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Here's a quickie without a piccy.

 

What aircraft had a turboprop in the nose and a turbo fan in the tail?

Test bed Lancaster - mamba up front and adder down the back plus 4 merlins on the wing.

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Student Pilot - Correct on the ladies ID, her often mis-spelt name is Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, famous businesswoman and aviatrix of renown. The first woman to break the sound barrier in an aircraft.

As regards the aircraft ID - sorry, not even remotely correct, try again.

 

Old K - Not really a friend of Howard Hughes - but he did lease the aircraft from her after much badgering, with an option to purchase. Not one of Howard Hughes toys, but he greatly desired the aircraft.

 

Kasper - Sorry, not correct on the aircraft ID. Do you really suffer from misogyny that much, that you'd completely dismiss a famous aviatrix as unworthy of even being identified? :no no no:

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Mothguy is correct. This particular Northrop Gamma 2G of Cochran's went through three major engine alterations.

 

Initially fitted with a Curtiss Conqueror V12 (V-1750), this engine proved troublesome, and constantly overheated, and had supercharger problems.

 

The Curtiss was replaced with a 14 cylinder P&W Twin Wasp during Cochran's ownership. I personally believe the original engine made for superb aircraft lines, but it was not a successful engine.

 

During Howard Hughes lease period, he re-engined the aircraft with a 9 cylinder Wright Cyclone (SGR-1820-G5), specifically to win the long-distance speed race from L.A. to N.Y.

 

Cochran did not sell the Gamma 2G to Hughes and she recovered it from him at the end of his lease period - and the Wright Cyclone was removed and the Twin Wasp was again re-installed, in April 1936.

 

Oddly, the Wright Cyclone installed by Hughes was not certified, due to its newness, and the Gamma with this engine was never approved for flight by the U.S. Dept of Commerce.

 

Sadly, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair in a landing accident in July 1936, and was written off.

 

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Student Pilot - Correct on the ladies ID, her often mis-spelt name is Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, famous businesswoman and aviatrix of renown. The first woman to break the sound barrier in an aircraft.

As regards the aircraft ID - sorry, not even remotely correct, try again.

 

Old K - Not really a friend of Howard Hughes - but he did lease the aircraft from her after much badgering, with an option to purchase. Not one of Howard Hughes toys, but he greatly desired the aircraft.

 

Kasper - Sorry, not correct on the aircraft ID. Do you really suffer from misogyny that much, that you'd completely dismiss a famous aviatrix as unworthy of even being identified? :no no no:

It’s not misogyny- the thread is identify the aircraft not the pilot.

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