Yup,
You’ve been wondering… Where is it? Your life seemed empty… (Not likely, but this is advertising) So here it is!
Identify the aircraft, extra points for location, serial, registration, pilot’s name, nickname, nationality, and any other trivia.
Go.
By: contrailjj - 27th June 2006 at 02:05
I’ve gotta toss my 2 cents in… I’ll go waaayyyy out on a limb here… XP-54 Swoose Goose
By: BIGVERN1966 - 26th June 2006 at 22:19
Stab in the dark for this one, but its the only one that I know of that looks close. A big CAT, Grumman F9F-2 Panther. MEOWWWWWW
By: BIGVERN1966 - 26th June 2006 at 21:59
P-59 NOT!!!!!
By: robmac - 26th June 2006 at 21:08
That looks like the front of a Douglas A20 Havoc.
By: PaulR - 26th June 2006 at 21:02
Ah darn! I was thinking that but said to myself, no not that one go for the Shooting Star. I’ll be gutted if I lose out. Gutted!
By: sea vixen - 26th June 2006 at 20:38
looks like a Bell P-59 Airacomet to me… thats a name i havnt heard in a while… 😉
By: JDK - 26th June 2006 at 14:15
Twin or single turbine?
Can’t be the Ryan Fireball, surely?
Bell (X) P-59?
By: PaulR - 26th June 2006 at 10:36
P-80 Shooting Star?
By: FMK.6JOHN - 25th June 2006 at 18:19
T33A?
By: BIGVERN1966 - 25th June 2006 at 08:51
Canberra B8(I)
By: JDK - 25th June 2006 at 07:35
OK Mike,
US or UK?
By: Feather #3 - 25th June 2006 at 07:25
For one berko minute there Wardie, I thought you thought you’d posted a PR version of the Meteor!?? 😮
However, calm is now restored. 🙂
G’day 😉
By: wardie - 25th June 2006 at 04:31
That’s right Mike J.
Obviously too easy!!!!
I’ll have to dig through my archives when I get home later and do some cropping/disguising of the source. Still may not be too hard but I’ll try to see what I can do.
Wardie
By: JDK - 25th June 2006 at 03:46
Ah, but Mike, you were too clever for your own good. Meteor (Gloster) was correct, but George Hale’s Halestorm was the question I didn’t ask… 😉
By: wardie - 25th June 2006 at 03:05
Ok, I’ll give it a whirl. Can anyone tell me what this old girl is?
Wardie
By: JDK - 25th June 2006 at 02:09
Hmmm? Wuzzup? Time for Sunday morning coffee here.
Oh! Good, someone’s got it right.
Rob L gets a couplea points, Wardie clears the deck (Darren’s from Alberta, Canada, for the real detail fans) and gets an extra point for clarifying why it’s painted as -851. Big Vern gets Sgt Major points for trying to keep the troops in order! 😀
Someone else (Wardie?) can have a go if they want. I’ve still got coffee to drink.
Well done all.
By: wardie - 25th June 2006 at 01:21
It’s painted as Halestorm but is actually “Winston” ex UK.
By: TobyV - 25th June 2006 at 00:54
Is that acutally -851 or just painted to look like it? IIRC -851 was the one that downed a MiG-15 during the Korean War?
By: ALBERT ROSS - 25th June 2006 at 00:49
Looks like we’ve cracked it…….shhh, don’t wake James up?
By: wardie - 25th June 2006 at 00:39
I think that it would be Meteor F.8 VZ467 VH-MBX flown by ex F-18 driver Darren “Buster” Crab who is Canadian by birth. Location would be Temora NSW, Australia.
Wardie
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