name the aeroplane part 2

[David Morton]

John - See Petes previous post to yours. He has said what the aeroplane was - the Bell Y59B. The first Jet aeroplane in the USAF but not a huge success ? We even had one here in the UK and it was possibly at Farnborough for a while.
It's final resting place? Probably the knackers yard (the scrappie).
Here is the link to the video - pssibly from Chino:
http://www.kosmix.com/topic/p-59_airacomet

 

[Keith]

So, do I get half a chocolate nose for saying Bell Pete? Do I, Do I?

I know, bugger off...

 

[David Morton]

Yeah but you said not a jet///

Wow - just had the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane fly over very low level in a banked turn Low enough to read the letters on the fuselage. I digress.
(Is there another war on?)

Well, you did say Bell which was quite inspired so I think you can have one blue Smarty but it all depends on Pete's generosity.

 

[John Fitzpatrick]

I got tripped up assuming it was a single engine, and obviously over-thought the whole thing.
But I still am in the dark about the instruments. Can you shed any light on what the various gauges are, apart from the electric panel?

 

[Keith]

Easy ones.....

A chocolate covered Antelope gonad for each correct answer.

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

So, do I get half a chocolate nose for saying Bell Pete? Do I, Do I?

I know, bugger off...

Hmmmm. I know we Aussies are noted for our generosity, but seeing you hold the Ashes.....correct bugger off:laugh:

 

[Jim Craik]

Pete,

Just looking at the windshield shape.

Is #2 a Connie?

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Pete,

Is #2 a Connie?

I think you mean Keith?

 

[Jim Craik]

Yea, I meant Keith, sorry Pete

 

[Keith]

Oh Jim, it's freezing in here!

One clue, both have something major in common although 30 years apart and from different 'worlds'

 

[Mike Christian]

I will sidestep here a little...I just got back from the Chino Airshow and it was awesome. Included in the flying aircraft were 4 each TBMs, 6 each P51, 3 each F6F, 3 each F4U, 2 each P38, 2 each F7F, 2 each P40, 2 each F8, 1 each Firefly, prototype flying wing N9m?, 1 each B25, 1 each F4F, 1 each Mig15, 1 each F86, 1 each F80, 1 each A4, 1 each SBD, 1 each P-39, a couple of older 1930s Grumman Biplane types, some Yaks of various types, a Folke Wolfe 190, and the only original Mitsu Zero, some F-15s and I probably forgot a few. Just awesome.

On display were many more planes I ca n't even list...

By the way, the P-59 Airacomet was there as a static display next to a Ryan FR-1 Fireball.

Mike

 

[Jim Craik]

Mike,

Sounds like a great day!

You mentioned the FR-1 Fireball, I'm fairly sure that this was the one that was kept behind Palo Alto High School.

It was used in their shop classes, being both a prop and jet, it was perfict for sudent training. By the time I noticed it it was unused in a fenced off area by the train tracks.

I remember riding my bike over there, climbing over the fence and crawling all over it. Then it was just an old, odd aircraft, but I loved it.

It was there until some time in the late 1960s'.

 

[David Morton]

Well Kieth.
если я делаю ошибку первый самолет может быть Россия

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Well Kieth.
если я делаю ошибку первый самолет может быть Россия

Боже мой Давид Желаю вам wouold остановить это!

 

[David Morton]

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[Keith]

Well Kieth.
если я делаю ошибку первый самолет может быть Россия

David,
Да Дэвид, точно выпрямляет но чточто?

Peter, Чем fuck вы говорите о?

 

[Keith]

Clue: Both aeroplanes do something I like very much...

 

[Jim Craik]

Is the second one a Short seaplane?

 

[David Morton]

In that they have a bar on board?

 

[Jack]

Мне придется искать труднее.