Shall I dare?
I have this as an Auster T Mk7 VF665 modded as Marshalls MA-4 boundary-layer control.
That looks like the Marshall MA.4, an Auster AOP.6 converted for boundary layer research.
Edit: Too slow...
Dan_pub has it correctly. Yes, it is the Marshall M.A.4 - and as to that from which it evolved, curiously both dan_pub and fabfour are correct because it was based on the Auster T.7 prototype which, in turn, was a modified Auster AOP.6. So both of you gentlemen can pour yourself a half litre but dan_pub takes the baton!
P.s. does anyone know if there was a Marshall M.A.1, 2 or 3?
This one is a slightly more modern scene, scoring a record.
Not many points for guessing the aircraft model, but the questions are:
which airline?
what is going on?
what record did they set?
That is a Boeing 747 from El Al on Operation Solomon evacuating Ethopian Jews in May 1991.
The record was 1122 passengers on board with 5 more at the end of the flight.
100% right on all counts. Over to you, Fab!
Thanks, Dan!
Operation Solomon is still in my memory and I can remember how deeply impressed I was about that.
Here is something older with less capacity.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Back to my mystery again
The floater is from a well known European company and is not a one-off.
And that is definitely the correct answer!
Over to you, Carlo
A quick one, till Carlo digs up a fresh one
Not a homebuilt, but used as testbed for a small jet-engine (the shiny thing on the wing below the real engine)
Sorry Walter I really don't mean to intrude but I just found a rather interesting pic that I'm submitting. Where is this pugnacious machinegunner sitting?
Cheers
Carlo (BG)
https://imgur.com/a/1lUBJ
Of course priority must be given to Walter's mystery
I think Carlo's gunner is in the dorsal turret of an Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F). One or two giveaways here !
If correct, please ignore and continue with Walter's pusher with wing-mounted hair dryer.
To remove all obstacles for the solution :
The depicted aircraft had a Rotax piston engine.
A second example mainly differed in having a lowered (cruciform) tailplane and a small turbine engine.
The aircraft is the VUT-001 (OK-VUT, one of of least two aircraft (the other one OK-DLT) aircraft developed by the Institute of Aerospace Engineering (IAE) of the Brno University of Technology
om the Czech Republic.
OK-VUT had a Rotax 912A2 engine and was used to test the small TMJ100 jet engine of PBS Velká Bíteš (Czech Republic). OK-DLT with the cruciform tail had a TP100 propturbine, also by PBS.
Lefty`s turn? Must be a joy to fire from an Ilyushin instead of firing from the hip
I see the designer was a Mr Pistek.
Any comment from me would be unwise................
Well, I think it is open house so let's press on.
61 of these scout/training biplanes were built. From a well known outfit.
I hope this biplane didn't appear here before
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