Can You Identify These Aircraft from Limited Clues?

[Kurdt]

Qu16: Looks a bit like the nose of a MIG 29 (or is it 25?) ut I'm not sure that would be in a USAF museum.

 

[Cyrus]

No, its a B-1b

 

[Kurdt]

Oh well. Its just that distinctive heat shielded kind of nose thing that I picked up on.

 

[FredGarvin]

Hey, that's not a 707's engine is it?

IIRC, the JT8's had bypass.

http://www.pratt-whitney.com/about_history_classic_jt3d.asp

 

[Cyrus]

They are simliar to a 52, very very low bypass turbojets.

 

[Bystander]

Q15: (double check #) J31.

 

[FredGarvin]

Q15: I'm waiting for hint #2 on this one. That inlet nose is driving me nuts.

 

[Bystander]

Smaller and wimpier than a J35, less primitive than a Whittle --- 'tis a puzzler.

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 15 Clue II : A much more telling view. But compressed for difficulty.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6189/img2285ey6.jpg

Perhaps, not enough!

 

[Gokul43201]

Cyrus has 3 points for the lancer.

Have I missed anyone? Sometime soon, I'll post cumulative scores...perhaps when I think we're about midway.

 

[Cyrus]

The good ole days, eh boys?

http://www.flightpaths.com.au/gfx/content_preview/jet_engine.gif

 

[Cyrus]

Took some digging.

Is it a J57?

http://www.stratofortress.de/image/j57_02.jpg

I pulled a fred, what can I say, I have no shame either.

Source:http://www.stratofortress.de/j57.html

 

[Bystander]

J79 ; I got to stop scaling things from connectors and cables.

 

[Cyrus]

Good job, well earned.

 

[Gokul43201]

Right ho, Bystander. It's straight out of a Phantom, I think (and the Vigilante's had them too, no?).

2 points on that one.

Q 17 Clue I: Identify this piece of history.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/7956/img2398wb0.jpg

 

[Bystander]

Little Boy

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 18 Clue I: Identify

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/8913/img2350la1.jpg

 

[Gokul43201]

Little Boy

Wow! That was the first time I saw it - never even saw a picture of it before.

Bystander - 3 more.

 

[Cyrus]

sikorski s-55

Edit: Ugly, like fred.

 

[Gokul43201]

sikorski s-55

Very close. It's actually the UH-19, but S-55 is good enough for 3 points.

Time to make it a little tough again...

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 19 Clue I: Identify this early participant in the Race.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2318/img2138wp8.jpg

 

[Cyrus]

Your clue leaves me clueless. Please elaborate on what you mean by "the race" there were many races in avaiations history.

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 20 Clue I: Whose innards are these?

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2179/img2269mt1.jpg

 

[Gokul43201]

Your clue leaves me clueless. Please elaborate on what you mean by "the race" there were many races in avaiations history.

Many races in aviation history; two big Races in modern World history.

 

[Cyrus]

F-86 sabre

 

[Bystander]

Vanguard I

 

[Gokul43201]

F-86 sabre

Correct, for 3 points.

 

[Bystander]

Q18: Cheated --- that's so obscure as to be ridiculous. See if Fred gets it on "1."

 

[Danger]

Re: Q18... I've never seen anything like that, so I've got to go for a (semi)educated guess. Since it's gold-plated, it's obviously intended for space applications; that opinion is also based upon the 'space race' that was going on when I was a mere child. My guess, although it doesn't look like one, is that it's the rear view of an early prototype space helmet.

 

[FredGarvin]

sikorski s-55

Edit: Ugly, like fred.

Amatueur. It's a Chickasaw. Geeze. The differences are glaring.

 

[FredGarvin]

Q18: Not a friggin' clue.

 

[Bystander]

Q18: save the second clue --- I'll take my 2 pts. for "Corona film cannister," or "Corona film recovery cannister."

 

[Gokul43201]

Q18: save the second clue --- I'll take my 2 pts. for "Corona film cannister," or "Corona film recovery cannister."

That's good for 2 points. The thing in the object is a Discoverer satellite, one of the early successes of the Corona Project. Also, being Discoverer XIV, it is the first satellite to be ejected by an orbiting spave vehicle and recovered in mid-air. Upon re-entry, it deployed a parachute which was successfully snagged by a C-119.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/294/img2141oi8.jpg

I thought the obscurity of this one would be at least somewhat alleviated by its being in the news last year, when the Corona Engineers were awarded the NAE's Draper Prize.

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 21 Clue I: Identify

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6194/img2301wg7.jpg

(thought I'd posted this a few minutes ago, but either it's disappeared or I'm imagining things)

 

[Gokul43201]

(update, till Q20)

[u]SCORES[/u] :

Bystander      16
Cyrus          27
Fred           10
Kurdt          3

Note: There were question numbers that were messed up. They've now been fixed. I believe these scores are correct.