all!

Mind what you say Gábor, the French are known to have made the ugliest ones!
Rowan, I think it's a Blackburn "Cubaroo"

Jean-Luc

Well done Jean-Luc!

It is indeed the Cubaroo (named for its Cub engine) of 1924 and intended for coastal defence. Over to you for the next one.

All the best

Rowan

Hi Rowan!

I searched in my "magic" book and found a picture of a Blackburn R.1 "blackburn" wich is similar ugly in it's design. So I simply searched a little further in that direction. Maybe the designer of these two were Picasso and Braque! Both are well known Cubist artists :-)

Here's my next one: What's the story behind that picture



Rowan, allow a few minutes to the other before giving the right answer please

Jean-Luc

Hi jean-Luc,

Hey, is this the interior of a Bell XM-1 Airacuda? I read that plane had its own independent generators to run the fuel pumps and other electrical components. This looks like a bunch of generators to me.

Brian

Hi Brian!

Sorry, these are not "independent generators to run the fuel pumps and other electrical components". The plane in question is a lot older than the Airacuda

Jean-Luc

What a picture!
Ive been scratching my head on this for ages,so I am going to take a wild guess.
Is is an early attempt at some form of automatic pilot?

Hi there

I think it's a photo of my tool-shed after a spring-clean...

All the best

Rowan

Hi Nigel!

Félicitations!

That's indeed one of the first automatic pilot devices. It was installed on a Voisin X bomber for tests around 1918. But the idea of an automatic pilot is even older. In 1912, an american floatplane flew without pilot with a Sperry Gyroscope. And before 1900, Hiram Maxim (England) equipped his vapor driven plane/kite with a gyroscope...
Since, a lot of improvement was done on this system! :-)

Nice wild guess Nigel! It's your turn!

Jean-Luc

Blimey!
Im not sure whos more surprised that was the correct answer,,Jean-Luc,,myself,,or the rest of the world :-)
I'll come up with something asap,,but I bet it wont be as hard or obscure as the last one!
Of for a bit of
Nige

Ok guys,
Can you name this aircraft?

It is a Fokker Spin (Spider) I think. I am not sure if the first or the second version though. But I hope I am right.

Hi Gaborka!
It is indeed the first Fokker Spin,,also named Spider.
Anthony Fokker decided in 1910 to build his own airplane together with school friend Franz von Daum.

Franz didnt have enough money to buy a motor. Together with the 1500 German Mark of Anthony's father they where able to start building.
The two builders were very excited when the Spin made his first hops. But the joy was only for a short time because when Fokker was in Holland for a few days, von Daum tried to take of with the Spin.

The aircraft hit a tree and it was damaged beyond repair. The engine was still usable and could be used for a second Spin witch they also build together.

This was a design used numerous bracing wires and accordingly it was called the "spin" (Spider).

Over to you

Hi!
Also, what is this?

Yes it is a Turbolet or Turbolyot. Obviously you know more than me, I just found the picture at the Monino Air Museum site. Congratulations, it is your turn!

1. Nationality of manufacture - USSR
2. Name of manufacture, series number, as well as nickname - Sukhoi SU 7, Fitter
3. Country represented by these markings- India, No.32 Squadron
Andy (++)

Hi Arnold

Is it
1 Russian
2 Sukhoi ,Su7bm,Fitter
3 Indian air force

Dennis