Webmaster just posted this on the “wot plane” thread:
I am going to have to close some of the larger threads due to performance issues. Feel free to open a new thread if required.
Cheers
Webmaster
So, I propose we do just that.
Moze, can you repost your latest challenge please?
If we agree we can ask a mod/webmaster to add a “rules in first post” note, as before.
The game rules:
A contributor posts a photograph of an aircraft to identify. Either use your own picture or be prepared to acknowledge its origin when finally identified (beware copyright).
The first forumite to identify the aircraft (confirmed by whoever posted the picture) gets the right to post the next one, and so on.
If he or she wishes to desist, “open house” is declared and anyone can post the next picture.
Only manned aircraft that have actually flown allowed, so no missiles/drones and no obscure unbuilt projects or flights of fancy.
A variant is to post a relatively well-known type but to ask a question as to when, where, why or who is in it.
Timing: in order not to block the thread for too long, if there is no sign of an answer or a guess within 48 hours, the poster should offer a clue. If nothing within another 24 hours, a second clue. 24 hours later the answer should be given and a new “wot plane” posted, this time as “open house”.
“Open house” automatically takes effect if the one with the right to post the next picture fails to do so 48 hours after confirmation by the previous poster.
OK, folks?
PS: over 4000 posts and a quarter of a million visits! Not bad! Thank you Mr Creosote for having the idea in the first place.
Bruce edit – As the old thread will disappear into the ether, it is linked here thus:
By: BlueRobin - 1st January 2013 at 14:15
Due to performance issues with larger threads, I will close this one and carry forward onto a new thread. Please continue on that one.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=121476
Cheers
BlueRobin
By: Lightning Mate - 31st December 2012 at 14:41
Good shooting aa.
The floor is all yours.
By: avion ancien - 30th December 2012 at 17:06
Guillemin JG.40?
By: Lightning Mate - 30th December 2012 at 16:55
No need to apologise – I don’t think it’s a repeat on this thread.
SC = Silhouette Challenge on PPRuNe.
New balls referee…
By: wilkofife - 30th December 2012 at 16:03
TNCA Azcarate E-1, indeed. Sorry if it was a duplicate (SC ?)
Over to you, LM
By: Lightning Mate - 30th December 2012 at 12:45
There was also a landplane version of this Mexican Sesquiplano E.
By: Lightning Mate - 30th December 2012 at 12:29
‘artnoon wk.
That, if I remember correctly, was posted on SC last summer.
It’s a foreign sesquiplane spelled differently – now looking….
By: wilkofife - 30th December 2012 at 11:19
My Photobucket is fine…..
Anyway, here’s a nice floater..
By: Lightning Mate - 29th December 2012 at 21:10
Thank you aa.
Photobucket is not functioning, so OH.
By: avion ancien - 29th December 2012 at 16:59
Yes, that’s the one – latterly F-PAOI.
I declined your first response, Lightning Mate, because the M.202 was a pure Mauboissin design that did not fly until 1941, some nine years after Louis Peyret and Pierre Mauboussin dissolved their partnership, and was powered by a much less powerful Régnier engine than was the M.201.
Now the mystery. Simples – where is it now? F-PAOI survived the war and was flying, albeit re-engined, at the time of the RSA National Rassemblement in 1986. It is still on the French civil register and has been registered to the Aéro Club de la Vallée du Thérain, at Mouy in Picardie, since 1991. But I do not believe that it has been seen – certainly not flying – for a long time and no-one seems to know where it now is. Do any of you?
Anyhow, over to you, Lightning Mate, for the next instalment.
By: Lightning Mate - 29th December 2012 at 11:20
Possibly the Mauboussin M.202 then?
By: avion ancien - 29th December 2012 at 10:25
You are very close, Lightning Mate, but for reasons that I will mention subsequently, I don’t feel that you are close enough to give you this one.
By: Lightning Mate - 29th December 2012 at 10:15
Good day all – I hope you had a good Christmas.
I believe this is the Peyret-Mauboussin M.201.
By: avion ancien - 28th December 2012 at 17:43
Thank you, Moze. The Bre. 690 was a light bomber prototype but the reason why I did not go for that is that its tailwheel arrangement appears to be significantly different. But there’s a common lineage in the Bre. 690/691/693/695.
Here’s a mystery ship. I’ll explain the mystery when someone’s identified the ship!
By: Moze - 28th December 2012 at 17:11
It was captioned the 690 (which was a fighter after further review- my apologies!)
Good show aa, close enough.
By: avion ancien - 28th December 2012 at 17:04
Breguet 691?
By: Moze - 28th December 2012 at 16:38
Bomber prototype-
By: wilkofife - 28th December 2012 at 07:29
Indeed it is the Seversky SEV-3M-WW. This one Colombian – actually an amphibian, which must have been a horror to have to put down on land.
Over to Texas.
By: Moze - 28th December 2012 at 05:32
Designed by a Russian, and then shipped off to Latin America and finally plying it’s craft in the Spanish Civil War. Naturally a USA effort, the Seversky SEV-3M.
By: wilkofife - 26th December 2012 at 23:19
We’ll continue the watery theme.
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