'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (10.27.11)

GAME OVER - correctly ID'd as the NASA AD-1 (oblique wing research aircraft)

 Game Over! I really didn't think there would be a correct answer in less than 30 minutes, but Casey DuBose was the first to offer up an answer and it was correct! The airplane is the NASA AD-1 oblique wing research aircraft from the late 70's. Designed by Burt Rutan and built by Ames Industrial. The airplane was a very inexpensive testbed that provided a significant amount of data on the oblique wing concept.

 I remember seeing it fly up at Oshkosh... not sure which year but probably around 1981 or 1982. The things you see at Oshkosh!

 Congrats to Casey for snagging a bacon sandwich at OSH12 : )

(click pic for hi-res) The late 70's NASA AD-1 in flight with the oblique wing highly pivoted

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 Here's a late-week Name The Plane challenge for all you hardcore avgeeks. All you gotta do is ID both MAKE and MODEL (various answers will be considered correct on this one), and the winner gets a bacon sandwhich prize at OSH12. So, if you've got sharp aircraft ID skills, be the first person to ID both MAKE and MODEL of this aircraft to be the winner!

 Your answers must go in the 'comments' area in this post, 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 I'm not sure if I mentioned this already, but to win, you have to give me both the MAKE and MODEL! Have fun : )

Comments

[Casey DuBose]

It is a Nasa AD-1. We a looking up from the bottom. I thought that was the tail at first, but it is too oblique.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_AD-1

[Martt (admin)]

Casey DuBose- You are correct - well done! It is indeed the NASA (or Ames Industrial, or even the Burt Rutan) AD-1 oblique wing research aircraft. mmm, bacon : )

I guess the avgeeks are paying pretty close attention to what's going on at AirPigz!