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That Tempo G1200 in front has an interesting paint scheme on the bonnet. Was that a standard German practice for high -vis on airfield vehicles. As it was 4X4 (one engine at back and one at front) I wonder if it was used as a light aircraft tractor.

Definitely the FW: the He177 had two separate undercarriage legs on each side and would have been severely struggling with just two BMW801s. As indeed was the Fw191: the Bomber B requirements really called for the Jumo 222 but it wasn’t available – it never was in significant numbers.

I’d go with the FW.. thanks all (not my area, German twins)

FW 191?

http://www.luft46.com/prototyp/fw191.html

Certainly the outsize undercarriage would point in that direction.

I’d say one of the Heinkel HE 177 Grief variants?

Hallelujah!

As stated above, there is only one surviving genuine P-64 and that is the one in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh. There have been numerous T-6 conversions to represent the NA-50/P-64 but none that are really accurate.

There is one surviving P-64, and this isn’t it.

It’s an SNJ-4 built to resemble a P-64, according to a post in another forum, quoting a picture caption from Classic Wings from a CAF show at Midland 2005. It was in regards to a post about a french rebuild, that wasn’t a P-64 either.

I did a bit of checking through my billions of books as well thinking it might have been a Curtis prototype or even a Serversky P-35 but the shap is all wrong, the P-35 had a very bulborus fusalage, same tail though.

NA-50

According to my “bible”, the Aerofiles web site, this is an NA-50 in Peru.

It goes like this.

“I’ve got a T-6, but I think it’s Boooring. What can I do? I know, I’ll convert it to something more interesting…”

Harvard based “NA-50” ‘replica’. Nothing wrong with the idea, but no longer a T-6, and not what it’s trying to pretend to be either.

There was a Harvard based ‘Wirraway’ on the US circuit for a while. It wasn’t a Wirraway, and it wasn’t a T-6 any more; neither horse nor donkey, it was a mule.

the tailwheel assembly looks SO much like our Harvard IV.. 😉

Indeed. I’d missed those 2 pics as I’d only searched for P-64 on Anet…

thanks to google 🙂 seems this is a NA-50. some more:
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=North%20American%20NA-50&distinct_entry=true

there is a p-64 on this site:
http://groupeaeronefs.free.fr/reci09.htm
but it’s transformed in a Hellcat :-s
several more weird “conversions” on that site

Just checked through my fully illustrated “Fighters of the USAF” and there is nothing exactly like this, for example the P-64 fin is triangular and more like that of the T-6. I agree with Mr McKay.
By the way, only six P-64s were built, for export to Siam, but were confiscated by the US Army, armament removed and placed in service as trainers at Luke Field, Arizona.

M.M. .The project was featured in one of the U.K. mags as well and there is stuff on it on the internet if anybody wants to track it down. It could possibly be this item I think.

To hopefully end a disagreement, I thought I’d come here for a definitive answer to…

What’s this… (I’m 100% sure I know – just need some back up!)

😀

Thanks 🙂

I doubt that it is either a genuine P64 or one of its predecessors the NA-50A or the NA-68. It appears to be a rather crude rebuild of a AT-6 (Harvard) Another clue is the trailing edge of the rudder, to resemble the single seater fighter variant. The clue to this is in the length and structure of the canopy.

Was gonna say a Boomerang – but it’s not short/stocky enough.