Time For Another Round Of "Guess The Plane"

"Chris Clarke" (shiftsandgiggles) 07/15/2014 at 17:13 • Filed to: planelopnik

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I can't give you a hint because I can't remember what it is and I'm too lazy to Google it.

*I Googled it.

-Hint: Fully composite airframe

-Hint: Service Ceiling - 52,495 ft

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chris Clarke 07/15/2014 at 17:19

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Turboprop, whatever it is.

Chris Clarke > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/15/2014 at 17:24

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Honeywell TPE 331-14F with a 4 blade Hartzell propeller

1337HPMustang > Chris Clarke 07/15/2014 at 17:35

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dat 20 or 30 inch pipe

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chris Clarke 07/15/2014 at 17:36

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It's got me a bit baffled because I'm not sure if the big lump is a semi-retrofitted bomb bay - I have to assume it's not an ag tank because the rest of the plane's wrong. The cockpit would be right for a fighter-bomber - maybe, but a mid-wing with landing gear pods?

Everything else but "internal bomb bay" and the visibility would say COIN aircraft, but those two factors make this thing absolutely retarded in that role.

The only combination that makes sense to me is for it to be a prop trainer that they made a turboprop, then a fighter bomber, then couldn't stop dicking with, but even that is a puzzle.

ttyymmnn > Chris Clarke 07/15/2014 at 17:46

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Grob G 520

The engine clue was a giveaway. That rudder is ridonkulous.

Cé hé sin > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/15/2014 at 17:50

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Propeller driven, whatever it is.

Chris Clarke > ttyymmnn 07/15/2014 at 17:57

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Winner.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 07/15/2014 at 17:57

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Actually knowing what it is now (high altitude test platform) makes a lot of the incongruities come together. Traits of a COIN, trainer, fighter-bomber, and an ag plane, + gigantor wings (cut off in the picture), and it all comes down to a Me-Too to the U2.

ttyymmnn > Chris Clarke 07/15/2014 at 18:04

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Yay! What do I win? Fabulous prizes? Beautiful women?

Chris Clarke > ttyymmnn 07/15/2014 at 18:08

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ttyymmnn > Chris Clarke 07/15/2014 at 18:09

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Just what I've always wanted. *sniff sniff*

speedygopher > Chris Clarke 07/15/2014 at 20:05

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Gotta be a bro plane with that big stack on there. Rollin' coal in the sky, bitch.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/25/2014 at 14:50

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IIRC that's a high altitude reconnaissance plane.