Milsurp After Hours

Try this one...........

I give up.
What is it ?

Woftam wrote:I give up.
What is it ?

Probably the entire RAF once this current bunch of clowns have finished!

Seriously, it looks a little like a 1930s Gloster, but the livery seems Scandenavian, so...something by Saab?

Tom

Italian? Meridionali Ro.37bis,

I can't get over how much Joe and Vern in particular know about airplanes. I saw this photo in a like string at another site where guys were doing the guess what this is thing. Looks like it was designed by a group on drugs. I did manage to get the name of it. Anybody care to identify it?

Looks like something designed to be dropped from a larger aircraft . . . . . .and the sooner the better

I'm going with the XF-85 Goblin. And yes you were supposed to drop it off a bigger aircraft and get it back
I find that pretty amazing.

Joe, as usual, is correct.


XF-85 Goblin is correct, woftam.
It would have been amazing if it had worked.
It was designed as a parasite fighter to hang under a Convair B-36 bomber.
The problems were many, it was no match for Soviet fighters, short range, no landing gear, and worst of all it was nearly impossible to get it re-attached to the bomber.
One test pilot almost got killed when when trying to hook back up to the bomber and the landing hook-up piece on the bomber went through his canopy.
It was a bad idea that luckily never went far, only 2 prototypes were built.
Photo - being tested under a B-29, looks very complicated.

Vern.

Woftam was the first. Vern even had followup information. Maybe we should just call this forum the things that fly forum? Amazingly fast reply.

Getting back to seaplanes.....