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Now there's one I would have loved to see make it into production. Vought only made two of them, though, I don't know that that counts as produced.....
I read that they were so sturdy that when the Navy scrapped them, they had to use a wrecking ball to do it.

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Did you know that you can own a piece of the flapjack history? M.A.L. hobbies in Irving TX has ALL of the balsa that was bought by Vought to build the flapjack


But NO

Please identify for me an aircraft that was:

Twin engined
Had STOL capability
Was produced along side the Corsair
Versions of this aircraft served from before WW-II (sorry mistyped last night) up in to the erly 60's.
only ONE was ever lost in combat!

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OK a Thursday morning clue:

Please identify for me an aircraft that was:

Twin engined
Had STOL capability
Was produced along side the Corsair
Versions of this aircraft served from before WW-II (sorry mistyped last night) up in to the erly 60's.
only ONE was ever lost in combat!
The cockpit hung from the rest of the structure by a set of cables.

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K-Class blimps, built by Goodyear, which also built FG Corsairs. One K-class blimp was shot down.

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Correct the Goodyear K though M class blimps

Well Done AL!

Ok stump us!

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The hanging cockpit gave it away.

Here's my question, which I think is easy especially for those of us that build plastic models, too). During WWII, the US national insignia changed frequently, with red being deleted and bars being added. One thing that remained almost constant, though, was the use of insignia white and insignia blue colors (sometimes plus red, sometimes not). There was, however, one exception, not officially authorized until 1946 but used before that. What was it?

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swag ... red bar inside of the side bars ..

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Nope: the red bar came after the war.

Another hint: Navy.

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The silowetted (sp?) white star and bar on the DK Navy blue upper surfaces? In essence the official blue portions of the national markings were left off the aircraft.

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That's it. Grumman just started painting them that way and the Navy made it official a year or so later. It wouldn't have made any sense to go to the trouble of painting insignia blue over dark sea blue just to comply with the rules. (I believe some night fighters painted black had all-white insignia, too, but I haven't found a reference.)

You're up again, Major T!

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Ok please name for me a plane which

Waa a single seat
three engined
Bomber

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Well, one comes to mind pretty quickly; the radio controlled version of the Italian SM.79. Thanks; Ernie P.

The Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero (Italian for "Sparrowhawk") was a three-engined Italian medium bomber with a wood and metal structure. Originally designed as a fast passenger aircraft, this low-wing monoplane, in the years 1937–39, set 26 world records that qualified it for some time as the fastest medium bomber in the world.[1] It first saw action during the Spanish Civil War and flew on all fronts in which Italy was involved during World War II.[2] It became famous and achieved many successes as a torpedo bomber in the Mediterranean theater.[3] The SM.79 was an outstanding aircraft and was certainly the best known Italian aeroplane of World War II.[2] It was easily recognizable due to its distinctive fuselage dorsal "hump", and was well liked by its crews who nicknamed it Gobbo Maledetto ("damned hunchback").[4] It was the most widely produced Italian bomber of World War II, with some 1,300 built, remaining in Italian service until 1952.

Radio controlled flying bombIn 1942 General Ferdinando Raffaelli came up with the idea of packing an SM.79 with explosives and a radio control device. On 12 August 1942, as the Operation Pedestal convoy was steaming off the Algerian coast, a SM.79 drone, a Z.1007bis guide plane and an escort of five FIAT G.50 fighters flew out to intercept it. Once the pilot of the SM.79 had set his aircraft on a course toward the Allied ships he bailed out, leaving the Z.1007bis crew to guide the flying bomb the rest of the way by radio. The radio controls malfunctioned and with nothing to guide it the SM.79 drone cruised along until it ran out of fuel and crashed into Mount Khenchela on the Algerian mainland. Raffaelli later developed a simpler single-engined guided bomb, the Ambrosini A.R.4, which was tested in June 1943, but the armistice intervened before it could go into production.[34]

Another proposal suggested using a parasite Macchi C.202 coupled with a SM.79 or A.R.4 in an arrangement similar to the German Mistel, but with the fighter remotely guiding the bomber to its target.

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Blohm und Voss P 170?


Ahh, my bad, too much time on Luft '46......

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Ahh no to both

Happy and safe Veterans Day to all my comrads in arms

Besides the above it had an H shaped tail

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I second the sentiments, MajorTomski. On this day above all others, our men and women in service deserve our respect and support. My father, my sons, my daughter and I all wore the uniform; and feel honored to have had the opportunity to serve. Thanks; Ernie P.

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How about the one man version of the Z.1007? Not all of them had twin tails, I realize; and most of them had several crew members. But there weren't a lot of operational three engine bombers, outside the Italians. Thanks; Ernie P.


The Z.1007 had a standard monoplane configuration, with a mid-set wing, single tail, retractable undercarriage and a crew of five or six. It had a wooden structure and a clean shape that was much more aerodynamic than the competing SM.79. The Z.1007 had three engines, with one engine in the nose and two in the wings. The trimotor design was a common feature of Italian aircraft of World War II. The aircraft had a slim fuselage as the two pilots sat in tandem rather than side-by-side as in most bombers of the period. Visibility was good and the aircraft was almost a "three-engine fighter". This slimness reduced drag but also worsened the task of the two pilots. The aft pilot had reduced instruments and visibility and so had difficulty flying and landing the machine if needed; he was almost an 'emergency' pilot. Like most trimotor Italian aircraft of the period the Z.1007 suffered from poor defensive armament, poor engine reliability and poor power-to-weight ratio due to low powered engines. The Z.1007 also suffered longitudinal stability problems that were partly rectified later by the adoption of a twin tail arrangement. The Z.1007's wooden structure suffered cracks, separations and surface delamination due to the difficult climatic conditions in North Africa and Russia. The surface delamination and deformation greatly added to the aircraft drag.[citation needed] A total of 660 Alciones were built.

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Sorry Ernie not that one either

Waa a single seat
three engined
Bomber
Had an H shaped tail
The bomb aiming device was an organic computer

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Ok I'lll make it easier


Waa a single seat
three engined
Bomber
Had an H shaped tail
The bomb aiming device was an organic computer
Over 800 were built.
It;s only operational use/ debute was a total failure.

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Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka

Nice.

Organic computer kinda gave it away....

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Organic computer kinda gave it away....
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What is a Organic computer ?????
Joe

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What is a Organic computer ?????
Joe
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There is only one operational organic computer... the human brain. What MajorTomski was saying, in his own way, was that the pilot aimed the bomber using only his eyes. Thanks; Ernie P.

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There is only one operational organic computer... the human brain. What MajorTomski was saying, in his own way, was that the pilot aimed the bomber using only his eyes. Thanks; Ernie P.
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Oh' the Old "Mark One EYE Ball"
Joe

found this on Organic Computer
Computing

Wetware computer (or organic computer), a computer built from living neurons and ganglions
Organic computing, computing systems with properties of self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection
Organic search, search results through unpaid search engine listings, rather than through paid advertisements
Organic search engine, search engine which uses a combination of human operators and computer algorithms
Organic semiconductor, an organic compound that exhibits similar properties to inorganic semiconductors
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The OHKA is correct.

Take it away A65l

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I am also looking for an airplane.

1. Although built in relatively small numbers, it has had a very long operational carreer, although the country it last served with is not the country it was designed for
2. Only a few of these aircraft were actually built in the contry which with which it is usually associated
3. In its operational career, this aircraft has been powered by three different types of internal combustion engines, utilizing three completly different types of fuel

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Zeppelins? The American rigid aiships were designed by the German Zeppelin co. if I remember correctly. As for the different fuels, I know some were diesel,some were probably petrol,and maybe methanol?
Just a guess..
Thanks
Zipp