Aviation Recognition Challenge Thread

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Now that is damned interesting!

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I love it that when you Google “Cuenca Airport” the first image:

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That looks like some sort of grob trainer aircraft. Can’t quite pin it down though.

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Yes indeed, I live in Texas now. I moved to the States in 2002 (my wife is from over here) and chased the flying career dream. I’m guessing you have a similar story?

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CT4?

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Victa Airtourer

Oh wow I didn’t know the kiwis used it as a trainer :smile: had to look it up.

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should be pretty easy…

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I’m guessing there’s a good story behind that lol

Name it, and your up again.

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Awesome! I used to fly motor-gliders for the Air Cadets at RAF Henlow in the late 1990’s.

Oh, and that is a Slingsby Sedbergh TX Mk.1 :slight_smile:

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Yes indeed, the mighty Vigilant! It was a lot of fun to fly, although I really didn’t build much time in them before I left the RAF and moved away from the area.

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Your up @PaulRix

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Yep, sorry. I got sidetracked.

Let’s see if this one lasts any longer than my previous effort.

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Thats not a Westland Wapiti is it!?

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Indeed it is! I’m trying to make this a challenge but you are all just too good!

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I’ll admit I had to dig into a book for the one… got lucky I think. Your really working my British biplane knowledge here lol

I bet @PaulRix get this one fast lol

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Apologies for a bit off topic, but wanted to ask those in the thread a quick question:

I’m useless at identifying aircraft, but was wondering if I could add a [randomaircraft] new forum bot (@avrec?), to make a bit of a game of it. Sort of like the @wxbot, but for random aircraft pictures. It could randomly pick a main image from something like all the pages down from here (where a picture exists): List of aircraft - Wikipedia as there seems to be a few to choose from. It might be either quite hard or very easy though :slight_smile: Wikipedia has a simple API so it should be possible.

I thinking the first to reply to the bot with the answer (say, the page title of the article from where the image is from) would then ‘win’. Not sure about that bit.

Anyway, just an idea.

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Waiting for the call to arms for @jennekepicbot

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It’s a meteor with turboprop engines :slight_smile:

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You need to take that up with the public decency and & morality desk. Godspeed man.

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