The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Thank yoy Kevin! Any registration visinle on your DoubleEnder?
New challenge. Not military despite tail star. Younger than pic may suggest.

 

[wout]

Please allow me to withdraw the previous challenge. Further research leads me to believe it is not what I thought it was.
I happily replace the challenge with the attached new challenge. Look carefully and you may recognize parts of other aircraft.

 

[Green]

Look carefully and you may recognize parts of other aircraft.

Fascinating! We're back in the USSR, (with both photos)? Is it a combination of "Colt", "Clod" and possibly "Hare" or "Hoplite?"

Dunno what it is, but I like it!

 

[wout]

Hi Mr. Green
You are very close. Russia it is (around 1991 so it would be Russia and not USSR). Developed by a club in the Krasnodar Region. Have seen it called Challenger and SKh-2 (CX-2 in Russian). Seems the plane was intended for agricultural work/transport and can be considered a "homebuilt". Depending on the site, designer is named as Mr. A.N. Kopeikin or as Alexander Nikolayevich (a former AF pilot, so he may have been the test pilot), Fuselage, tailboom and u/c came from a Mil Mi-2 heli (Hoplite), tailfeathers from an An-2 (Colt) and wings were either self design or came from an Let L-410 twin. Also reports on parts/components of aircraft such as the PZL-104 Wilga, Yak-18T. Engines were two 360hp M-14s (Ivchenko AI-14).

Your turn, please!

 

[Green]

That's very generous of you Wout - especially since I couldn't locate a name!

So thanks, and here's the next...

 

[lefty]

The very attractive Gweduck from the West Coast. My ideal aircraft - but the kit at $350,000 just a tad beyond my piggybank !

 

[Green]

Nicely done Lefty! Over to you mate!

 

[lefty]

Something different -

 

[Green]

The Sukhoi T-49.

 

[lefty]

That's it, G.

 

[Green]

Thanks Lefty!

 

[Dev One]

Crumbs....I was way off beam.....looked Mcdonnell-ish initially!
Keith

 

[pomme homme]

..... and there was me thinking that I know that it's a jet, but beyond that ..... !

 

[Green]

OK - time to end this one I think.

It was another Sukhoi, the experimental T-5 with twin Tumansky engines.

Cheers.

OPEN HOUSE

 

[lefty]

Didn't realise it was another post, G !

Anyway, we'll keep it rolling along - here's a rather comely utility machine - doubtless to be snapped up in minutes !

 

[Green]

Didn't realise it was another post, G !

That's OK L. I'll do a better job of introducing the next one should this be correct....

 

[lefty]

Just what I thought - under an hour - ah well - over to G-land.....

 

[Green]

Thanks Lefty.

Here's the next one...

 

[lefty]

Looks like a Mig 17/19 hybrid - strange tubby fuselage - most Russian machines built like drainpipes - odd canopy too.....probably miles off-beam here....

 

[Green]

You're on the right track Lefty. In the photo above it's just been released from a Tupolev Tu-4. Unlike the F-104 Starfighter, this really is a "missile with a man in it".

Here it is on the ground...