Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

yellowjack said:

Is that a Tunnan?

[yellowjack]

Eric Mc said:

yellowjack said:

Is that a Tunnan?

It came up in a set of images when I was looking for "The Barrel", yes. I wasn't sure if it was a Tunnan though, or most of one, anyway. It appealed to me, how you could see the engine mounted to the aeroplane but uncovered.

The main gear doors didn't look right to me for a production Tunnan, so I had another look for the image, and this came up...

FMA AI 33 Pulqui II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_IAe_33_Pulqui_II

Only one example survives from the five prototypes built, in the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina.



By Andres Martin - http://www.flickr.com/photos/andresmartin/51255283... CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10...

[Fastdruid]

yellowjack said:

The main gear doors didn't look right to me for a production Tunnan, so I had another look for the image, and this came up...

FMA AI 33 Pulqui II

It would have been simpler if you'd just looked at the filename on the picture.

[Stickyfinger]

Designed by the good old Nazi and runner from a defeated Germany..... Kurt Tank

[yellowjack]

Anyway. File names aside, the Tunnan had a de Havilland Ghost pushing it forward. The cancelled Argentinian fighter was powered by a Rolls Royce Nene.

[Fastdruid]

yellowjack said:

Anyway. File names aside, the Tunnan had a de Havilland Ghost pushing it forward. The cancelled Argentinian fighter was powered by a Rolls Royce Nene.

My first thought before I looked at the filename was that it looked very much like a Vampire engine. Didn't really help finding out what it was but turned out I was right.

[Dr Jekyll]

yellowjack said:

It came up in a set of images when I was looking for "The Barrel", yes. I wasn't sure if it was a Tunnan though, or most of one, anyway. It appealed to me, how you could see the engine mounted to the aeroplane but uncovered.

The main gear doors didn't look right to me for a production Tunnan, so I had another look for the image, and this came up...

FMA AI 33 Pulqui II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_IAe_33_Pulqui_II

Only one example survives from the five prototypes built, in the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina.



By Andres Martin - http://www.flickr.com/photos/andresmartin/51255283... CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10...

Interesting comparison with a Tunnan since the Tunnan looks to be very heavily based on Kurt Tank's wartime design the TA-183.

[Eric Mc]

Yes - it was evolved from the Ta183 project.

[FourWheelDrift]

Another view.

[hidetheelephants]

What's the story there then? Hotdogging for some film maker?

[FourWheelDrift]

hidetheelephants said:

What's the story there then? Hotdogging for some film maker?

Just an 1981 TV commercial “Don’t Mess With Texas”

video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFD0Zyl_f0

[MartG]

Quite an effective jammer pod - that bird certainly didn't see it coming !

[LotusOmega375D]

Fighting Falcon?

[Steve_W]

The difference a couple of feet makes - if it had gone down the intake there could have been a whole different outcome (well, not for the bird!).

[Steve_D]

Is that another one just about to get it from the nose of the starboard pod/drop tank?

Steve

[mcdjl]

Steve_W said:

The difference a couple of feet makes - if it had gone down the intake there could have been a whole different outcome (well, not for the bird!).

Hopefully no more than a burp and puff of flame out the back since theyre small birds.

[Fastdruid]

[Stickyfinger]

nice splif there buddy !

[irocfan]

Fastdruid said:

Japanese bomber?

[cirian75]

P-38 Lightning