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11-08-2006, 04:37 AM
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| Here's one...
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11-08-2006, 11:59 AM
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| Hmm got me beat on that one. I wanna say some kind of racing aircraft built by Lockheed or Hughes.
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11-08-2006, 12:04 PM
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| You're close - I'll give a hint. It is a racer and proposed military plane.
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11-10-2006, 12:20 PM
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| The Hughes H-1? But it wasn't proposed for military, wasn't it? |
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11-10-2006, 01:26 PM
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11-10-2006, 01:38 PM
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| I dont know got me beat on this one.
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11-10-2006, 02:11 PM
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| I'll see if we have any other takers - this one and its designer have an interesting history....
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11-10-2006, 06:53 PM
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| It's at Patterson, right?, but is it a Wedell-Williams? The pix I remember of those planes had the wheels in the undercarriage enclosed, but this one has open wheels... |
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11-10-2006, 08:01 PM
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| How about Roscoe Turner |
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11-10-2006, 11:39 PM
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Here's a bio about Jame Wedell Jim Wedell James Wedell BTW - that's him in the white coveralls...
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11-11-2006, 01:07 AM
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| Great FBJ!
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11-11-2006, 07:57 PM
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| It's an interesting pic, so far I've only seen line drawings of it, and i discarded it as the correct answer because I thought the tail fin on the drawing was "taller" than this one appears to be, and I also thought it hadn't left the drawing board. |
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11-12-2006, 02:53 AM
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11-12-2006, 06:14 AM
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| here's another shot of that hangar  |
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11-12-2006, 12:02 PM
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 Link: Wedell-Williams XP-34 "In 1934 Wedell-Williams won the design competition to build a prototype of the next-generation fighter plane for the army. Dubbed the XP-34, it was a direct descendant of the "45," except that it was larger and designed for two machine guns. The project had progressed to the point of final wind tunnel drawings at the time of Jimmie Wedell’s death. The project slowly withered and died after this tragedy, a combination of Harry Williams’s apathy and the reluctance of the army to proceed without the plane’s main designer." I believe that aircraft was being tweaked by Wedell for the XP-34 program and was basically becoming a prototype which was cancelled shortly after, that's why the difference in the cowl and landing gear. Wedell's death didn't help matters either...
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