# What aircraft is this?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 1, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019 "2012-08-01T02:19:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/1 "2012-08-01T02:19:47Z")
[I mean the one in the painting on the wall behind the guy.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/12544059@N03/7688365858/in/photostream)
Maybe made by Vought (the two desk models are Vought planes)
Looks like a ground attack aircraft – lots of weapons pylons under the wings
Twin jets mounted very similar to an A-10 Thunderbolt.
Possibly a 3rd engine, or anyway some kind of big honkin’ air scoop, under the nose.
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### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/2 "2012-08-01T02:27:06Z")
It’s a joke painting. Vought A-7 fuselage with A-10 wings & empennage.
IIRC the AX prototypes (A-9 & A-10) had to prove themselves superior to the A-7DII in order to be considered for the final selection trials.
Probably someones joke about how Vought could keep making mud-movers for the USAF.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/3 "2012-08-01T02:46:41Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#):
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> It’s a joke painting. Vought A-7 fuselage with A-10 wings & empennage…
Is this a serious answer? I’m not real sure, and it doesn’t particularly look like an A-10 wing, and not at all like the tail.
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### Author:  [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/4 "2012-08-01T03:13:55Z")
Yep, it’s a serious answer, I’d say.
The nose is distinctively an A-7. The tail is a combination of the A-7’s single vertical stabiliser, and the A-10’s twin.
The wing is pure A-10, straight with the undercarriage pods a bit out from the fuselage.
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### Author:  [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/5 "2012-08-01T03:30:19Z")
It looks like a descendant of [this](http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/Lemke'sFlapJackPage.htm) plane.
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/6 "2012-08-01T03:36:07Z")
It’s a joke airplane drawn from the A-7 and A-10. I think I’ve seen the same question here or elsewhere before.
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### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/7 "2012-08-01T03:47:51Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Is this a serious answer? I’m not real sure, and it doesn’t particularly look like an A-10 wing, and not at all like the tail.
[A-7D side-view](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerrit_kok_collection/6185529639/)
[A-10 3/4 front-view](http://images.wikia.com/aircraft/images/3/35/Fairchild-a10-thunderbolt2-warthog.jpg)
You be the judge.
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/8 "2012-08-01T03:58:24Z")
> [@Fubaya](#):
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> It’s a joke airplane drawn from the A-7 and A-10. I think I’ve seen the same question here or elsewhere before.
Yep:
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-526217.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-526217.html)
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/9 "2012-08-01T04:13:18Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> Yep:
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-526217.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-526217.html)
Yes, and I pulled the screen shot from the same program mentioned in that thread.
Pretty bad documentary, BTW, a lot of incorrect information and sloppy script. They even got the number of Japanese carriers sunk at Midway wrong.
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/10 "2012-08-01T15:19:00Z")
Very obviously a [jackalope](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jackalope&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1599&bih=809&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=CUkZULKeAoa40QWIzYAQ). The cockpit and aerodynamics have been compromised to make room for an engine air inlet that is not connected to an engine.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/11 "2012-08-01T15:22:05Z")
It was, and remains, a 7-10 Split.
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### Author:  [@Blakeyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blakeyrat)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/12 "2012-08-01T23:19:30Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Is this a serious answer? I’m not real sure, and it doesn’t particularly look like an A-10 wing, and not at all like the tail.
It might not be an A-10 wing, but it’s sure as hell not an A-7 wing. There’s more than a little artistic license on the artist’s part.
I vote: until someone comes up with a photograph of this machine, it’s a joke painting.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/13 "2012-08-02T02:41:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> [I mean the one in the painting on the wall behind the guy.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/12544059@N03/7688365858/in/photostream)
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> Maybe made by Vought (the two desk models are Vought planes)
> Looks like a ground attack aircraft – lots of weapons pylons under the wings
> Twin jets mounted very similar to an A-10 Thunderbolt.
> Possibly a 3rd engine, or anyway some kind of big honkin’ air scoop, under the nose.
The planes on the desk are Vought Corsairs: the F4U Corsair, and the A-7 Corsair II.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/14 "2012-08-02T04:59:39Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> It was, and remains, a 7-10 Split.
I hate you and will hate you for at least another 30 seconds. 😉
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/15 "2012-08-02T12:50:05Z")
I’m going to send an email to the Voight museum about it. I’ll let you know when I hear back from them.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/16 "2012-08-02T16:48:21Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> I’m going to send an email to the Voight museum about it.
Is that where they display Jon Voight’s Oscar?
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/17 "2012-08-02T16:57:38Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> It was, and remains, a 7-10 Split.
Fantastic! I was bowled over!
Despite the widespread availability of spares, eventually the military abandoned the 7-10 Split in favor of strike fighters.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/18 "2012-08-02T17:00:10Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> Is that where they display Jon Voight’s Oscar?
No, but I think his car is there.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/19 "2012-08-02T17:21:28Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> Is that where they display Jon Voight’s Oscar?
[pssst!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15334867&postcount=8)
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-aircraft-is-this/630019/20 "2012-08-04T00:09:10Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> [pssst!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15334867&postcount=8)
What does that have to do with me riffing on how you misspelled “Vought?” 🙂
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