Guess the Aeroplane (just a bit of fun.)

pmsl @ Simon, nope am drawing a blank too- only one I could come up with was like Eric, a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch- googling added with " strange sticky out bit under fusalage" didn't help either ! :woohoo: :woohoo: stumped, but I never give up :evil:

ps "big flaps, drooped ailerons" came up with some VERY strange websites, not necessarily aeroplane related! :dry: :lol: :dry:

The engine screams Argus, the fin and rudder screams Arado, and its got me screaming too :woohoo:

OK!
Clearly similar to the Fieseler Storch so if you look that up in Wikipedia there is a list of comparable planes. it doesn't take long to identify it as a Messerschmitt Bf 163 built in 1935 to meet the same specification as the Storch.
Heavier and more complex with area increasing Fowler flaps and retractable leading edge slats, it even had variable wing incidence!

I had to doctor the pics as the German registration and the Swastika on the tail would have rather given it away! :lol:

Now adjustable wing incidence would be an interesting challenge.

I was just going to suggest the M.E. ye, right, fancy the answer being in the Wiky description :S nice one, what sadism can you inflict on us next then??

Try this one

It may not be quite so easy to find but if you persevere.

An interesting fact - It holds a unique record for the nation that built it.

awww flip! I did look at the Messerschmitt but only in a two second glance lol, then got distracted by something else :woohoo:

Does that mean you are easily distracted?
Far be it for me to suggest anything but............

rofl yup, put it this way- am mid way cleaning house, researching the liverpool care pathway, making dinner ....and am on here now reading up on rubber motor planes haha! When my OCD kicks in badly it can be a bit of a pain, I can end up with about 50 pages of internet going following on from each other and usually ending up at something completely different to what I started with!!

Will start looking for this plane after the above is finished... those are hugeeeeeeeee wings! or is it just the angle of the shot?

It must have big wings for a reason. :whistle:

Quorneng wrote: It must have big wings for a reason. :whistle:

Would that be high altitude or high load ? ..... doesn't hold 5000 chinese over the Tibetan mountains does it? :lol:

I don't think it ever flew that high. :whistle:

The nose profile and wing plan-form give it away - it's a one-off ultra-high altitude Spit, built for PR work.

The earlier Fairey Long Range monoplane had a similar layout and gained a distance record for the RAF.

So you know roughly what to look for!

I loveeeeeeee the video!!! thank you I should have been born in the 1920's

Oh! I though you w.............on second thoughts perhaps not! :whistle: