Monday
Dec202010
'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (12.20.10)
Monday, December 20, 2010 at 08:05PM 
The last time I tried a really hard, super small cropped 'Name The Plane' contest, it lasted about an hour (P-61 rear windows). But it was supposed to take at least 2 days for someone to get the right answer... so this time around, all you get is the shadow, and not quite all of it at that.
If you are the first person to correctly ID this aircraft by MAKE and MODEL, you'll win a bacon sandwich at Oshkosh 2011. Your answers go in the 'comments' area, and as always, please don't use the shotgun approach to answers - only put up truly educated guesses that you've arrived at via really thinking it thru. And hey, have some fun. Whatever you do, don't let it keep you up tonight trying to figure out what it is!
Reader Comments (32)
Messerschmitt ME-262?
Adam Fast- nope
SU-37 MR?
eyeno- nope
DH.88 Comet?
Basler BT-67? (turbo dc-3)
nyossi- nope
Tican- nope
Looks like that guy in the swiss jet turbine wing on his back with his hands in the air. But is that really an airplane?
Ben
Ben- Interesting thought... and it does look like the Jetman, but it isn't.
I think this is gonna be really hard to get, but I'm sure someone will... the position of the sun will only make this even harder than it already is. You might google (images) anything that you think it might be to look for the shadow match : )
Scaled Composites ARES is the only other guess that comes close to the shape.
STS - Space Shuttle
Tican- nope... it's definitely a difficult one to guess because of how some of the parts of the airplane are affecting the shadow shape.
eyeno- nope (I hope it doesn't keep y'all up tonight trying to figure it out!)
de Havilland Hornet?
shisochou- nope, but thanks for moving this guess over from twitter
Curtis-Wright AT-9.
Jeff (@FiveFs)
Jeff S.- nope, but I can sure see how you might think that was it : )
Is it an Avro Vulcan?
Chris- nope
P-38?
Race 5- nope
General Dynamics F-111 'Aardvark' ?
nyossi- nope
I'll try once more after sleeping on it. F-15 eagle?
Tican- nope, sorry.
Curtiss Wright AT-9
seerjfly- that's a good guess (and you're the second one to try it) but it's not correct.
Last try for me...lol Cessna UC-78 Bamboo Bomber??
Tican- WooHoo! We have a winner! It is indeed a Cessna UC-78 - excellent work. I'm impressed you didn't give up... you've earned that bacon sandwich at Oshkosh 2011, I hope you'll be there to collect : )
Man, way to go, Tican. Was pondering this one the whole time. Can't wait to see the original picture. Well done, Matt! <jw>