Originally Posted by
fauteuil volant
Your reasoning is cogent, Mechta, but how do you reconcile that with the apparent scale of the aeroplane? I can't see how anyone of a 'normal' size could get into it in order to pilot it. And if it is a pilotted aeroplane, dating from c.1924, I'm at a loss to understand how the machine could have remained 'off the radar' for nearly a century.
Maybe some slim guy built if for himself - I wouldn't have problems fitting inside it - with the head out the top, of course.
I am slim, ok, but not extremely so, 181 cm tall, 73 kg, and people were smaller 100 years ago than they are today. I don't know what it is either, but it doesn't look like something from the Lympne trials.