Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[pushthebutton]

A-12 arriving at A51?

[NM62]

pushthebutton said:

A-12 arriving at A51?

Looks like the XB70 Valkyirie

[RicksAlfas]

NM62 said:

ooks like the XB70 Valkyirie

It is. Without wings!

[pushthebutton]

Ah yeah.

I see it now.

[tight5]

[Hurricane52]

[Eric Mc]

That looks like a painting.

I don't recognise the type of aircraft.

[Dr Jekyll]

Eric Mc said:

I don't recognise the type of aircraft.

Who are you and what have you done with the real Eric?

[whiteonyx]

Vickers Viscount prototype?

[eccles]

Tail fin looks very Douglas.

[FourWheelDrift]

Time and location of the photo is confusing me, that looks like a VW Type 2 on the right, so is this Germany in the 1950s?

[Eric Mc]

It could be a Douglas DC-4 but the cockpit windows are all wrong.

It's either a painting or a heavily doctored photograph.

It's certainly not the Viscount prototype (The Vickers 630) -



And it's not an actual Douglas DC-4 -



It reminded me a bit of the SAAB Scania - but that was a twin engined aircraft -



And there was also the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo which was a rival to the Vickers 630 but never entered production -




The aircraft in the picture also seems to have radial piston engines. Both the Vickers 630 and Apollo had turboprops.

[Hurricane52]

It’s a photo from the fifties and there’s a clue to the manufacturer in the bottom right hand corner...

[Speed 3]

Hurricane52 said:

It’s a photo from the fifties and there’s a clue to the manufacturer in the bottom right hand corner...

Ah that'll be the Agusta AZ.8L then:

Edited by Speed 3 on Sunday 21st October 14:24

[Hurricane52]

Spot on. I was swatting up on the company history after buying Countess Agusta’s Lancia and spotted this. Pretty thing but probably alas no more.

[Speed 3]

Suspect not.

Agusta is a fascinating company. I spent a time in the helicopter business and trips to the old factories at Somma Lombardo and Cascina Costa and the flight test line at Vergiate were always a delight. Proper old school Italian Engineering & architecture. Never made it to the bike museum unfortunately.

[Eric Mc]

To be honest, it's a type I'd never come across. It was obviously never put into production.

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

To be honest, it's a type I'd never come across. It was obviously never put into production.

Speechless.

[Eric Mc]

Looking at the Wiki data, it says it first flew in June 1958 and carried 26 passengers. If that is the case you can see why it was never going to sell. It looks more like a 1948 design than one from 1958.

[JuniorD]

El stovey said:

Eric Mc said:

To be honest, it's a type I'd never come across. It was obviously never put into production.

Speechless.

Literally and figuratively:

Edited by JuniorD on Sunday 21st October 16:20