@BG: see PN for the Arado.
The two-seat chopper is an amateur design that must be still around. It has been restored after 2000.
@BG: see PN for the Arado.
The two-seat chopper is an amateur design that must be still around. It has been restored after 2000.
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Arado J.1 thread:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...ious-Arado-J-1
actual mystery aircraft:
Our chopper comes from Eastern Europe. Its design started in 1959 and construction in 1960. Its ground testing began in 1968. It appears in several editions of JAWA and on the web.
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hi giruXX
Maybe the Sobkow WS-4 Świerszcz by Stanislav Sobkow, Poland?
This is how I have it. I hope it is correct.
Over to Wout
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Thank you giruXX
When originally flown (1968) the WS-4 had a 4-wheel u/c and a tail section made of welded tubing. After modifications it was known as the WS-4 Bis and had a 3-wheel gear and single tubular tail boom.
Next challenge is a motorglider prototype (however, beware!)
Well Walter, nobody else is diving in - not too many glider men here - so I'll walk into your trap. Obviously we're meant to say this is a Scheibe Motorfalke of some variety, but I can't find a mid-wing one.... also the wee outrigger wheelie things are too close together.
It's presumably something much more obscure, eh ?
Hi Mike
You are so very close!. Not a Motorfalke of sort, but the prototype of the SF-28 Tandemfalke (D-KAFJ). This prototype was configured with mid wings and also slight FSW (Forward Swept Wings).
The 120 or so production aircraft were low wing/unswept wing sopecimen.
May I invite you for the next one?
Thank you Walter - you are being generous
Here's a festive fun machine which will not hang around for long !
I think that is Réné Arnoux' post-WW1 'bitsa' - a tailless biplane, constructed from parts of older aeroplanes in 1919/20, which was a 'proof of theory' machine which flew in 1922. However although I believe that I recognise the photograph, I cannot now find a picture of it!
I think that's about as much as we're going to get, Mike. What would really be interesting is a clip of the wretched thing in flight......
Thank you, Mike. I've finally found the picture that I had in mind. It shows this aeroplane in its later form with rather more by way of fins and a rudder. As you'll see, it carries the experimental registration F-ESEL. But to complicate matters further, that registration is recorded as having been allocated to a SPCA Météore. I can't even surmise that the Météore was one of Arnoux' donor airframes - because it postdated the crash and destruction of his bitsa by several years. But enough of that. I'll look for something else that, hopefully, will be less arcane.
The Bircham Beetle, perhaps?
"The fuselage was allegedly built using the rear portion of a Bristol F.2B mated to a new forward section extending forward from cockpit to firewall. It is also said that the wing comprised the lower mainplane of a German Fokker D.VII sesquiplane."
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No perhaps about it. It is!
Over to you, sir.
What about this one to continue with?
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Armstrong Whitworth Apollo through the mist....
Keith
AW.55 (first named Achilles and Avon before finally becoming Apollo)
looks like the first prototype G-AIYN struggling into the air.
Another of the gifts dropped on the British aerospace industry by the Brabazon Committee. Note in the picture below the #3 prop is feathered - probably to prove it could (barely & likely empty) stay aloft on three engines.
Dang! That's what happens when my internet is chilled by an Alberta winter... or I take too long to type the post.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
both are correct
Keith came first
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Thank you Gxx, so in a similar vein...
Keith
I think dear old Freddie Laker was involved with this one - the Aviation Traders Accountant. Quite why anyone would want to name an aircraft after a bean-counter is a mystery...
Could have been a Freddie Laker in house joke?
Correct Mike, over to you - Make it a slug of Highland Park.
Keith
Now you're talking ! Had a tasting of Orkney whiskies last week in our local - some old Highland Parks and Scapas - my favourite the 21-year-old H.P. Sadly at over £100 a bottle it's probably beyond Santa's means !
Here's one for our faithful trimotor aficionados - (I'm getting a strange attachments pop-up window with no thumbnails -is it just me ?)
This sausage might be a Latécoère 4
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Indeed, gX, maintaining the fine tradition of Gallic aeronautical pulchritude.......
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