Rust's Cessna 172

Super18 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:51 am **Posts:** 21

I need some help....
If any one is familiar with Rust's Cessna 172B D-ECJB, could tell me what is the marking on the vertical fin?

Totally off the wall but some one is trying to model it and we are trying to figure out what it is?

Thanks...

hang the expense · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:53 pm

Wow! I had forgotten all about that.I remember some heads rolled in the Russian air defence command.

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:08 pm

That thing's in a museum somewhere, I thought. (?)

Ztex · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:20 pm

It is now being displayed at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin

flightsimer · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:37 pm

My guess is that blob at the base of other vertical is something derogatory due to the fact that it is covered up or is no longer on the aircraft and because it has been air brushed out of photos. Another possibility is that it might be the logo of the flying club the plane belonged to. It's was not on the right side of the vertical, but instead was under the right wing.

Above that is the Skyhawk logo and above that the west German flag

Super18 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:51 am **Posts:** 21

flightsimer wrote:

My guess is that blob at the base of other vertical is something derogatory due to the fact that it is covered up or is no longer on the aircraft and because it has been air brushed out of photos. Another possibility is that it might be the logo of the flying club the plane belonged to. It's was not on the right side of the vertical, but instead was under the right wing.

Above that is the Skyhawk logo and above that the west German flag

It was...If I read right, From an FBO/CLUB in Helsinki? Just can't figure out how "Figure out which club?"
It looks like a 'Flower Bulb?'

flightsimer · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:05 am

Super18 wrote:

flightsimer wrote:

My guess is that blob at the base of other vertical is something derogatory due to the fact that it is covered up or is no longer on the aircraft and because it has been air brushed out of photos. Another possibility is that it might be the logo of the flying club the plane belonged to. It's was not on the right side of the vertical, but instead was under the right wing.

Above that is the Skyhawk logo and above that the west German flag

It was...If I read right, From an FBO/CLUB in Helsinki? Just can't figure out how "Figure out which club?"
It looks like a 'Flower Bulb?'

The plane was from a flying club in his home town of Hamburg, not Helsinki.

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:58 am

It's still on the tail. It's just faded so badly that you almost can't see it any more. I beleive the plane was on a display tower in Japan for years.

Rajay · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:37 am

Doesn't look like a model "172B" to me. The early models like the 172B had a "fastback" fuselage with no back window, but a back window is plainly visible in the photos already included here. Did you mean to type a "N" per chance - as in a model 172N? (The "N" is right next to the "B" on a standard QWERTY keyboard....) I don't know that it's reallly a model 172N; that's just a logical guess.

shrike · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:56 am

Several sources give it as an F172P (F 'causes it's Reims, not Cessna)

Super18 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:51 am **Posts:** 21

flightsimer wrote:

Super18 wrote:

flightsimer wrote:

My guess is that blob at the base of other vertical is something derogatory due to the fact that it is covered up or is no longer on the aircraft and because it has been air brushed out of photos. Another possibility is that it might be the logo of the flying club the plane belonged to. It's was not on the right side of the vertical, but instead was under the right wing.

Above that is the Skyhawk logo and above that the west German flag

It was...If I read right, From an FBO/CLUB in Helsinki? Just can't figure out how "Figure out which club?"
It looks like a 'Flower Bulb?'

The plane was from a flying club in his home town of Hamburg, not Helsinki.

Well....
This is why I figured the club in Helsinki?
"the 19-year-old amateur pilot had flown a single-engine Cessna nearly 550 miles from Helsinki to the center of Moscow."

http://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=50929

This is a challenge!

RandolphB · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:50 am

POF used to have a poster of a pencil drawing of his aircraft landing that was titled, "Stealth 172". I always wanted a copy of it and never found it anywhere.....

flightsimer · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:55 am

Super18 wrote:

Well....
This is why I figured the club in Helsinki?
"the 19-year-old amateur pilot had flown a single-engine Cessna nearly 550 miles from Helsinki to the center of Moscow."

http://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=50929

This is a challenge!

that is correct, that was where the final flight originated, but his entire endevour was over a few days with a trip to Iceland. Here is a good article on it. (remove the device info at the end of the link if it won't open)

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-f ... evice=ipad

Rajay · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:10 pm

RandolphB wrote:

POF used to have a poster of a pencil drawing of his aircraft landing that was titled, "Stealth 172". I always wanted a copy of it and never found it anywhere.....

I was at ERAU in DAB at the time it happened. The check-in desk at the flightline had a drawing like that posted on the wall too. The one they had showed it with a big ole' bomb strapped undeneath - almost the same size as the airplane itself - and the caption read something like "Secret new F-172 stealth Soviet Airspace penetration fighter"

Maybe "Dune" had it right too - "the slow blade penetrates the shield...."

airnutz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:28 pm

Austere beginnings for the Kwisatz Haderach! :shock:

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