The Great Aviation Nose Identification Quiz

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 “Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.” – Kanye West 

Aircraft have long been disobeying Kanye’s advice. Can you use your alarmingly comprehensive knowledge of aeroplanes to identify the following types from their schnozes alone? 

 

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If you think you know the answers, place them in the comments box below.

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48 comments

  1. Major Kong

    1. Canadair CRJ
    2. AMX
    3. B-58
    4. Mirage 2000
    5. Yak-28
    6. A-5 Vigilante
    7. I’m stumped. Some late-40s contra-rotating prototype but the canopy is different from anything that I recognize.
    8. Sukhoi T-50
    9. SU-15
    10. TU-128
    11. Macchi C.202
    12. EC-135

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  2. kshiban

    1. Canadair CRJ
    2. AMX
    3. B-58
    4. Mirage 2000
    5. Yak-28
    6. A-5 Vigilante
    7. I’m stumped. Some late-40s contra-rotating prototype but the canopy is different from anything that I recognize.
    8. Sukhoi T-50
    9. SU-15
    10. TU-128
    11. Macchi C.202
    12. EC-135

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  3. schuremschurem

    1. Canadair CRJ
    2. AMX
    3. B-58
    4. F15 in the back and a Eurofighter up close
    5. Early model Su-27
    6. A-5 Vigilante
    7. Westland Wyvern
    8. Sukhoi T-50
    9. SU-15
    10. TU-128
    11. Macchi C.202
    12. That failed israeli AWACS project.
    13. Tu-144

    Cribbed some from the above poster, substituted some of my own.

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  4. schurem

    1. Canadair CRJ
    2. AMX
    3. B-58
    4. F-15C in the back and Eurofighter in front
    5. Early model Su-27
    6. YF-17 Cobra
    7. Westland Wyvern
    8. Sukhoi T-50
    9. SU-15
    10. TU-128
    11. Macchi C.202
    12. That failed Israeli AWACS prototype
    13. Tu-144

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  13. Dan

    Not looking at other people’s answers and relying only on my elderly brain.

    1. Embraer 170
    2. Douglas A-4S
    3. Convair B-58
    4. Super Etendard and Mirage 2000
    5. MiG 29
    6. Northrop F-5A
    7. Martin Baker MB5
    8. That Chinese Thing?
    9. Su-15
    10. MiG 25
    11. Fiat G-55
    12. EC-135
    13.Tu-122

    …and I only cheated a little!

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  14. Jon Lake

    My guesses, without looking too hard…..

    1) May be a Bombardier CRJ

    2) IAR Soim
    3) B-58

    4) F-15E & Rafale
?
    5) Can’t see enough to tell if it’s an Su 27, a Tejas
 or an FBC-1/JH-7
    6) YF-17

    7) MB 5

    8) PAK/FA Su T50
    
9) Su-15

    10) Tu-128
    
11) Kawasaki Ki-61
    
12) EC-135

    13) F-104G

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  15. elleetoo

    I so ashamed. These were my answers before reading anyone else’s, kind of.
    1. Comet? Probably not
    2. No idea.
    3. Ooh, very pointy, plus stripy pitot tube. Supersonic barber shop?
    4. F15 and something else at the front which isn’t an F15, not least because it carries wingtip missiles
    5. Can fly, thus not an XFV12A, other than that, probably a jet.
    6. Pointy, also second most baroque pitot tube.
    7. MB5 I got another! Possibly.
    8. Something stealthy. Are you allowing drones, HK gang? If so, some kind of drone.
    9. Most baroque pitot tube winner! Also, very thin and pointy – one of those twin-engined Yak jets?
    10. Well that’s very green isn’t it? Looks a bit soviet to me, but I wouldn’t bet a brass farthing even on that guess, frankly.
    11. Mc 202? Or is that actually the name of a DJ? Not a Ka 61. that’s for sure. because I once glued a Revell model one of those together ineptly.
    12. You want to get that seen to, mate.
    13. Concorde? Probably not

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  16. Ric

    1. Antonov 148
    2. MB-339K
    3. B-58 Hustler
    4. F-15 & Rafale
    5. Tejas
    6. YF-17
    7. MB5
    8. Pak-FA/T-50
    9. Su-15 Flagon
    10. Tu-128
    11. Me209
    12. EC-135E
    13. Tu-144

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      • Ric

        Hooray! Wasn’t sure about the me209 and the tu144. I have an old twitter account I haven’t used in years, should probably re-activate or open another one. Thanks for the quiz Hushkit, it was a lot of fun!

  17. Edward

    No cheating so I’ve probably got loads wrong:
    1. BAE 146?
    2. L-39?
    3. B-58!
    4. Mirage 2000 and some kind of Flanker
    (?)
    5. MiG-25?
    6. T-38?
    7. MB.5
    8. PAK-FA?
    9. Flagon?
    10. Fiddler?
    11. Me 209
    12. Some kind of C-135 variant
    13. CONCORDE.

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  20. benne dose

    1. Don’t Know (IDK)
    2. Soko Galeb
    3. B-58 Hustler
    4. There’s a Tornado there
    5. Tejas. Who else has green?
    6, 7, 8 IDK
    9. Yakovlev something or other
    10, 11 No idea
    12. Failed Nimrod AWACS
    13. Gotta be Russian

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  22. AstroFoxWYM

    There must be a MB5 Baker there, together with a Sukhoi SU-15, and a stealth fighter(F35?), as well as an italian propellor fighter, and is the last one a F-104?

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