The Secret Projects Quiz Game

[gTg]

So here is my try, guess it will not last long.

 

[Arjen]

It was actually relatively easy, "Ringwing airplane" in google brings 3 pics of it in the first 2 lines of results.

That's sort of how I found it. Never claimed it was hard

I guess it's now up to me?

Yep. Take it away.
<edit> I see you just did. Nice one.

 

[gTg]

Curious myself about the one i posted.
I have two possible names for it, so it is probably a case for the forum specialists.

 

[Arjen]

Henri Farman and Ernest Archdeacon, Ghent, Belgium, May 29(/30?)th 1908 in a Henri Farman 1bis (modified Voisin-Farman 1bis)

From wiki:

Ernest Archdeacon is widely cited as the first aeroplane passenger in Europe when he was piloted by Henry Farman at Ghent on 29 May 1908. The total flight was 1,241 m (4,072 ft). Charles E. Vivian says he was preceded on 29 March by Leon Delagrange, who was also flown by Farman.

I recognised Henri Farman in the bearded gentleman on the left.

 

[gTg]

Excellent!
It is indeed different to the one exposed in the musée de l'air.
I guess this makes it then a "Farman 1bis" and not a "Voisin-Farman 1bis"

 

[Arjen]

This is a picture of two models, to the same scale. One of them represents a Boeing 707. At least two forum members should be able to identify the other model.

 

[Maveric]

Slingsby CAMCO V-Liner.

 

[Arjen]

Make that three. Maveric, well done.

 

[Maveric]

A new one...

 

[sienar]

......

 

[Arjen]

A new one...

Albatros-Pietschker racing biplane.
Found here: http://chezpeps.free.fr/0/pre-1914/01-1_50-copy_paste_Breguet-Pre-1914-Aircraft-Challenge.html entry 018

Albatros SZ 1 sport biplane with 70 hp Gnôme, built for Alfred Pietschker in 1911. Span 10 m, max. speed 85 km/h .

 

[Arjen]

......

French built Zodiac MBZ-3, German markings are interesting.

Found here:

http://www.airships.narod.ru/germ_wwii/germ_air.html
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=22422.0

 

[Maveric]

Albatros SZ.1 is correct

 

[Stargazer]

Arjen, you found two, you need to share at least one mystery plane now!

 

[Arjen]

On your marks...

 

[Richard N]

Pond Racer designed by Rutan

 

[Arjen]

Over to you.

 

[Stargazer]

Arf... Of course I could tell this one straightaway! There ought to be a law against posting at working hours... ROTFL

 

[Arjen]

I thought I'd post something more recent.

 

[Arjen]

Again. On your marks, get set...

 

[Bill Walker]

The control yokes look very British. Windshield is too big for a Concorde, maybe a DH Trident?

 

[robunos]

The control yokes look very British. Windshield is too big for a Concorde, maybe a DH Trident?

Talked yourself out of it...
Four throttles, so four engines, 'ram's horn' control yokes, Andre Turcat in the left seat, Brian Trubshaw in the right...
Prototype Concorde, with the nose/visor down...

cheers,
Robin.

 

[Bill Walker]

Ah, forgot about the visor. With the visor up there were several vertical structural members not in your photo.

 

[Arjen]

The control yokes look very British. Windshield is too big for a Concorde, maybe a DH Trident?

Talked yourself out of it...
Four throttles, so four engines, 'ram's horn' control yokes, Andre Turcat in the left seat, Brian Trubshaw in the right...
Prototype Concorde, with the nose/visor down...

cheers,
Robin.

Take it away, Robin.
Concorde 002 at Toulouse.

<edit> Turcat, Trubshaw, Concorde - well done!

 

[robunos]

It was 'Trubby' that gave it away...his nose is as distinctive as the Concorde's... :

Try this one, should be easy...

cheers,
Robin.

 

[robunos]

Ah, forgot about the visor. With the visor up there were several vertical structural members not in your photo.

Don't forget, the two prototype Concordes, 001 and 002, originally had metal visors with no forward vision at all...

cheers,
Robin.

 

[Stargazer]

Try this one, should be easy...

That's more in my league... Huff-Daland HB-1 Cyclops.

 

[CJGibson]

One for the tankies. How many barrels can you identify?

 

[Rickshaw]

20 or 21 in the two photos. All are WWII German I suspect.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Try this one.

 

[jstar]

1977 Rifleman's Assault Weapon. 1kg HESH warhead.

 

[Grey Havoc]

You got it! To be more precise, the Brunswick Rifleman's Assault Weapon (RAW). One of the more (unfairly one could argue) obscure weapons of the late Cold War period. Originally developed by the U.S. Army, but dropped in their ill-fated desire to get the FGR-17 Viper into service. The USMC procured a number of examples and used them with some success in Panama. The end of the Cold War frustrated further Marine Corps purchases however.