Amercian Transport Projects 1938 - 1951: To Name!

[Romantic Technofreak]

Some words before:

All US citizens, if in the States or abroad, are asked to keep one day delay from the time this starting was posted.

The following experts are asked to say which planes they don´t know without looking in their files:

Robert
Kutscha
GregP

Everybody else who likes to answer is asked to continue posting here. Last time Larry won the competition and did not turn up since. I do this "work" here for people who like to give something back by sharing this fine community. Appearing here, telling all planes and vanishing again is not what I intended. So please, everybody who is not yet "First Lieutenant", only answer if you want to further take a place here. Also, please don´t use the registration index, if it is visible (or at least admit it). And this is only an asking, not a command. Now please guess

American Transport Projects 1938 - 1951


You receive only one point for the most spectacular ones, because I think everybody knows them:

#1:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/970645b1.jpg

#2:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/32812265.jpg

#3: If you call this aircraft Canadian but American, you are right, but loose the point! So, this might be a pointless action!:)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/5fa3e950.jpg


A bit more unknown may be these. For guessing them, you receive 2 points:

#4:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/fc59ad8d.jpg

#5: This aircraft is so beautiful, I couldn´t resist to post two pictures:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/69857311.jpg

The one who here guesses the smaller one looses one point!:)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/65154537.jpg

#6: As this one is merely a different version of a well-known transporter, for to get the points you have to tell the correct denomination of the manufacturer and the complete experimental type designation!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/d116757b.jpg


I think the next ones are a bit more difficult - three points!

#7:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/2f847b76.jpg

#8:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/4f137e6d.jpg


For the next ones, you should be really good on a website with four digits, if you know what I mean. Four Points each!

#9:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/a3f5a298.jpg

#10: "The only four-engined airplane ever built in Louisiana!" This doesn´t help, but is worth mentioning![8D]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/b8b7d48a.jpg

#11: It has no engines, but a name. Maybe even three, all are welcome:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/fd19ea9c.jpg


The next rarity is to find on the website mentioned above, but not this picture! 5 points!!!

#12:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/39e92272.jpg


And the price? Well, you know I can´t give much. This time I only can make a "transportation proposal". If you will like it - I don´t know. It´s like you won a holiday on a remote South Sea island - and are told to use your own parachute to get there...[:0]

OK, now enjoy guessing!
Regards, RT

[Romantic Technofreak]

Come on, people, nobody tries a guess?[B)]

The price, of course, isn´t something troublesome. More something funny-interesting-surprising...;)

OK, friends, give yourself a kick and guess!
Waiting for you, RT

[Red Admiral]

Its obvious where No.1 comes from, but i've never seen it before.

No.3 is one of the Cunliffe-Owen flying wing thingies, but which one I don't know.

No.4 is bugging me because I've seen that picture so many times before in one of my books(which I don't have with me)

I've never seen the others before.

[Romantic Technofreak]

Is it possible you really don´t know them?[?][?][xx(][B)]

Red Admiral, Cunliffe-Owen is a good guess, but still wrong...[:0]

OK friends, if there is no further guess within one day from the time of this my answer, Red Admiral will win the competition! (As only one who had the guts to guess...):([8)][:o)]

[andyo2000]

Well drastic times call for less-than-moral measures

#1 is, I believe, a B-36 Peacemaker.

#3 is the one and only Burnelli Loadmaster. I got this by searching its registration letters, sorry.

#5 is the Lockheed R6V Constitution.

I arrived at the four-digit website after searching the registration number of #10.

#9 is a Timm T-840

#10 is a Monsted-Vincent MV-1 Starflight.

#11 is a Douglas XCG-7

For #12, I couldn't find a picture. However, searching the registration number N34219 leads to me to believe it was a Waco Aristocraft II.

I admit this is no way to win. But you needed answers RT, and I provided them [:p].

[GregP]

1. Convair (formerly Consolidated) XC-99 Transport
2. Northrop YC-125 Raider (a development of the N-23 and N32 planes).
3. Burnelli (Canadian Car & Foundry actually made it, but it was a Burnelli) CBY-3
4. Still looking …
5. Lockheed R6V Constitution
6. Chase / Fairchild XC-123A (4 x GE CJ610 jets fitted to YC-123H)
7. Looks like a Percival or a Miles … can’t say.
8. Chase XC-123 Avitruc (powered glider)
9. Looks like a Percival or a Miles … can’t say yet ...
10. Still looking …
11. Still looking …
12. Waco Aristocraft (Franklin engine)

[Verner]

Number #7 is DC-5 methinks

[Romantic Technofreak]

OK, friends, I agree with Andy. Probably this contest was a bit too difficult.

Now let´s see Andy´s result:

#1: wrong
#2: no guess
#3: right - 1 point!
#4: no guess
#5: right - 2 points!
#6: no guess
#7: no guess
#8: no guess
#9: right - 4 points!
#10: right - 4 points!
#11: right - 4 points!
#12: right - 5 points!

So, Andy scores in the high ranks and has 20 points (how much time did you have to spend on 1000aircraft.com, dude?:)). Can Greg still beat that? 19 minutes time difference, I hope everybody believes that he did not copy anything from Andy. This is Greg´s result:

#1: right - 1 point!
#2: right - 1 point!
#3: right - 1 point!
#4: no guess
#5: right - 2 points!
#6: right - 2 points!
#7: no guess
#8: partly right. If you check your right #6, you see that the C-number of #8 can´t be right. 2 points of three!
#9: no guess
#10: no guess
#11: no guess
#12: right - 5 points!

So, Greg receives 14 points. As nobody can beat Andy´s result by guessing #4 and #7, Andy is the winner!

Here is your price, Andy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/7fd276bd.jpg

The Beecraft Weebee. I hope you have the same guts to fly it - if only in phantasy - like in guessing (I would have some troubles to imagine that...[:0])

Verner, your guess of #7 is wrong. I leave another day until unveiling #4 and #7, so further guesses abou them are welcome.

Hope you enjoyed this, and best regards, RT

[ChrisMcD]

I think I may have some of the gaps

1 Convair XC-99 & Model 37
2 Northrop YC-125 Raider
3. Burnelli CBY-3 Loadmaster
4. Curtiss C-76 Caravan
5. Lockheed R6V Constitution
6 Chase YC-122 Avitruc
7 Cessna (P-260) C-106

Tell you what RT - your list is very well balanced for difficulty!! Well done

Why did you miss out the Conestoga - too easy?

[andyo2000]

Many thanks RT for a good game, even if i couldnt answer most of them without cheating

I didn't spend much time on that site. After I saw the Monsted, I continue clicking next photo in the hopes that that's how you got your photos. It worked:D.

[Romantic Technofreak]

Thank you for your kind words, friends![:I]:)

Chirs, you gave the right answers for #4 and #7 and the correct C-number for #8.

quote:
Chris wrote:
Why did you miss out the Conestoga - too easy?


Oh my God, you´re right! I prepared the picture for uploading - and then I forgot it!

OK, here it is! 10 points additionally for Chris!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/f8d715ef.jpg

Andy, if you like, you could give a comment on your price! And be it a sarcastic one...[}:)];)

Cheers, RT

[andyo2000]

how shameful to neglect my prize!

very generous RT! i love it. but one question - how ever did you get it? a short search reveals the one model burned in 1978. Nevertheless, it is very valuable to me. Now I can fly to work instead of riding my bike! [xx(]

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/size/stits-junior.jpg
And to you RT, for the game, I give you this, an even smaller plane. Not THE smallest, but I dont know how smaller I'd want to go. [:p] Perhaps if more games of these are made, more small planes will be given[?]

[GregP]

Hi RT,

OK, #8 may be the XC-122 .... but I think it was redesignated the XC-123 Provider.

The strange-looking stainless steel aircraft is the Budd RB-1 Conestoga. Span: 30.5m, length: 20.7m, Height: 9.68m, wing area: 130.0 sq. m, Engines: P&W R-1830 Twin Wasps of 1200 HP each, 9150kg empty, 15372kg loaded, 316kph max speed, 25 built. 14 went to the Flying Tigers Line for freight haulers.

[Romantic Technofreak]

Hi Andy,

thanks again for your kindness.:)

quote:You wrote:
how ever did you get it? a short search reveals the one model burned in 1978. Nevertheless, it is very valuable to me.

As long as there are pictures remaining, these machines will never die. In our dreams, they keep on flying forever!

Also thank you for posting the Stits Junior. It´s hard to get good pictures of this aircraft, I had none yet.

quote:Perhaps if more games of these are made, more small planes will be given[?]

Although possible, it would be not the best idea. The "price" of such a game must fit to the rest (here it gives an ironcal counterpart to all that transportation efforts, fine that you like it anyway!), and it must be a surprise. Contributors to the next games (sorry, there is no concrete plan yet for another game)... should not be able to calculate what the price could be, they may loose interest...

Hi Greg, I admit that XC-122 and XC-123 are easy to confuse. But they are not the same. The XC-123 bases on the XC-122, but consider only the cross-section that is completely different. Also, the XC-123
is noticeably bigger.

Regards, RT