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chornedsnorkack
5th Dec 2005, 14:24
What are the successfully flown planes having miniature width?

From
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0214.shtml

the interesting ones:
Sky Baby - biplane, span 210 cm, first flown 1952, stays in a museum

Bumble Bee - biplane, span 200 cm, first flown 1984.

Baby Bird - monoplane, span 190 cm, first flown 1984.

So, can anyone add any more examples - planes with wingspan under 250 cm that have flown and not crashed? What is their performance in air? On landing? On takeoff? On taxiing?

Micky
5th Dec 2005, 14:55
Hi there go to aliners.net
look up cri cri don't know how to post the link...:{
As far as I know smallest twin in the wourld...powerd by two lawnmower engines:}

It is fully "Kunstflugtauglich":cool: :ok: :E

Sorry do not know the english word

Cherio Micky


Grat fun watching it at a display:D

I will try

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=888657&WxsIERv=Pbybzona%20ZP-15%20Pev-Pev&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Hagvgyrq&QtODMg=Qhafsbyq%20%28RTGQ%29&ERDLTkt=HX%20-%20Ratynaq&ktODMp=Whar%204%2C%202005&BP=0&WNEb25u=Naqerj%20Fvzcfba&xsIERvdWdsY=T-FUBT&MgTUQtODMgKE=Cnexrq%20nybatfvqr%20gur%20ratvar%20bs%20T-OQKW%20-%20gungf%20fbzr%20fvmr%20qvssrerapr%21&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=7638&NEb25uZWxs=2005-07-28%2022%3A01%3A57&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=001&static=yes&width=1006&height=664&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg%20%3D%20%27Pbybzona%20ZP-15%20Pev-Pev%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=4&prev_id=888658&next_id=418378

od dear somebody help:confused:

amanoffewwords
5th Dec 2005, 15:13
There you go

http://images.airliners.net/photos/middle/7/5/6/888657.jpg

Ads another dimension to the no-frills market ;)

Micky
5th Dec 2005, 15:20
Size does matter.....:}

chornedsnorkack
5th Dec 2005, 15:41
The Cri-Cri is nice... Though I was looking especially for planes with short wingspan - under 250 cm.

Micky
5th Dec 2005, 15:45
sorry thought that the cri cri would be under 250cm...can't be much more...

Ps The reg should have been G-SHAG

haha:}

Farrell
5th Dec 2005, 16:12
Can remember one of those Cri-Cris crashing at the Fairyhouse Airshow sometime in the 1980's

Mad little plane!

Oshkosh George
5th Dec 2005, 16:18
Getting varied results, but the Cri Cri wingspan appears to be 4.9m,so nowhere near the thread discussion topic.

treadigraph
5th Dec 2005, 16:19
I seem to remember a pic in the EAA Museum of "Bumble Bee" flying over San Fran Bay with a P-51D formating in the background... was I dreaming...?

First time I saw a Cri-Cri was at the PFA in '83 - pilot was turning it upside down with abandon, can't say I thought it looked suited to such antics!

The Cameraman
6th Dec 2005, 05:30
Hi Chaps,

I remember the Cri Cri taking off from the roof of a Mitsubishi Shogun, hence the registration.

Regards

Reggie AKA The Cameraman

chornedsnorkack
6th Dec 2005, 08:13
What was the airspeed where the Cri-Cri took off? And how was it attached to the Shogun?

The Cameraman
6th Dec 2005, 18:58
Hi There,

the Shogun had a roofrack attached, accelerated to around 50mph and the Cri Cri zoomed off! I remember a locking mechanism holding the aircraft to the rack, which was released when the pilot was ready.

It made a wonderful sight.

APG
7th Dec 2005, 16:19
Here's the Bumble Bee thats now in the Pima Museum at Davis Monthan

http://www.airteamimages.com/imageFiles/uploads/18876_800.jpg

cheers

Paul

barit1
9th Dec 2005, 14:07
Here is the NASM (http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/stitssa2.htm) website; the Sky Baby is on display at EAA museum, Oshkosh, WI.