We HAVE to have a Recce thread…it’s the law surely!
Starter for 10
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Sukhoi T-50 - their prototype for the next generation of Russian fighter aircraft
Mike Bravo never confirmed my identification of the AHRLAC in the old Air Rec thread 
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http://forums.aircadetcentral.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24&start=4278
Opps thought I did, sorry … :oops:
MB
Did someone say Air ‘Recce’?
Or did you mean Aircraft Recognition?
There’s a picture in this thread…
…so I have to identify it…
…the top circle is a bridge at 51°46’7.86"N 3°0’16.78"W
Middle circle is also a bridge (number 80 I believe)…
51.767951 -3.001748
That’ll be the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal then.
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[quote=“10tacphantom” post=151]We HAVE to have a Recce thread…it’s the law surely!
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Maybe so, but what does it have to do with flying?
Spotter.
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Mitsubishi G4M?
Stone cold. A little like this aircraft.
The only thing I can think of is the 1972 Andes crash, but the pic seems too old for that. Think you might have to throw us a bone with this one … :?
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The latest addition to the RAF fleet - easy I guess, but bonus points for her tail number and exact nomenclature!
Cheers
DJ
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I’m not actually convinced there’s an aircraft in that photo, but if there is, it might be most of a Vickers Wellington, possibly the one that crashed at Carreg Goch in the Brecon Beacons?
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The latest addition to the RAF fleet - easy I guess, but bonus points for her tail number and exact nomenclature!
Cheers
DJ[/quote]
Going for the double:
Boeing RC-135W
I think the RAF name will be ‘Airseeker’ (or is that the name of the overall project?) similar to a USAF ‘Rivet Joint’.
Just found out that they will be ‘new’ conversions from KC-135 tankers rather than existing USAF Rivet Joints. She’ll be no stranger to our skies - here she is at Mildenhall in 1984!:
(Link gives the USAF and RAF ‘tail numbers’!)
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Is that what you’re reading it as? Why that specific aircraft? I thought I could just see the faint outline of a long, tapering-winged aircraft, to the left, low. At a slight port-wing-high cant, suggestive of a loitering Reaper/Raptor, but maybe not. Scale’s difficult to gage. The pseudo-fuselage/tail on the ground is probably just a red herring, but it’s almost like a bent Herc.
But that smudge…with lit bleedoff trailing edgse of wing…maybe?
(drat, can’t insert my enlarged version of the extracted pic from this device, will need to use a PC)
wilf_san
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You mean the shape in the circle?
Hard to say as the image is heavily compressed.
I thought G4M as it didn’t look quite right for a Wellington to me; but it doesn’t look quite right as a G4M either…
If there’s a higher-quality version of the pic available it might help!
the smudge right of centre looks like it could Dc-3/Dakota fuselage but it could be a trick of shadows, light, and rock formations…
Steve679 wins. It’s a DC-3, crashed in the Pyranees in 1944.
[color=#0000ff]On 5 December 1944 a British Douglas Dakota III aircraft, serial number FL588, of the Royal Air Force crashed on the Pic de la Camisette, a mountain close to the commune of Mijanès, Ariège, in the French Pyrenees. It was on a military transport operation during World War II.
The Dakota was piloted by three RAF pilots. In total twenty-three airmen were on board, including twenty members of the Glider Pilot Regiment. Only six airmen survived the incident; sixteen died in the crash, another died within hours from his injuries. In spite of serious wounds, two of the survivors managed to reach the village of Mijanès to get help for the other survivors.[1][3]
FL588 originated from RAF Northolt in West London. Two Dakota planes took off at 09:00 on 5 December on a course for Marseilles to transport 20 glider pilots to France who were trained to pilot Horsa and Hamilcar gliders to carry men and equipment.
Around 15:30 one of the Dakota aircraft crashed on the Pic de la Camisette (alt 2426m ), striking the north face above the Roc de la Musique before coming down facing south-east near a lake. The exact cause of the crash is not known, although it is known that the aircraft came down in a blizzard.
Seven pilots survived the crash initially, with varying degrees of injury but seven died during the night from injuries.[1]
The bodies of eleven men were recovered from the crash site between 10 and 19 December, and buried in Mijanès. The search was suspended due to adverse weather conditions, but in the spring of 1945 a further six bodies were brought down from the crash site after the snow had melted. All of the airmen who died in the crash were later reburied in the Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.[/color]
My Grandfather was one of the spring 1945 recovery party, and is the source of the photo, sadly, this was the best I could get the photo to come out.
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The latest addition to the RAF fleet - easy I guess, but bonus points for her tail number and exact nomenclature!
Cheers
DJ[/quote]
Going for the double:
Boeing RC-135W
I think the RAF name will be ‘Airseeker’ (or is that the name of the overall project?) similar to a USAF ‘Rivet Joint’.
Just found out that they will be ‘new’ conversions from KC-135 tankers rather than existing USAF Rivet Joints. She’ll be no stranger to our skies - here she is at Mildenhall in 1984!:
(Link gives the USAF and RAF ‘tail numbers’!)[/quote]
Very Good - I’ll give you full marks for that 
RC135-W (not V/W)
She will indeed be ZZ664 but there isn’t a name for the aircraft yet. Airseeker is, indeed, the project name.
Here she is arriving for conversion: