Can You Identify These Aircraft from Limited Clues?

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In summary, Gokul posted two pictures of aircraft, one with a stealth plane in it and one with a paramecium. Respondent B correctly guessed the stealth plane. Respondent C guessed the paramecium, and Respondent D guessed the Northrop B-2 Spirit. Gokul posted the next clue, which was a picture of a satellite. Respondent E guessed the correct satellite, a Russian Soyuz. Respondent B guessed the next aircraft, the B-2. Respondent D guessed the Northrop B-2 Spirit again. Gokul posted the last clue, which was a picture of a person. Respondent A guessed the correct person, Kapische?.
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Snark missile
 
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FredGarvin said:
That's a Pratt & Whitney afterburner. Since it's next to the Raptor I'll also say that it's the vectored thrust assembly.
Silly me - should have clipped the picture more.

That pic is the back view of the entire F119. Here's another view:

http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/571/img2314lu7.jpg

And the hazy mammoth is the Stratofortress - 6 points.
 
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Gokul43201 said:
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[u]TOP SCORES[/u] :

Bystander      17
Cyrus          27
Fred           10

Got a "muff" in here somewhere --- 18x3 = 54, minus 1 for 2nd on j79 minus 1 for 2nd on Corona minus 2 on Iron Mike = 50 possible; I'm at 16. I'll let Fred and Cyrus fight out the partitioning of the other 34.
 
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Bystander said:
Got a "muff" in here somewhere --- 18x3 = 54, minus 1 for 2nd on j79 minus 1 for 2nd on Corona minus 2 on Iron Mike = 50 possible; I'm at 16. I'll let Fred and Cyrus fight out the partitioning of the other 34.
I'm easy. Give them to Cyrus. He needs the emotional support that more points will bring him.BTW... this is the best thread EVER.
 
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FredGarvin said:
I'm easy. Give them to Cyrus. He needs the emotional support that more points will bring him.


BTW... this is the best thread EVER.

I was at work. I just came back online to see all these easy pictures posted and I missed them!

Oh well, someone has to take the pitty points, right fred? I hope that Jane's book is coming in handy.
 
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Bystander said:
Got a "muff" in here somewhere --- 18x3 = 54, minus 1 for 2nd on j79 minus 1 for 2nd on Corona minus 2 on Iron Mike = 50 possible; I'm at 16. I'll let Fred and Cyrus fight out the partitioning of the other 34.
I'd messed up a couple of question numbers before. There were in fact 20 questions completed at this point. I'd accidentally repeated numbers twice. The question numbers have all been fixed now.

Bystander, you score's been corrected. Kurdt's 3 points have been added to the scores. That fixes the balance sheet, I think.
 
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FredGarvin said:
It's the rocket engine from the Bell X-1. I can't remember the name of it though.
Nicely done! My second clue was planned roughly along those lines (pointing to Chuck Yeager or the X-series).

It's the XLR-11. Good enough for me.

Fred gets 3.
 
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RQ-3 Darkstar
 
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Erm I think my three points could possibly be kindly donated between the three contenders seeing as I'm clearly not in the running :smile:
 
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Bystander said:
RQ-3 Darkstar

I think its an x-45b

The darkstar has a straight trailing edge.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/rq3a.jpg
Clearly, not a darkstar.

X-45B-s.jpg

X-45b
 
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Between Gokul's camera work and my bifocals, there is no such thing as a straight line.
 
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These UCAVs really look like UFO's, eh?

There all ugly, like fred, IMO.
 
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cyrusabdollahi said:
I think its an x-45b

The darkstar has a straight trailing edge.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/rq3a.jpg
Clearly, not a darkstar.

X-45B-s.jpg

X-45b
X-45b? ehhhhhh! Could you be any more WRONG?

Q26: It's an X-36.
 
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  • #163
Supply an answer, you loser.
 
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AhA! Its an x-36

I knew that front had to be a canard system!

x-36-1223642.jpg
 
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Last Edited by Fred Garvin: Today 09:00 pm
 
  • #166
That's BS you cheated, I don't know how, but you cheated!
 
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cyrusabdollahi said:
That's BS you cheated, I don't know how, but you cheated!
LOL! They used one of our engines for those flight tests.
 
  • #168
You sir, can rot!
 
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What wing is it parked underneath?
 
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Q27: A space thingie.
 
  • #173
No clue, nexxxxxxxxt!

A trash can w/windows?

An escape pod? I don't know...
 
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It looks very Jules Verne-esque.
 

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