The What is it? Game

[GrauGeist]

hey, no fair on the earlier clue...the TDR-1/XBQ-4 had a cockpit/manual controls for manned flight!

Good job, Graeme!

 

[Graeme]

Thanks norab. Here's the next one...

 

[Capt. Vick]

Ooooo...is it Russian? No! French?

 

[norab]

hey, no fair on the earlier clue...the TDR-1/XBQ-4 had a cockpit/manual controls for manned flight!

Good job, Graeme!

In World War II, the Interstate Aircraft Company developed the TDR-1 "Edna," a twin engine remotely operated aircraft capable of carrying a 1,000 pound bomb or torpedo for the U.S. Navy. Originally envisioned as a carrier-based anti-ship weapon, the TDR-1 could be controlled up to seven miles away from the ground or a chase aircraft - the TBM-1C Avenger. The early unmanned combat air vehicle was guided using an RCA television camera

 

[GrauGeist]

Some great info and photos of the TDR here: http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/drone-warfare-40838.html

 

[Graeme]

Ooooo...is it Russian? No! French?

Sorry Vick, neither country...

 

[Graeme]

Panning back slowly now, note the cockpit...

 

[Geedee]

What you guys are looking at, is the Shorts SC1 ...the first VTOL A/C us Brits built

 

[Capt. Vick]

Well how about that? Great quiz Graeme and another notch in the old mark 1 eyeball Gary.

 

[Graeme]

Nicely done Gary!

Your control.

 

[KiwiBiggles]

It just had to be British. That rather steampunk air intake just tacked on is a complete giveaway.

 

[GrauGeist]

Hell of a deal...great challenge posted, Graeme!

And of course Gary would get it, Graeme showed more than two rivets in the photo!

 

[vikingBerserker]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Dave, you're gonna have to get quicker at this.

 

[GrauGeist]

Dave, you're gonna have to get quicker at this.

Hell's bells, Aaron..even if they dangled a million dollars in my face, I would have never guessed a SC.1...I stared at Graeme's photo completely lost...but Gary, all he needed was a couple of rivets and *bang* he gets it right away.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

 

[Geedee]

Jeez fella's !

A/C reccie is easy...more than 10 rivets per inch, its a Brit, less than 10 its a Yank, ding marks and scratches come from the hammer and sickle the Ruskies use, and baler twine and 6 " nails....well, thats from something us forumites would build !!.

I'll have a furckle in the mental archives and see if I can find one for ya later today

Found one !

 

[norab]

The Great Pyramid

 

[Geedee]

Yeah.... But which bit ?

 

[vikingBerserker]

F-117?