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Alternate seating arrangements are reclining or semi reclining, as in some gliders, and in F1 race cars, or prone as shown in posts #267 and #301 of the Guess this Aircraft thread.

Text from the page where this image originated:

All of these photos are computer generated forensic composite illustrations. None of them are official USAF photos. Since the USAF seems very reluctant to de-classify these birds, these illustrations were created to give people an idea of what they looked like. Yes, they really did exist, but due to some stability problems, this particular model was scrapped.

Another page says it is a wooden mockup of a design being tested by the USAF based on Nazi plans. Put the two statements together to work out why it looks like it is flying.

This would not have been an easy shot to get.

Here's some for the Vans fans from the Vans Air Force FB group.

Report says left engine torn from wing, while photo clearly shows it to be the right engine. Good outcome however.

Also notice in another report at the foot of the page that, for the third time in six months, an aircraft was cleared to land on a runway already occupied at San Francisco. Fortunately the plane was ordered to go around in time.

Sorry, a mistake in my identification in post 302. The correct name is Beecraft, not Beechcraft.

Groan

You make it just too easy. Beechcraft Wee Bee. The prototype was destroyed when the San Diego Air and Space Museum burned down in 1978.

Looking through the Staggerwing link above, I came across VH-FNS. Here is a photo I took of that aircraft at the RAAF 100th Anniversary Airshow at Point Cook four days before my cancer operation in 2014. A couple of months later the aircraft was seriously damaged. From the Aviation Safety Network, this report: Accident date 31/05/2014.

The light aircraft went down in a paddock adjacent to Ferguson Road, Dardanup. The 1942 Beech D17-S Staggerwing biplane sustained substantial damage. The sole occupant received serious injuries.

This is one of my more unique photos, used in a few publications, as it is the aircraft missing as Flt MH370. The photo was taken in 2011.

Some more of my personal favourites-

The first one is a favourite because I have flown it. See all of these and hundreds more on my flickr.com album, link below.

A new one from Vintage Bonanzas Group , a turboprop Bo.

OME, the image didn't show on my PC.

The saggy fuse is the give-away.

Another photo reversed to fool us. Goodyear Inflatoplane.

Ekranoplan. I think that's the class of aircraft, not sure if it's the name of this one. Sorry - found it. Bartini Beriev VVA-14 antisubmarine vertical take-off amphibious aircraft prototype.

A few more from my own collection.

Said it wouldn't take long.

This one shouldn't take long either.

The nearest I can come up with is the MiG 1-42 MFI.

Here's a little background to my mystery photo. One of the people involved in the design of this aircraft was Chauncey M. Vought.When he signed his first pilot's certificate, he used the first name Chance, hence the company Chance Vought which went on to build many military aircraft for the USAF. As for the plane, it flew a few times between August and November, 1911, at Cicero Park, Chicago.

The involvement in this aircraft no doubt had some influence in the design of the Vought XF5U Flying Pancake, or flapjack.

As this site likes the ones with the little wheel at the back, here are a few of them.

The old photos from the 60's were scanned from 35mm slides. Here are some more recent digital ones.

You mean the Bonanzas? I'm getting close to 50 from the Vintage Bonanza Group on Facebook, not to mention all of my own of all sorts of planes. Here are a couple of my vintage ones.

Here are a couple from my collection. (Didn't notice I'd slipped past 2000 posts).