Welcome back Carlo. Keep us busy
Next challenge has a pointed tail. The fuselage lines could/should help.
Bienvenuti, Carlo !
Walter, is there some Tipsy in this one ??
I'm still trying to figure out the bent prop tip?
Hi Mike, sorry, but no Belgian connection
Hi Kevin. No idea about the prop (accident?) In this colour picture the prop is somewhat clearer.
Aircraft is from a productive family.
Shades of Wittman?
Hi pomme homme
No Wittman. but from same country. Designers/builders better known for their biplanes
This is the Sorrell-Robinson HS-1 Wenoso. Registration N1041 and built in the mid-1960s.
Aircraft in 1971 involved in accident which may be reason for the strange prop. Sadly N1041 was in Dec.1990 lost when involved in a fatal crash.
The bipe I referred to was of course the SNS-7 Hiperbipe.
Time for OPEN HOUSE
We have not had an oddball in a while...
Thanks for the info Keith.
Here is a better photo of the oddball. It had a very novel feature and not sure if it managed more than a hop or two.
J W Smith, Cicero IL. 1929 (in Aerofiles)?
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Not the Smith effort as this one showed up the following year. (Interesting that two designers had the same idea about the same time).
There is a Aerofile entry...
Last gasp...
I found a video online of it being flight tested on 2-12-1930, out on the west coast USA. It did a few high speed taxi runs but never left the ground. (It seemed to suffer from directional stability).
got it: Norris Foolproof Aeroplane 1930[X99M]
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Is the novel feature that the designer believed that any fool could fly it?
It is the Norris. Over to Uli.
PH: That and the idea of a pendulum wing assembly.
Let's try another parasol:
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That's probably a States B-3 less its spinner.
correct, Robert
registration: NC10369
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Next one from about the same period.
A Brit ! That, Robert, is the one and only Hendy Hobo, with its unmistakeable Pobjoy engine.
You got it, Mike!
It is the Hendy Hobo after her conversion.
Over to Scotland!
Thank you sir. Just to show I'm not entirely obsessed with water babies, here's a rather smart biplane - it won't last long, so when you get it, please proceed, as I'm out for the day.
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