Thank you, Kevin. We haven't had a helicopter for a while, so perhaps try this. It won't be any surprise that it's a homebuilt. It may be more of a surprise is that, according to what should be a reliable source, it flew!
Thank you, Kevin. We haven't had a helicopter for a while, so perhaps try this. It won't be any surprise that it's a homebuilt. It may be more of a surprise is that, according to what should be a reliable source, it flew!
made in Nigeria. If it flew it was pushed over a cliff.
Chris
You have the country, Chris. It is said that, under its own power (a Honda Civic auto engine), it rose to the height of seven feet - and there's no mention of the pilot employing a seven foot high cliff face to assist him to do so!
Nope, not on your life would I try that, nor not in my life which, if I did try it, would likely end quicklyOriginally Posted by pomme homme
"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
Built in Kano, fifteen years ago, allegedly from - although this may be apocryphal - the remains of a crashed Boeing 747 and car parts.
I don't think that there's any point in persisting with this one. The helicopter dosn't have a designation but it was designed and built by Mubarak Abdullahi in Kano, Nigeria, in 2007. Open house!
A simple search does not throw this one up, so heregoes:
Keith
Another British non-starter (a bit like our Winter Olympians). The Britten-Norman Nymph, described as an 'expensive copy of a US plane' built for a market that just wasn't there.
Now if John and Des had instead called it the Britten-Norman Scottish Rugby Football Team .....
Spot on Lefty, & with a bit of modification she became the NAC Freelance, which didn't catch on either.
Over to you
Keith
Thank you Keith - here's one that didn't go much further either -
That, Mike, is the Deicke Doppeldecker (=biplane) from
Surprising conicidence!!I prepared to write:
That Sir ist the Arthur Deicke biplane from 1930-31
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gX
Well of course you are both correctbut Robert hit the tape a few minutes ahead, so over to him....
Mike, are you participant in the aviaquiz? I know that photo only from there and recognized it immediately.
On with a monoplane.
I recall seeing the Nymph at Bembridge one time,
It's demountable wings were removed ( IIRC it had been designed to be able to be towed on road, behind a car)
Ttfn
Pete
A European one-off from a well-known company.
Wilbault 368 Robert.
Last known photo of it:
https://aviation-ancienne.forumactif...on-wibault-368
You have it, Kevin!
A rather unusual design for a Wibault better known for their parasol fighters.
Over to Texas.
Up next, a grainy biplane.
Conceived of in 1927. Constructed and tested in late 1928. Languishing in the corner of an aerodrome in 1929.
From a well documented stable.
Nakajima N-35
Chris
That's the one.
From a well know firm
Chris
Junkers A50 Junior?
Keith
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