Classic British Flight Sim

Airspeed wrote: ↑

11 Mar 2021, 11:51

TSR2 wrote: ↑

11 Mar 2021, 10:52

Hi Mike, I've found a couple but the I can't find one that ticks all the boxes in the diagram. I'm at a loss tbh.

How about if I tell everyone that it's an American WWII TRAINER. Does that help?
That's two clues, so down to silver badges from here on.

And I thought it was French.

Brian

I'm still at a loss as the engines don't marry up (which is what threw me at the start).

FlyTexas wrote: ↑

11 Mar 2021, 13:29

And I thought it was French.

I thought that too - something Breguet maybe - but the power-operated turret doesn't fit with post-WW2 new designs. Mike's hint of a USA trainer has still left me clueless. There is a hint of De Havilland about it, I reckon.

Got it...finally!

Brian

After I posted the multi-clue, I typed in American WWII trainer planes, and was shown a list of maybe 20 to choose from. I expected to see a heap of messages today, but there were only two more correct answers.
Diamond badges to:
Keith (Dev One), Mick (woody901), Pete (MilesMan)
for getting the Fairchild AT-21 Gunner first shot.
Not much work pinning these on....

Joe (blanston12) and Den (511Flyer) score silver....

Full 3-view in a few minutes, tick tick...

After the hint, I also searched for 'twin-engined American training aircraft of WW2' and not one mention or picture of that aircraft came up. So much for Google being all powerful and spying on us.

Funny, but thats how I found it!
Keith

I finally found it by searching for the engine manufacturer. Being that most US engines during the war were radials, not inline engines, I assumed this aircraft was powered by Ranger engines.

Brian

Dev One wrote: ↑

12 Mar 2021, 14:16

Funny, but thats how I found it!
Keith

We must have different algorithms then.

The US Training aircraft hint is the one that got me in the right direction, looking at a list of US training aircraft on wikipedia found it. Before that I thought it was a modified Hudson and was looking for either a modified one with either Allison or Merlin engine or someone who made a copy of it, which lead nowhere. The Ranger engine was not something I knew much about, probably because it was a failure and not used much so was not much help.