Can You Identify These Aircraft from Limited Clues?

[FredGarvin]

Q12: Iron Mike. Mascot of the 317th Fighter/Intercept Squadron. Damn that one was tough. I had no idea.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/vietnam/im.jpg

 

[Gokul43201]

Twice correct. Fred gets 4 points.

Iron Mike is supposedly something of a legend; read the story below.

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2332/img2260uq6.jpg

 

[Cyrus]

Can we have a rule, if you don't know what it is, don't google it...

I could have starting googling for an answer too...

I have answered what I KNOW.

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 15 Clue I : Identify the engine.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/5177/img2277it1.jpg

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 16 Clue I : Identify

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4800/img2211ed5.jpg

Tough angle, but maybe not tough enough.

 

[Cyrus]

B-1b bomber.

 

[Cyrus]

Q 15 Clue I : Identify the engine.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/5177/img2277it1.jpg

Turbo-jet of a B-52?

<shrug, its some kind of turbojet>

 

[FredGarvin]

Can we have a rule, if you don't know what it is, don't google it...

I could have starting googling for an answer too...

I have answered what I KNOW.

 

[Cyrus]

Yeah, use your janes book and google Mr. know-it-all...pffft.

I thought you played with honor, I was wrong.

 

[FredGarvin]

Yeah, use your janes book and google Mr. know-it-all...pffft.

I thought you played with honor, I was wrong.

Up until Iron Mike, I was. I hate leaving things unanswered.

 

[Cyrus]

Yeah, sure. "Up until"

 

[FredGarvin]

Q15: No bypass...kinda small, weird internal spinner...I'm waiting until the next clue.

 

[Cyrus]

B-52 is not a high bypass engine, but this engine looks too small for a 52.

 

[Cyrus]

Hey, that's not a 707's engine is it?

 

[Danger]

That's a weird-looking sucker, alright. Reminds me of something that I saw on a Vickers once, from the 50's or 60's...

 

[Kurdt]

Qu16: Looks a bit like the nose of a MIG 29 (or is it 25?) ut I'm not sure that would be in a USAF museum.

 

[Cyrus]

No, its a B-1b

 

[Kurdt]

Oh well. Its just that distinctive heat shielded kind of nose thing that I picked up on.

 

[FredGarvin]

Hey, that's not a 707's engine is it?

IIRC, the JT8's had bypass.

http://www.pratt-whitney.com/about_history_classic_jt3d.asp

 

[Cyrus]

They are simliar to a 52, very very low bypass turbojets.

 

[Bystander]

Q15: (double check #) J31.

 

[FredGarvin]

Q15: I'm waiting for hint #2 on this one. That inlet nose is driving me nuts.

 

[Bystander]

Smaller and wimpier than a J35, less primitive than a Whittle --- 'tis a puzzler.

 

[Gokul43201]

Q 15 Clue II : A much more telling view. But compressed for difficulty.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6189/img2285ey6.jpg

Perhaps, not enough!

 

[Gokul43201]

Cyrus has 3 points for the lancer.

Have I missed anyone? Sometime soon, I'll post cumulative scores...perhaps when I think we're about midway.

 

[Cyrus]

The good ole days, eh boys?

http://www.flightpaths.com.au/gfx/content_preview/jet_engine.gif

 

[Cyrus]

Took some digging.

Is it a J57?

http://www.stratofortress.de/image/j57_02.jpg

I pulled a fred, what can I say, I have no shame either.

Source:http://www.stratofortress.de/j57.html

 

[Bystander]

J79 ; I got to stop scaling things from connectors and cables.

 

[Cyrus]

Good job, well earned.

 

[Gokul43201]

Right ho, Bystander. It's straight out of a Phantom, I think (and the Vigilante's had them too, no?).

2 points on that one.

Q 17 Clue I: Identify this piece of history.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/7956/img2398wb0.jpg