Thanks Kevin - generous as ever...some confusion over those Burnelli types, though.
No confusion over this ugly bug - she's been here before, but a long time ago - please proceed when recognised - (hope they had strong hinges on that tail section !)
This is the Puddle Jumper (N37BP) by Bryce and Joe Petersen of W.Virginia, ca.1980/1981. Engine was a 55hp HAPI/VW1600, mostly composite construction.
Reported as a scaled-up version of a 1/4 scale model with which the designers set several FAI records in 1978.
OH suggested, all agree?, go-ahead then
and for the coming new year, I like to wish you double of what you wish for me.
Can never resist a challenge for a pint - it is Friday after all !
Did some digging and found out that one Hiller was used for bauxite surveying in Cape York - which is as far north as you can get in Oz.
My apologies. Only now have I read the edit to your prepenultimate post, Kevin. Hitherto I'd assumed that the baton had passed to lefty, as he'd answered the hard part of the challenge. I think that equity dictates that this is how it should be. So Scotland, we await you!
It was only a supplementary, which merely required a bit of Googling, so the baton rests fairly and squarely in France. I have nothing for the moment anyway.
If my understanding is correct, 1953 saw her only flights (and to use that word is to stretch a point). The picture shows her as a scrap heap queen in the following year. Bonus p[o]ints for identifying the source of the engines in the foreground!
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