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Sep
12
2016
Pushing the Boundaries
Posted by HW on 12 Sep 2016 /
7 Comments
This Week’s Hints to help you along:
- Designed at war using captured Nazi jet engines.
- Paved the way to 30 years of design development.
- Delayed as the factory didn’t know metal fabrication.
- Over a year of work before it was abandoned.
So do you know what this aircraft is?
Post a REPLY below with your best guess!
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7 Comments
Randy O. Bowling
10 yearss ago
Guessing:
Prototype of an X-15. or the B-58 Hustler.
R.O.B./
Thomas Puckey
10 yearss ago
That’s an early Russian experimental Yak.
John Guzman
10 yearss ago
Looks like an experimental version of a Yak-50, c.1949. I say experimental because the few pics of the Yak-50 I’ve seen have a different intake config (more like the MiG-15 or F-86). However, Randy may be on the right track.
Ken Helmig
10 yearss ago
I think that is either a MiG-17 prototype or a CHICOM L-9 prototype.
Douglas Hanisch
10 yearss ago
Lavochkin La-200.
NostraThomas
9 yearss ago
Lavochkin La-200.
Russian, probably a MiG, but I’m not sure.