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Really puzzled here...have found a photo of the Speed King and its identical to the challenge.....just to be sure, the full name of the Speed King is the Folkerts SK-1.
I would have liked to say Folkerts SK1 too, but everybody are yelling that too. Was it renamed after it was sold to Clem Whittenbeck? It was called Matilda when Don Rae flew it.
If those are canards aft of the cockpit they are very small and match nothing that I know of (at the moment). You're getting your own back.....
Looks Chinese to me but trying to work out if one or two engines, suspect two....and missiles not on the extreme wingtips? Drag.
Looks Chinese to me but trying to work out if one or two engines, suspect two....and missiles not on the extreme wingtips? Drag.
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I think it may be the "Novi Avion", a Yugoslavian effort to produce a home-grown supersonic multi-role aircraft of the early ninety's.
The shadows were quite misleading and set me off on the wrong track; the intake looked like that of the Chendu J-10, but the rear end was all wrong. The shadows on the fuselage looked very much like a Rafale, but it didn't appear centred on that style of intake, so that led me to think that the intake wasn't that shape at all, and then it all fell into place (I think)!
If correct, "Open House" as I'm off-line soon 'til tomorrow lunchtime.
The shadows were quite misleading and set me off on the wrong track; the intake looked like that of the Chendu J-10, but the rear end was all wrong. The shadows on the fuselage looked very much like a Rafale, but it didn't appear centred on that style of intake, so that led me to think that the intake wasn't that shape at all, and then it all fell into place (I think)!
If correct, "Open House" as I'm off-line soon 'til tomorrow lunchtime.
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It is the VTI Novi Avion, a project from Yugoslavia. This is the second iteration of the design. The first had different intakes etc (a la F-16). To me it looks remarkably like a Gripen!!!!
Here is the first layout....
SincoTC has declared OPEN HOUSE
RR
Here is the first layout....
SincoTC has declared OPEN HOUSE
RR
