Silhouette challenge

[skytrain10]

Not from CAAC...

[Ridge Runner]

Are you sure there is no Ilyushin link? That tail and the winglets are so IL-!

[skytrain10]

Thats why I rather liked this one...it looks as though it should have been something from Ilyushin (tail is very much like an IL96's)...but its not!

[Lightning Mate]

I'm beginning to think it's older than it looks.

Engines these days are much more close-coupled. However, they do appear to be high bypass fans.

Also very unusual to have leading-edge devices above the engine pylons

The tailplane is rather small too.

rabbit rabbit rabbit.....

[Ridge Runner]

The cockpit reminds me of an ATR..... getting warmer? RR

[skytrain10]

RR..no connection with ATR.

LM..guess it depends on how old you were thinking? Its certainly not a brand new design.

[S'land]

Embraer 195?

[Ridge Runner]

Skytrain,

Would it be right to say this was the early rendition of a type that did go to production but looking quite different?

RR

[skytrain10]

S'land, not an Embraer product.

RR...no...in fact this aircraft never made it into production. It was offered in 2 completely different design options (this being one of the two) but neither of them were produced.

[dazdaz]

Has to be some stretched variant of the 767/757 Having posted that......Some Canadian design?

[Ridge Runner]

Ah well.. I'll sit back and observe because I've run out of ideas. My suspicion it is a Chinese/US or Japanese/US project but.......... RR

I'll check back later......

[Lightning Mate]

The closest I can get is the TU 214.

[skytrain10]

RR, this was not an international partnership, but merely a design from an established manufacturer.

[skytrain10]

DazDaz, no connection with the 757/767 line nor to Canada.

LM..not a Tupolev product, BUT, this aircraft was designed to replace a Tupolev aircraft!

[ifonly]

Looks like a Yakolev YAK-46 to me.

[skytrain10]

Well done ifonly. It is indeed the Yak-46, one of 2 designs submitted by Yakovlev in 1990 to replace the TU-134. See Flight article:
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...?search=yak 46

Welcome to the forum ifonly...you can now post your own image to the forum, or, if nothing to post, declare Open House.

You have control

[ifonly]

It'll have to be 'Open House' as I may not be around for a few weeks.

Have to confess your clues prompted me to Google "TU-134 replacement" which came up with the page in the link !

[evansb]

It is not the Yak-46. It is the Yak-46-1. The Yak-46 was a proposed twin engine aft mounted propfan, akin to the MD-94X.

[Ridge Runner]

oo er... where do we go from here..... Open house anyway I guess!!!! RR

[skytrain10]

With respect, my source of information was Flight, the article link that I provided made no reference to a suffix for either model of Yak-46. As far as I am concerned ifonly answered the challenge correctly according to the info I had.

ifonly has declared Open House.