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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

That is a Boeing 747 from El Al on Operation Solomon evacuating Ethopian Jews in May 1991.
The record was 1122 passengers on board with 5 more at the end of the flight. :very_drunk:
 
Thanks, Dan! :encouragement:
Operation Solomon is still in my memory and I can remember how deeply impressed I was about that.

Here is something older with less capacity.
 

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wout said:
She is the MacGregor MG-65 (CF-RCZ c/n MG-1) by Wilmer MacGregor, completed in 1961.
Now in the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre.
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It was also there on Sept 7th, 2017. I know, because I was there. Alas, but the ground here is too frozen for me to dig a deep hole to drop into...:p87:
 

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A quick one, till Carlo digs up a fresh one :wavey:
Not a homebuilt, but used as testbed for a small jet-engine (the shiny thing on the wing below the real engine)
 

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I think Carlo's gunner is in the dorsal turret of an Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F). One or two giveaways here !

If correct, please ignore and continue with Walter's pusher with wing-mounted hair dryer.
 
lefty said:
I think Carlo's gunner is in the dorsal turret of an Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F). One or two giveaways here !

If correct, please ignore and continue with Walter's pusher with wing-mounted hair dryer.
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That's right Mike a russian gunner in his MB3 dorsal turret of a Ilyushin Il-4T looking at his 12.7mm UBT machine gun....
Cheers
Carlo
 
To remove all obstacles for the solution :biggrin-new::
The depicted aircraft had a Rotax piston engine.
A second example mainly differed in having a lowered (cruciform) tailplane and a small turbine engine.
 
The aircraft is the VUT-001 (OK-VUT, one of of least two aircraft (the other one OK-DLT) aircraft developed by the Institute of Aerospace Engineering (IAE) of the Brno University of Technology
om the Czech Republic.
OK-VUT had a Rotax 912A2 engine and was used to test the small TMJ100 jet engine of PBS Velká Bíteš (Czech Republic). OK-DLT with the cruciform tail had a TP100 propturbine, also by PBS.

Lefty`s turn? Must be a joy to fire from an Ilyushin instead of firing from the hip :encouragement:
 
Well, I think it is open house so let's press on.


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