Name that plane

Just to make official, yes, Ki-83

 

A Heinkel 274 or an AAS 01A as it ws called by the French. After all the final design was completed by Farman and the only ptototype bulit there.

The palne started as a high altitude derivative of the He 177, but the final plane was quite different from the original He 177.

 

And I almost went with the 177 but noticed the French colours and the different fuselage!

 

Its lack of defensive armourment would suggest you're right.

 

LOL the thing has four engines an a very visible twin tail and you notice the fuselage !! A variant of the He 277 would be a more reasonable guess but it actualy was a parallel development to the 277.
And I wouldn't take anything for granted on defensive armament where the He 177 family is concerned, they probably had more variants of defensive guns than planes built.

 

By all means, I'm not active here anymore, but please continue. I love to guess.

 

Here is another plane, hopefully more challenging than the last.

 

Chance Vought V-173 "The Flying Pancake"

 

Correct!

 

How about this one?

 

A Photoshop B71 "canard fortress", can't enlarge the picture enough to look at details but I doubt any sane engineer doing such an experiment would have kept the turrets.

 

Probably wouldn't have cut the port wing off enough to put the prop in the fuselage either.
Bill

 

Burt Rutan wanted to retain the turrets when he scaled this prototype down into the Long EZ, but the FAA wasn't having any part of it.

 

Getting the thread kickstarted.....

 

A Beast is a Beast, is a Beast. You can see the family lineage.

That is an SBC-4(the enlarged cowling is a giveaway), but since she is in British colors, or colours if you prefer, the aircraft in question is a Curtiss Cleveland I.

 

Yeah, too easy, but the thread needed some starter fluid. Your turn.

 

Let's see how long this one lasts

 

Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster

 

Good eye! Over to you.

 

doubt if this will take long to answer.
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