The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

Note the swiveling wings. Everything designed by this company was a little off the beaten path.

[srgalahad]

"off-the-beaten-path" led me right to George Cornelius

but it took some time to confirm the LW-1 of 1930

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0-%200181.html

Rob

[Moses03]

Rob scores a direct hit!

You have the board Sir-

[srgalahad]

for once I may even be able to contribute(?) to the Show of Horrors...

Attachment 11024

[Moses03]

My first thought was that this is a roadable plane but the 3-wheel layout would make that a bit unwieldly. Reminds me a little of the Convair 103 with a tractor engine.

[srgalahad]

My first thought was that this is a roadable plane but the 3-wheel layout would make that a bit unwieldly.

Women call it "intuition" Attachment 11073

As for the 3 wheel layout, here's an excerpt from a design seminar:

"This is a simple experiment you can do at your local shopping center parking lot. Find a lot with few cars. A slight down hill slope is helpful, as you will not have
to push too hard to keep the cart going. Pick a cart with good wheels and casters that turn freely. Try it first with the casters in front. Give it a good
straight push down hill. It should track like an arrow down hill like in our pictures on the left. It is worth having a helper to catch the cart before it crashes
into any cars.
Now turn the cart around with the fixed wheels forward and the casters in the rear. It may take a few tries to get a straight launch. It may go
straight for a while but like in our photos on the right, something will get the front wheels out of line and start them going sideways. The casters in the back can
do nothing to stop the increasing turn rate. It is a classic ground loop. Some times, if the slope is steep enough to keep the cart going it will make a 180
and go the rest of the way down the hill as God intended, with casters forward and fixed wheels in back. "

[wout]

It could be a carbon copy of the Whitaker-Zuck Plane-Mobile of 1946

[Moses03]

Gosh, there is a website for everything! Not a copy Wout. I think you got it.

http://plane-mobile.com/index.html

[lefty]

According to Aerofiles, Mr Zuck got his name as first billing ! In fact, it's the very last entry in that wondrous site.
It seemed to be one of the great American obsessions, the roadable plane, or flying car, but it never really made much sense (thankfully - imagine the aerial equivalent of a six-lane highway....)

[wout]

Kevin, thanks for finding the link on the Plane-Mobile. Great!. I think this should serve as reminder that each and every interesting plane (especially the one-offs) should have its own site.
What I learned (Mike pointed that out already) that is is the Zuck-Whitaker Plane-Mobile. Then the year is 1947 and not 1946. On plane-mobile.com/index.html I missed info on the role of Mr. Whitaker. Was he co-builder of something like that?.
And of course the Plane-Mobile 2. Sadly it never flew.
Do I break the rules when I do the next post?

[wout]

If I break the rules I can be fired (like a certain high-placed military person...)
This one is not an ag-lane or trainer, but is used to test stomachs

[srgalahad]

If I break the rules I can be fired (like a certain high-placed military person...)

Whitaker-Zuck, Zuck Whitaker, 1946, 1947, tomatoe, tomato --- but beer is beer even if some is better than others...

This one is not an ag-lane or trainer, but is used to test stomachs

Now, we may not fire you but other nasty things can happen with high-G projectile evacuations...

More on the Planemobile attached ( along with other goodies)

[lefty]

Interesting stuff, Rob.

I passed a three-wheeler the other day (the dear old Reliant Robin still wheezes around these parts) and one thing became apparent - he was having to work twice as hard to avoid the many potholes that still haven't been filled in !

Re small-engined cars - I am one of those fortunate people who can say he easily overtook a Messerschmitt - in a Spitfire.......

A couple of my pals did manage to take off in a car once. They lived.

Back to business - haven't a clue about Walter's aerobatic machine except that looks like an Italian flag - but it's got me nowhere.........

Is it a CAP model ??

[wout]

Mike, have trust in yourself (and wth these temperatures).
No, not CAP, yes Italian flag

[lefty]

Would it be a Terzi Katana T30, then ??