'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (11.12.11)
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 09:39PM 
GAME OVER - correctly ID'd by 'Dovan' as a Saab 35 Draken
It took just 40 minutes for Dovan to provide the correct answer... it's one of the very unique and extremely cool airplanes to come out of Sweden: the Saab 35 Draken. This pic had several leaning toward the McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-18, but as the pic below shows, it certainly isn't! Great job Dovan for getting it right... I hope you'll be able to collect your bacon sandwich at OSH12 : )
(click pic to enlarge) The very unique double-delta-winged Saab 35 Draken from Sweden
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It's Saturday night... and if you've got nothing better to do, maybe you'll wanna give it a go trying to ID this cropped down image in another Name The Plane game. All you gotta do is ID both MAKE and MODEL, and the first person to get it right wins a bacon sandwhich prize at OSH12. So, if you've got sharp aircraft ID skills, be the first one to ID both MAKE and MODEL of this aircraft to snag the NTP bragging rights.
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 fellow avgeeks : )
Reader Comments (19)
Mig-29
XControlled- nope
Is it a Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) F/18 hornet?
Adam Fast- nope
F/A-18 Hornet, McDonnel-Douglas (originally) Blue Angels Style
rcpylon- nope
McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F/A-18A Hornet in Blue Angel Colors. Judging by the rest of the photo, I would say it was tanking somewhere over the Western US in Winter.
Terence R.- nope (third one to try the F-18 route, but it's definitely not!)
Saab 35 Draken?
Doven- Well done! Yes, it's a Saab 35 Draken. I hope you can make it to Oshkosh 2012 for your bacon sandwich : )
I'll post the full pic in a few minutes...
Hmmm. Now I notice no leading edge slat. So, not a Hornet. Must be a Saab J-350 Mk II Draken. Maybe tanking over Sweden anytime not August.
T.
Missed it by THAT much!
Terence R.- Wow, that was close! Thanx for playing tho : )
NO WAY! I literally had "Saab Draken" typed and nearly hit "enter", but then I didn't think the more vertical leading edge looked thick enough to contain part of the intakes, as they do on the Draken. So I changed to Mig-29....
XControlled- keep chasing the bacon! : D
Just another reason to head to OSH next year, although its a little far, i live in Western Australia haha
Dang! These contests are flying by so quickly I can't even get an entry in. : )
Now that it has been verified as a Saab 35, it is interesting to me to note that the fuselage does not appear to be area-ruled, even though the aircraft is supersonic.
I must just say that I recognized the J35 Draken immediately! But I'm also Swedish. It was a pity i didn't check your site before now. More Swedish aircraft and I will be happy :-)
However, it's a great site you have! I found it when I searched the net for info about the Reno accident.
Dovan- I hope you'll find a way to make it to OSH12, it's the greatest place on earth!
airpigz lurker and Hylander- if you follow "@NameThePlane" on twitter you might catch the notifications of the game before I post it : )