question Real or Fake

[Willyslancs]

asking on behalf of someone else , is this a real pic or a made up plane ,

[RAFMT]

Can't enlarge the image to see what parts they've made it out from but it's 100% genuine rubbish.

[Alex van de Wetering]

I would say..AIRFIX....and some old fashioned photo manipulation.

[mike65]

Interesting one of its undercarriage legs has dropped off.

6 propellors.

4 very small engines and 2 really big ones.Suspect it is a biysa on string.

What is that infront of the hanger on the ground?

 

Mike

[Caddy]

Why would they have two engines as big as the fuisilage? Also no movement in the propellers.....

[gritineye]

How about two very big engines, each has a crank driven prop and two at each side driven by shafts and spur gears, making six props altogether.

 

The engine casing has to be that big to accommodate the very big landing wheels and undercarriage when retracted rearwards, one of which is already up or not lowered yet. Aircraft undercarriages often retract unevenly, or maybe there was a problem.

 

The nose wheel presumably retracts into the fuselage, although it does look a bit 'stuck on'.

 

Another possibility is there are four wheels each side and what looks like a nose wheel is in fact the rear l/h undercarriage, this would explain the size of the engine housings.

 

The props appear to be still due to the high camera shutter speed.

Edited October 7, 2013 by gritineye

[Caddy]

Closer inspection shows that the main fuselage is a 'tail dragger' (like most British WW2 bombers and planes), why would it have a nose wheel? It wouldn't be able to take off would it?

Not sure if it's a fake, but if it was real then I can really understand why it never came into production (nearly wrote 'never took off', but aparently it did)

[Jack]

asking on behalf of someone else , is this a real pic or a made up plane ,

 

Looks like the plane I am learning to fly in :undecided:

[Adrian Barrell]

Looks like the plane I am learning to fly in :undecided:

 

He's letting you land now then Jack......?

[Jack]

He's letting you land now then Jack......?

 

Well once in a while he lets me........apparently you are supposed to have both wheels down :coffee:

[Adrian Barrell]

apparently you are supposed to have both wheels down :coffee:

 

I've generally found I need at least three wheels but a sky god like you can clearly manage with two! :bow:

[gritineye]

Looks like the plane I am learning to fly in :undecided:

 

Some one spotted you up there jack.......

[ploughman]

2 Large engines for the usual reasons.

With 4 wind turbines to supply the electrical power.

[Lauren Child]

I'd say its a fake as the shadows on the plane look like they're going in a different direction to those of the thinks in front of the hanger.

[Willyslancs]

cheers guys , the pic was found in a collection of period photographs , just seems odd that this one should be a mock up

[Lauren Child]

It could have been a mock up for some sort of project. Fake photo, but not necessarily a fake artifact.

[RAFMT]

Trust me, the aircraft itself is a fake.

And remember, there was a whole series of First World War photographs that were faked so it wasn't new, even in the 1940s.

[mike65]

It could have been a mock up for some sort of project. Fake photo, but not necessarily a fake artifact.

 

Quite agree lots of things have been faked in pictures and have actually become historical and famous.

The Cottingly Fairies and the Loch Ness Monster all are now part of our history.

Not forgeting all those plywood and inflatable tanks and planes we had in WW2.

 

Mike

[Enigma]

I have a small photo of a Fokker G1 in mid air, burning and trailing smoke.

Fake, it was originally a photo postcard.

 

Also a small photo of several of these dogfighting German bombers, fake.

 

Here the pics, nr 5 and 6.

http://www.piershil.com/index.php/hoeksche-waard/1522-de-foto-s-van-arie-vliegtuigen-en-crashes-in-wo2

 

Still they are nice

Edited October 9, 2013 by Enigma