Mustango70 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 What an amazing found in Sahara! http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...%3D0%26page%3D1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNoAF Aerobatic Team Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 How Cool is that!!!! Wish there was moore piccys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyGol Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Wish there were more pics,as it would make an ideal diorama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffe284 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Phantastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul178 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 On another forum I frequent this topic has appeared. http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread....326#post1880326 So my questions are Is this a genuine aircraft or is this a very clever photoshoppig job of a model? Theres a lot of headscratching going on about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 I'm thinking photoshop. If you look behind the aircraft there is no evidence of a forced landing, and after hitting those rocks they'd be debris everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Very interesting, Im leaning towards a genuine find, mostly because of the last couple of pictures. The cockpit looks to be authentic, down to the fully forward throttle! Intriguing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Ogilvie Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) Looks authentic to me... Re. crash landing damage - who's to say there wasn't more sand over those rocks 70 odd years ago? Iain Edited April 19, 2012 by Iain (32SIG) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xffw45343tg Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Fully forward throttle on forced landing? An important part of my forced landing drill is: Fuel: OFF, Mixture: ICO, Throttle: CLOSED, Mags: OFF etc Even landing with power available you'd normally want the throttle closed as you touch. But I've no idea about that aircraft and the pics look mighty realistic. Kirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Ogilvie Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 What Kirk said - but doesn't mean it can't have moved/been moved after 'landing'... Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 It would be nice to see that back here for the RAF Museum Hendon......alongside the Halifax, Gladiator and Hurri all in similar state! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Aereo Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Amazing, thank you for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) Let's hope it is recovered. I'm building one of these at the moment. Edited April 19, 2012 by bentwaters81tfw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigReg Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 A lot of messages on the interweb saying this is a fake - lets hope not. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 There looks to be a bit of damage to the port wing leading edge, but not the starboard. It could conceivably have been a wheels down landing until it hit the rocks under the sand? The prop has ended up behind the aircraft, which smacks of a bit of a front end trauma, possibly a failed nose-over on impact? Lots of possibilities, and if you had a chance to go in the cockpit of a wrecked plane, wouldn't you fiddle with the controls? I think there's possibly been a bit of "dakka dakka" involved over the years. What seems to imply photoshoppage is the strange scene, which looks a bit surreal. Even the shots of the land used as an example of the terrain looks a bit photoshopped, so it's very possibly the real thing. It would look fabulous in a museum with a facsimile of the ground on which it landed around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Fully forward throttle on forced landing?Kirk Don't forget, on US aircraft the throttles operated the opposite way to British aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Don't forget, on US aircraft the throttles operated the opposite way to British aircraft. Hi, No, they didn't. It was on French planes. Fernando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizball Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Maybe I'm a bit insane, but the first thing I looked at was the razor-sharp camouflage edges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test Graham Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Curtiss used paint masks, as in some British factories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Hi,No, they didn't. It was on French planes. Fernando I knew it was someones. But surely on Brit 'planes they were similar??Weren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tango98 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) Interesting but it could be a very well faked photoshop job and besides, who's to say when (if real) the photos were taken? IMHO if it is real why is so much of it still intact as I can't see the local desert tribes leaving this untouched - too much of value (to them) still remains on the airframe. OTOH though, there is of course the possibility that it may have been buried during a sandstorm not long after coming down and uncovered at a later date by another storm. Cheers Dave Edited April 19, 2012 by tango98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Aereo Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 If it is a fake it is quite well done. The only thing that really makes me suspicious is the pixellization around the rudder against the backdrop of the sky, which would indeed be consistent with a fake, for the little I think I know (and a little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing) about faking photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Hi I would love to think it was real, but I personally think it is a fake, I know if I found something like this in the desert I get someone to photograph me by it, or if in the desert travelling alone (!) I would put the camera on timer and photograph myself with the aircraft. The break point of the engine to gearing looks to clean for a crash, no shattered casing,imagine the force required to break off the front of an engine,yet little damage around the cowling. quote from link "The plane lay so many years is not bothered by anyone. The finder of the wreck told the RAF and were able to identify aircraft. We do not know why he was only at that particular place. It may puzzle some time find a solution. " So the RAF in UK should know all about the history of this aircraft. If it is real we will no doubt hear soon of it soon being recovered. cheers Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 I knew it was someones. But surely on Brit 'planes they were similar??Weren't they? Hi, Similar to the French ones? Nope, one of the mods they did on the planes acquired on French orders was reversing the throttles. Fernando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcanicity Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 This link was posted on the Flypast forum yesterday and has provoked a lot of debate. http://www.konradus.com/forum/read.php?f=1...tr=0&page=1 The debate is whether this is a genuine wreck (the article is in Polish so we're not quite sure) or a diorama. As a modeller of 13 years, there's no doubt in my mind, especially looking at the fourth picture down, that this is the real McCoy I personally think it's amazing! Hopefully the original posters on the Polish forum will have some more information soon...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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