September 17, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Can anyone please identify this aircraft?
It is a photo that was in our hotel room last night at Farnborough.
they look like Leonides engnes to me but I`m guessing really!
Pete
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th September 2011 at 20:02
i/d
I’m a bit late to this one but it’s definitely DC-7.
All (production and currently flying) 7’s did have 4-blade props (Wright R-3350 engines) as opposed to the 3-bladers of the DC-6 (P&W R-2800’s)
The big giveaway is the carb intake long rear fairing (the one on top of the cowling) as opposed to the 6’s shorter unit.
Luvverly stuff – thanks for posting the pics all!
Anon.
By: MerlinPete - 18th September 2011 at 11:08
Excellent, thank you.
For some reason I thought it was British.
I wouldn`t have expected them to have a spinner.
Pete
By: HP81 - 18th September 2011 at 09:15
Now you’re just showing off Keith:D:D
By: keithnewsome - 18th September 2011 at 01:57
From my recent flights on DC-7B N836D, hope these can help ??
Keith 🙂


By: HP81 - 17th September 2011 at 23:44
I thought that it was the case that all DC-7’s had 4 bladed props?
dairwin, thank you for pointing out the stub, I now think that this is in fact a DC-7.
There is this picture here http://www.enginehistory.org/wright_aero.shtml
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th September 2011 at 23:43
Stub?
By: J Boyle - 17th September 2011 at 23:27
As we see, some DC-6s had prop spinners, and not all DC-7s had 4 bladed props…so there goes my formerly foolproof ID method. :rolleyes:
By: Jon H - 17th September 2011 at 22:49
DC6 I reckon –

EDIT – whilst googling for a suitable picture HP81 beat me to it! 😀
Jon
By: HP81 - 17th September 2011 at 22:38
Looks like a DC-6 to me.
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th September 2011 at 22:37
DC-7. (?)
DAI