Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge
Better than Cessna 172 lookalikes though innit! 
Viewed from below and front. This was the protype and it's accurately silhouetted - it looked a lot more conventional afterwards.
Viewed from below and front. This was the protype and it's accurately silhouetted - it looked a lot more conventional afterwards.
If you look at the perspective of the gondola it's not from behind.
I have to invigilate an exam - back in about an hour.
More clues then, but here's one to be going on with:
hot air.
I have to invigilate an exam - back in about an hour.
More clues then, but here's one to be going on with:
hot air.
Hooked up to classroom computer.
1980s.
Apologies - it was modified from a hot-air balloon.
Yes. 
edit: production versions after the prototype were hot air and pressurised.
From the 1970s?
Apologies - it was modified from a hot-air balloon.
......platform open gondola
edit: production versions after the prototype were hot air and pressurised.
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Sorry david but an aside ........ I've got to share this find of a truly magnificent aircraft!!!
Forget your Fulcrums and Flankers, the Blinder was an extraordinary and wonderfully elegant machine!!!!
Your idea of speed, David?
RR
Forget your Fulcrums and Flankers, the Blinder was an extraordinary and wonderfully elegant machine!!!!
Your idea of speed, David?
RR
Your idea of speed, David?
I am sorry you don't like balloons - I dont care for high-wing old monoplanes either.
If you are sticking around I'll give you a juicy clue.
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Morning LM ,
Sorry, out all day yesterday!
Ah so Glasshopper!!
Dunno much about strange balloons, but Gogglefucious says modified hot air balloon is a rare photograph of the prototype (with original envelope) of Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics "Bee-6"
,Sorry, out all day yesterday!
modified from a hot-air balloon
Dunno much about strange balloons, but Gogglefucious says modified hot air balloon is a rare photograph of the prototype (with original envelope) of Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics "Bee-6"
