Can You Identify These Aircraft from Limited Clues?

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A user has initiated a game involving the identification of various aircraft, munitions, and space-related items through a series of clues, including photographs. Each question will have up to three clues, with participants allowed to guess only once per clue, earning points based on when they answer correctly. The game encourages interaction, with players discussing their guesses and clarifying clues, while also establishing rules to prevent guess editing and multiple submissions. The host plans to post multiple questions simultaneously and aims to keep the difficulty varied, starting with harder clues and potentially easing them as the game progresses. Overall, the discussion fosters a competitive yet engaging environment for aviation enthusiasts.
  • #121
Little Boy
 
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  • #123
Bystander said:
Little Boy
Wow! That was the first time I saw it - never even saw a picture of it before.

Bystander - 3 more.
 
  • #124
sikorski s-55

Edit: Ugly, like fred.
 
  • #125
cyrusabdollahi said:
sikorski s-55
Very close. It's actually the UH-19, but S-55 is good enough for 3 points.

Time to make it a little tough again...
 
  • #127
Your clue leaves me clueless. Please elaborate on what you mean by "the race" there were many races in avaiations history.
 
  • #129
cyrusabdollahi said:
Your clue leaves me clueless. Please elaborate on what you mean by "the race" there were many races in avaiations history.
Many races in aviation history; two big Races in modern World history.
 
  • #130
F-86 sabre
 
  • #131
Vanguard I
 
  • #132
cyrusabdollahi said:
F-86 sabre
Correct, for 3 points.
 
  • #133
Q18: Cheated --- that's so obscure as to be ridiculous. See if Fred gets it on "1."
 
  • #134
Re: Q18... I've never seen anything like that, so I've got to go for a (semi)educated guess. Since it's gold-plated, it's obviously intended for space applications; that opinion is also based upon the 'space race' that was going on when I was a mere child. My guess, although it doesn't look like one, is that it's the rear view of an early prototype space helmet.
 
  • #135
cyrusabdollahi said:
sikorski s-55

Edit: Ugly, like fred.
Amatueur. It's a Chickasaw. Geeze. The differences are glaring.
 
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  • #136
Q18: Not a friggin' clue.
 
  • #137
Q18: save the second clue --- I'll take my 2 pts. for "Corona film cannister," or "Corona film recovery cannister."
 
  • #138
Bystander said:
Q18: save the second clue --- I'll take my 2 pts. for "Corona film cannister," or "Corona film recovery cannister."
That's good for 2 points. The thing in the object is a Discoverer satellite, one of the early successes of the Corona Project. Also, being Discoverer XIV, it is the first satellite to be ejected by an orbiting spave vehicle and recovered in mid-air. Upon re-entry, it deployed a parachute which was successfully snagged by a C-119.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/294/img2141oi8.jpg

I thought the obscurity of this one would be at least somewhat alleviated by its being in the news last year, when the Corona Engineers were awarded the NAE's Draper Prize.
 
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  • #140
(update, till Q20)

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[u]SCORES[/u] :

Bystander      16
Cyrus          27
Fred           10
Kurdt          3

Note: There were question numbers that were messed up. They've now been fixed. I believe these scores are correct.
 
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  • #141
Snark missile
 
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  • #146
FredGarvin said:
That's a Pratt & Whitney afterburner. Since it's next to the Raptor I'll also say that it's the vectored thrust assembly.
Silly me - should have clipped the picture more.

That pic is the back view of the entire F119. Here's another view:

http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/571/img2314lu7.jpg

And the hazy mammoth is the Stratofortress - 6 points.
 
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