Thanks Rob. Soda it is - dear me, how awful it is, but one must pay for past indiscretion.......
Here's a bipe trainer that looks familiar - or is it ????
Thanks Rob. Soda it is - dear me, how awful it is, but one must pay for past indiscretion.......
Here's a bipe trainer that looks familiar - or is it ????
Obviously a license built De Havilland from Estonia! I just made that all up.
Come on, chaps, . Clue - Cirrus-Hermes IV engine.
But it's not British...not by a long way......there, I've given it away !
Still difficult to find, but I guess I was just lucky? If correct of course...
Tachikawa R-5 methinks.
Did need the Hermes tip though.
Keith
Strictly speaking, Keith, this was the Ishikawajima R-5, the Tachikawa name not being used until 1936 - this one dates back to '33.
However it is one and the same, so over to you, sir - a little cup of sake, perhaps ?
Nice one Keith. Don't know why I didn't think of the Orient.
Thanks Lefty, very generous of you. Must admit having found a picture of it I didn't look any further to find the name change!
The registration font seemed to remind me of Japanese aircraft.
For you floater types this might have appeared before, sorry if that is so.
Keith
This floater is listed in Aerofiles.......
Keith
Well done Green, thats what I have it as
Your turn.
Keith
RMT Bateleur?
Keith
Thank you Green, now going back a little in time to:
Keith
Very Good!!! For Green. (Thinks must try harder.....they're falling like flies!)
Your turn
Keith
Looks a if its got a Napier Dagger up front...possibly the Martin Baker MB2?
Keith
It was very grainy, but not many aircraft fitted with a Dagger, so more 'Hobsons choice'.
How about this weird one, must admit do not know a lot about it, so more experienced types out there could shed more light?
Keith
GAKKK!
A semi-tailless triplane? an early effort at an all-flying elevator? or someone who didn't quite understand the concept of a canard configuration?
Or, did the kit have some miss-sorted or miss-labeled parts?
"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
That Sir, is the Stacey Experimental of 1919.
Srgalahad; It probably came as a 'homebuilt' & the instructions were an early attempt by IKEA!!
Mind you the Vigilante & TSR2 both had tailplanes that acted as ailerons & elevators, there must be many more nowadays!
Moses, Well done Sir! Thats all I know about it though, nuffin on Google that I could find, nor Aerofiles.
Over to you.
Keith
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