Name that plane...

[Wing Nut]

Can anyone tell me what this is?  :o

[Theis]

I'll name it... Bouncing Betty!!





(A ugly French Farman?)

[Ivan]

step by step analysis...

Not a civil plane
Too large for a fighter, should be a bomber then
Name in the right lower corner isnt a contructor or design bureau

Anyway... its a Grigorovich TB-5, and it nearly crashed on one of its test flights

More info Here

[ozzy72]

You're very good Ivan! I just spent over 40 mins finding out what she was

[Wing Nut]

Just goes to show how many people in the world are smarter than I am!  :o  I never would have figured it out.

History of aircraft construction in the USSR?  :o  

[Hagar]

It's very similar to the Farman F.222. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farman_F.222

[Mictheslik]

I was thinking russian (the writing and the fact it was in a commando comic a while back) but couldnt put a name to it.

.mic

[Ivan]

I was thinking russian (the writing and the fact it was in a commando comic a while back) but couldnt put a name to it.

.mic

99% sure that they had a Tupolev SB-2 pictured there (if it was in spanish civil war republican colors)

[Mictheslik]

99% sure that they had a Tupolev SB-2 pictured there (if it was in spanish civil war republican colors)

Nope it was definately not an SB2...I cant remember what the story was called but it was set in  Finland.

.Mic

[Ivan]

[quote]

Nope it was definately not an SB2...I cant remember what the story was called but it was set in

[Felix/FFDS]

I'm seeing this a bit late, but my first thought was a
bomber version of the Fokker F.32 airliner..