Grazie Carlo!
My next offer is an unusual craft that truly flew and isn’t a glider. Have fun.
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gX
I remember the pix but don't know the exact item as it's a missile.
Chris
As nobody digs deeper, I'll order a for Chris!
and here is the "full story":
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gX
East coast USA, it's an Elias EC-1 Aircoupe of 1928.
That's it. I figure it wouldn't last long.
Chris
Presumably made for a film as I think its basically a Chipmunk masquerading as something a lot older....
Keith
It's one of the aeroplanes used in 'The Great Waldo Pepper' film (1975). There it's called the 'Styles Skystreak'!
It is the fictional Stiles Skystreak that crashed trying to perform an outside loop at an airshow in Waldo Pepper. But before that it was a garden variety Chipmunk first flown in 1951 so the nod goes to Keith.
I think the spoked wheels were a nice touch!
Thank you Moses, I was wondering to which part of the undercart the flying wires were attached to, & did they flex with the stroke of the oleo?
Anyway, here is my offering that I don't remember seeing before.
Keith
Chris, correct .
Over to you.
Keith
Hi Chris
I have this chopper as the "Viki Helicopter" built after he came to the USA and nearing completion around 1998/1999.
Undersrtand engine was an Allison 250 turbine and coukld be that much of the fuselage came from an Enstrom 280.
Maybe not flown as in my notes I see that Mr. Viki deceased prior to flight testing. Have no idea whether an N-number was assigned and equally no idea about involvement of Mr. Dustin Harley (from Utah?). Seems she was still around 2009/2010.
Sorry, important part fell out of the text.
Design of Finnish-born Mr. Viki who imigrated to the USA.
This snowwhite has been around for a couple of years.
Looks like an Ilyushin 103 on steroids
Two countries involved in this 5-seater
5-seater is a good hint! I was asuming a six-seater for too long.
It's the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Mahindra Aerospace NM5 or C-NM5 from India first flown in Australia in 2011.
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gX
hi giruXX
That is her! The Australian connection is via GippsAero (of GA-200 and GA-8 fame). The prototype was VH-XNM.
My shoebox-notes tell me that (possibly) a second proto flew in India in 2012, but I have never seen photos or similar to confirm this.
Your turn sir!
Let's keep to color pictures:
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gX
Could be a Van's with a Wankel-engine.
No side-by-side-seating, so probably a RV-4, Uli?
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