Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing, IAM reach tentative agreement on new contract September 8, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 23. Development risks. September 6, 2024
- If a strike occurs, here’s what Boeing can do September 5, 2024
- China banks on C919, but numbers say it still needs Boeing September 2, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 22. High Turbine technologies. August 30, 2024
Mystery Photo #10
OK, have at it.
Update, Feb. 3: Well for the first time we stumped readers, though Normand Hamel was 90% correct. This is the Jetcraft Mystery Jet, an attempt to make a business jet out of the Vampire. Michel Merluzeau of G2 Solutions gets credit for bringing this one to us.
Meantime:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_BAUFRFeY&w=560&h=315]
Vought F-8
Second that
My eyes are not as young as they use to be. I cannot tell if it is a nose gear of the F-8, like UKair said, or a tail gear from a large tail dragger like a C-47 or C-46.
Thanks for the video down memory lane of my old friends.
Mystery? Davis-Monthan, obviously. And not, it’s not a Crusader hulk, it’s a T-38.
Oh, wait I get it: the “mystery photo” is the tiny one. I can’t get it to enlarge, but I’ll guess its a Skyraider tailwheel.
737 main landing gear?
I presume you refer to the pending Max varient.
de Havilland Vampire T55.
Close but nope.
DH-110 Sea Vixon nose gear.
If that’s the case (and its not the sea vixen) then DH Venom (NF3/53) Sea Venom (FAW 21/22/23) or Vampire (NF10)? It has to be a radar equipped version, because all the others’ landing gears pivot from the nose.
What a waste, especially all that never used and always soon obsoleted
military junk!
Harrier nose wheel ?
I’ll be picky let me say a Harrier GR3
The Harrier’s nosewheel ( and some other proposals ) has a pronounced “elbow”.
But the “taste of design” for harrier and the vampire are close imho. so, a british plane?
Jetcraft Mystery Jet, nice, Scotts revenge..
It reminds me of the Learjet 23, which in its initial incarnation used the basic structure of the Swiss P-16 ground-attack fighter aircraft.
Well done 😉