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This one's real easy....

Looks like a badly made Super Sabre. Someone put the wings on the wrong way round.

Looks like a modification of a F86 or F89.

Looks like an F-86 with a growth problem.

Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor, from the days when jets had chesthair.

RadiO wrote:Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor, from the days when jets had chesthair.

Yep, looks like it. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/an3.htm

Cookie for RadiO! And it wasn't just a jet, it had a rocket motor mounted under the tail, as well.

Frank Hipper wrote:Cookie for RadiO! And it wasn't just a jet, it had a rocket motor mounted under the tail, as well.

Cheers! I miss the 50s.
Of course, I did miss the 50s by twenty years, but the innovation in aircraft design, the variety, the excitement about aviation and space that seemed to affect all society... It must have been a wonderful time to be a plane buff.

Why the wing shape?

XF-91 or so.

*EDIT* Damn, too late. We ought to make the answers black in the future so more than the first guy can get a snack

Howedar wrote:XF-91 or so.

*EDIT* Damn, too late. We ought to make the answers black in the future so more than the first guy can get a snack

Nah, there needs to be a "transparent" color, since some of us use the SubSilver scheme.

Yes, well you got my meaning.

Howedar wrote:XF-91 or so.

*EDIT* Damn, too late. We ought to make the answers black in the future so more than the first guy can get a snack

Have a congratulatory pat on the back.

I think the wingshape might have had something to do with the control surfaces, they used to have severe bother getting aircraft to respond at high sub-sonic speeds so perhaps they thought bigger was better. Check the size and position of the ailerons on that thing, they're huge!