Jun 102009
A free download of any one item under $20 to the first responder to accurately ID the aircraft that goes along with this cockpit:
Is it an airplane? If so, is it unusual? A helicopter? If so, is it unusual? Something else entirely?
I’ll give this one till the weekend or so. I suspect that *somebody* will recognize this one.
13 Responses to “Another “ID this aircraft” contest”
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I think it’s the Dynavert a tilt wing aircraft from the 1970’s invented in Canada and killed by NIH. It is unusual in that it was a tilt wing that worked and came very close to mass production. It was initially intended for the USN but was obviously being marketed to other services as well.
> Dynavert…
Nope.
That is the cockpit of a CH 54 Tarhe. Used to see these flying out of the Miss, ANG facility at the Meridian Naval Air Station back in the ’70s.
Huh – the prop warning line is pretty far forward. However, I’m still guessing that it is a McDonnell design study based on the Breguet 941, a four-engine STOL airplane with interconnected propellers and large slotted flaps. McAir demonstrated the 941 and bigger 941S as its Model 188 and 188E respectively in the US in the mid-1960s as a STOL commuter airliner and military transport.
> CH 54 Tarhe…
> Breguet 941….
Nope and Nope.
It’s the successor to the CH-47.
XCH-62, the Boeing Vertol HLH. Never purchased nor flown.
http://www.helis.com/70s/h_h62.php
> XCH-62
Nope.
VSTOL Mohawk perchance?
Nope.
Fairy rotordyne?
Nope.
Sheez, I figured this one would’ve done better….
OK, closing this one out. Much to my honest surprise… no winners.
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