Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge

[RegDep]

Do you now wish to avail yourself of your previous win?

I did …….. :*

I can do the tutorial any time, too :O.

[Lightning Mate]

OK.

Is yours a Yank?

[RegDep]

No, it is not Mate.

[Lightning Mate]

OK, how about German?

[RegDep]

Not German, either, Mate, but closer.

[Lightning Mate]

Looks ugly enough to be French then!

[Lightning Mate]

My eyes are hurting so I'll leave you all on your own for an hour or so.

[RegDep]

It is French Mate, and the looks did not get any better when thy built it.

[Lightning Mate]

A.N.F. Les Mureaux 120 ?

[evansb]

Wibault 220 ? ( I use a question mark because I'm really not sure).

[RegDep]

No question mark necessary Brian. It is Wibault 220, Avion reconnaissance de nuit.

Over to you :ok:

[evansb]

Thank you. Here is the next one:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WHATZ_IT.gif

[RegDep]

The Rohrbach Cyclogyro: 1933.

Probably the same as we has in March, 2011, although it was said to be 1934.

Edit: No, the one looks different.

[Lightning Mate]

Or is it the Platt Cyclogyro, or are they the same thing?

[RegDep]

I think Mate is correct. I find the same picture with two names, and Platt looks more plausible.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/PlattCyclogyro.jpg

[evansb]

LM has it.:ok: The Platt Cyclogyro. See aerofiles.com for details. LM has control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/img0051.gif

[Lightning Mate]

I think Mate is correct

Don't bet on that Reg!

It depends on Brians' source, and here there may be much confusion!

[RegDep]

There is none Mate!

[Lightning Mate]

....say something Reg.........

Apologies Brian - extraneous stuff, but there is a reason.....

[RegDep]

Something (courtesy HappyPass) :}.

See above Brian's latest post #1266.

[Lightning Mate]

Sorry, I didn't hear you. Say again..................

[Lightning Mate]

OK then...

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/sunday-3.jpg

[RegDep]

Yours is HAI-40 from Russia.

Me missus tells me to come along to a walk in the park. Cannot afford refusing…...

[Lightning Mate]

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/RDCelebration.jpg

HAI-40 from Russia

Great shot - run home and post another...........:ok::ok:

[HappyPass]

Wow... that is... something! :E
Way to go, Reg!!! :ok:

[RegDep]

Oh, Thank you, thank you, thank you :O

Had completely forgotten. Was just wandering why LM was dragging his feet, but could not figure out :uhoh:

Here is my next towards 8,000

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/1a-1-1.jpg

[HappyPass]

George Sablier, 1954

Edit: the website I found it in (http://www.unicopter.com/1764.html)

[RegDep]

That's right HappyPass.

A French Strap-On Helicopter by George Sablier.

Over to you :ok:

[HappyPass]

Scramble! Scramble!

eggs incoming... :E

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3711/scchallenge.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/scchallenge.jpg/)

[evansb]

The 1974 235-mph Miller JM-2 Texas Jem.

[HappyPass]

Let's add some clues, shall we?

Experimental, pusher, first version of a racer which is probably more famous than this one. Some differences, obviously.

Edit: the clues were superfluous after all! :ok:

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/1281/solutionl.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/688/solutionl.jpg/)

Well done, your turn! :D:D:D

[evansb]

Quite the dashing disco-era figure in the cockpit of the JM-2. Here is the next challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WHY_LOOK_HERE.jpg

[RegDep]

The 1974 235-mph Miller JM-2 Texas Jem

That really sent the Giggle into uncharted waters :suspect:

[RegDep]

Junkers Ju 322

[evansb]

I didn't need to Google the JM-2, as I've seen the aircraft close-up and in-person.

[evansb]

Sorry Reg, my challenge is not a Junkers.

[HappyPass]

Saw this one today...
De Monge Typ 7.5
Bugatti-powered
...from a site where the Leviathan engine can also be found... :E

[RegDep]

I saw that, too. Just below the Breguet Br 20. But I forgot. I blame my advanced age and fragile health :uhoh:.

[evansb]

HP is correct.:ok: Louis De Monge's Type 7.5 twin-boom, shrouded motor job. HP has control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/demonge7-52.jpg

[HappyPass]

Thank you.

New one...
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3711/scchallenge.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/scchallenge.jpg/)

[RegDep]

With no reference to your beautiful challenge, HP, I bid good night.

prepared and had Iberian pork chops, sauce fines herbes et moreilles, green beans and baby carrots, with Fleurie 2008, and am as good as gone.

Good night, see you guys tomorrow :ok:

[HappyPass]

Ye sure know how ta have a good time, doncha? :ok:
See ya tomorrow!

I'm turning in too.
Knowing that you folks are not the average John or Jane's Doe, I'm sure you will know where to search.
I'll be back around 8.00 GMT, but if someone guesses it before I'm back and you're itching to go please feel free to go ahead without me.
Until then.

[SincoTC]

Good morning HP :),

Another nightime raid I'm afraid, first time on today and no other lights on!

I believe that contraption is the VUITTON-HUBER helicopter of 1908 ?

Have to ask for another Open House if correct, as it's an early start again tomorrow and a busy day ahead, so I may not get back 'til lunch break!

Well done on your 4K Reg :D, but lookout for HP, he only started in February and is already well past 1000 :ooh:

[HappyPass]

Morning TC,
looks like you got my not-too-subtle Jane's 1913 clue...
The Vuitton-Huber of 1908 it is! :D:D:D
Open House

[skwinty]

Try this one.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af92/skwinty/Image1.jpg

[HappyPass]

As LM would have put it...
Wot you on mate - I want some!

Edit: Russian tail?

[skwinty]

Battleship camo, works a treat.:E

ETA: Not Russian but European.

[RegDep]

Good morning gentlemen!

Y'all on something?

[skwinty]

I will be on novocaine at 12. :mad:

[HappyPass]

Oh and btw, looks like Mate's tutorial did wonders, this one's really good! Keep it up! http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/thumbs.gif

[RegDep]

Battleship camo

Is yours operating from carriers? (or do we need to wait until 12:00 before we should start pulling the truth out from you?)

[skwinty]

Still practicing. I still have one more old style to come.:8

ETA: Not carrier based AFAIK, what you seeing is a fixed tail wheel and not a tail hook.

The camo is just to cause an illusion.:\

[Lightning Mate]

Morning all. :)

An obvious question - was it armed?

[Ridge Runner]

Hi Skwinty, While appreciateing the intention and reason, the distortion of the image doesn't lend itself to a "silhouette" challenge!

RR

[HappyPass]

Don't worry... he will be punished... :E
http://www.bestgaggift.com/images/attorney.gif

(I've had more than my fair share of that cr** above too so you're in good company :()

[Lightning Mate]

Well, I have converted it to a silhouette, but it doesnt help.

[skwinty]

The aircraft saw service as a trainer and as a fighter. It is French.

It was still used as a trainer after the war by a few countries.

The silhouette is accurate, only the fill is different.

[HappyPass]

Bloch MB 700?
On second thought yours doesn't look like a radial...

[skwinty]

No, but BMW make an oiler with the same number.:)

[Ridge Runner]

Its a Dewoitine, isn't it?

[Lightning Mate]

Maybe the Morane Saulnier MS406

[skwinty]

Dewoitine, but which one.:)

[Lightning Mate]

The D.520 maybe.

[skwinty]

That's it.

I will post the original later.:ok:

I must bid you farewell now as I prepare for my rendition of Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man... Is it saaafe..:}

[Lightning Mate]

That's it.

Do you mean the D-520?

[skwinty]

Dewoitine D 520 it is.

Sorry for the confusion.

[Lightning Mate]

Thanks sk.

RR, a silhouette for you...........

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/monday.jpg

[Lightning Mate]

Evening Graeme. ;)

[Noyade]

Morning mate ;)

RR, a silhouette for you

Why Martin mate? Is that a clue?

[Lightning Mate]

No mate. Check post #1304.:E

[Noyade]

No mate. Check post #1304.http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/evil.gif

Ahhhh....I see.



Aerofiles?

[Lightning Mate]

Might be worth a try.............

[Noyade]

Military or civilian mate?

[Lightning Mate]

I think it was military.

edit: yes it was.

[Noyade]

Adopted by the US Navy?

[Lightning Mate]

Well yes.

More accurately built for the USN for one purpose.

Two choices:

1. Wanna photo?

2. What that pupose was?

[RegDep]

I vote for purpose, but before that: A Boeing?

[Lightning Mate]

Not a Boeing mate.

[RegDep]

The tail is like a Smurf's hat. Should be very distinctive :hmm:.

Purpose (unless Graeme opposes)?

[Noyade]

Fine mate.

[Lightning Mate]

OK, this should do it:


USN testing of pontoons

[RegDep]

Ach, that's what I suspected all the way. One would find it as a land plane…..

Washington Navy Yard Seaplane aka Richardson 82-A

[Lightning Mate]

One would find it as a land plane…..

No you wouldn't.

[RegDep]

Agreed. See above.

[Lightning Mate]

Washington Navy Yard Seaplane aka Richardson 82-A

All yours Reg. :ok:

...it's about time I did difficult....

[RegDep]

Thanks Mate!

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/img044o.jpg :E :E :E :E

[Noyade]

You clever bugger! :)

No idea. :(

[Noyade]

Very distinctive tail. German?

[RegDep]

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/angelic.gif

[RegDep]

Very distinctive tail. German?

I have been led to believe so.

[Lightning Mate]

To me the ailerons are more distinctive than the tail.

[Noyade]

The tail looks very similar to this....?

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8328/img045y.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/img045y.jpg/)

[RegDep]

The tail looks very similar to this....?

I should say so, too.

[Noyade]

Then possibly it's the DFW C V....?

DFW C.V - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFW_C.V)

:):ok:

[Noyade]

You seem hesitant Reg?

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2513/img046x.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/img046x.jpg/)

[RegDep]

I am not hesitant, just checking my notes.

I believe we are there mate.

Over to you :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

I am not hesitant, just checking my notes.

I wouldn't bother Reg!

[Noyade]

Over to you http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/thumbs.gifWell mate, I feel an open house is in order here.......... :)

(And get thee to WC, answer it and declare open house! :=:))

[RegDep]

Always pleasure to do business with you, Sir :ok:

Graeme has declared Open House,

[Lightning Mate]

Has he now.....

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/mon-3.jpg

[Noyade]

Canadian?.........

[Lightning Mate]

Yes you sod........

Go away and open another bottle....:E

[Noyade]

Ahhh....

Fleet 50 Freighter?

[Lightning Mate]

Yep. :ok:

Throw something up mate!

Then I will get it and post an absolute stinker. ;)

[Noyade]

Thanks David.

Tis all I have. I think you've seen it in my moment of dementia the other night...

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/7665/img037o.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/822/img037o.jpg/)

[Lightning Mate]

Yes - and I wish I had captured and saved it.:\

Did it start life as a glider?

[HappyPass]

An early torpille pusher...
Not Tatin's, not Borel's, not D'Artois...

[Noyade]

I made it, but I don't like it, and I want to see your stinker...

...so, Aerofiles says this machine...

It was twice as fast as biplanes of the era.

[HappyPass]

Lunch, see ya!
nice clue there...

[Lightning Mate]

A-1 Bullet

[Noyade]

A-1 Bullet

From Gallaudet.

Yep. :ok:

Bring on the stinker.

[Lightning Mate]

Sod it - I left it at home!!!!!:\

Standby.....

This will have to do.

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/4you.jpg

[Ridge Runner]

'ello all!

Was it a glider intended to have a pilot or a glide-bomb?

[skwinty]

Here is the original Dewoitine D520 from earlier.

Aha I see a stinker from Lightning Mate. Let me look see.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af92/skwinty/work59035821flat550x550075fdewoitine-d-520.jpg

[RegDep]

Is there an engine pod somewhere or is this a sailplane?

[Lightning Mate]

Just a manned glider - not a bomb.

[skwinty]

Fairchild G-78?

Correction E-78

[Noyade]

Bracing wires? That would seriously date this...early 20's?

(Nice model skwinty! :))

[Lightning Mate]

Fairchild G-78?
Correction E-78

Not a Fairchild.

Off for 30 minutes.

[skwinty]

Kokusai Ku-7 Manazuru ("White-naped Crane"; Allied code-name Buzzard)

[Lightning Mate]

Kokusai Ku-7 Manazuru

No mate, that was a large troop glider. This is a small 2 seat trainer, but you're very close..........

[skwinty]

Fukuda Ku-5 Army Two-seat Training Glider?

Pictures are hard to find.:*

[Lightning Mate]

Not that either mate.

There are no known photos of this machine, but it is available as a 3-view and one profile colour drawing. Both are on the web.

[RegDep]

I think yours is Maeda Ku-1…..

I know, that was a troop transport, but the 3-view ……

Ach ja, about 100 of Maeda-built Ku-1-I Type 2 were used for training…..

[HappyPass]

Was looking at the same, Reg, but
1) it would have been a repeat
2) it carries 6 to 8
3) photo is even on aviastar

Correction: that seems to be the one, good shooting, Reg :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

Nicely done Reg. :D

Over to you. :ok:

Would anyone want the full 3-view?

[RegDep]

Was this the one in Aviastar?

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-08-22um150346.png

[HappyPass]

Nope, but it is similar to the lower one.

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/6671/maedaku1.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/maedaku1.jpg/)

[Lightning Mate]

That's because it is the lower one.

[HappyPass]

That's because it is the lower one.
Plane yes, photo no (slightly different angle)

[skwinty]

That one was a stinker.:E

[Lightning Mate]

....but not the stinker I intended.......

[HappyPass]

He he... true, skwinty!
I was even looking at Russian ones...wire bracing and all...

[RegDep]

My humble contribution to stinkies and funny-looking pushers, both in demand today, I have seen….

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/gy2-1.jpg

[Ridge Runner]

German, REg?

[HappyPass]

WTF, I've seen this one!
What was it...

[Lightning Mate]

It's the Wibault Gyrotor :)

[RegDep]

Not German, RR

Maybe today, HP

[RegDep]

It's the Wibault Gyrotor

Yes, it is :ok:

There is little information about exactly what Michel Wibault did during the 1945-55 period working for several U.S. aviation companies, but at least one of his peculiar aircraft designs from 1948 is known. A strange rear-pusher aircraft!

You back home for the REAL stinker Mate?

[HappyPass]

Maybe today, HP No, 'twas in me bookmarks... :ugh:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/S.htm
Well done, Mate! :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

You back home for the REAL stinker Mate?

No - I'm in the office.

Gimme less than five minutes.

[RegDep]

HP, I found it today when Giggling Graeme's challenge using string 'ugly pusher aircraft' or the likes.

[Lightning Mate]

It is (or was) already in my sleeve!

Let's go modern.....

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/narwun.jpg

[RegDep]

The aircraft next to it is Czech…..

[Ridge Runner]

European, at a guess, David?
Or is the Czech a/c to the right a red herring?

[Lightning Mate]

It is European Martin, but the other aeroplane is a smelly red fish.

[RegDep]

but the other aeroplane is a smelly red fish

Because it is of the same type as the challenge, but in Check register?

[Lightning Mate]

I do not know if it's the same type as the challenge. All I can see is the fin.

Check out the cars......

[RegDep]

Check out the cars......

Eastern Europe…..

[Ridge Runner]

THe cars are either UK seventies or East European of the nineties?

[Lightning Mate]

One car is British late 70s early 80s.

[skwinty]

Zlin Z50? .......

[Lightning Mate]

Not a Zlin.

[skwinty]

Staudacher S-300D?

No hints ?

[Lightning Mate]

I've already said it's European.

Wanna hint?

Get a one-way ticket out of Czechoslovakia guys.

I've just been looking at the Staudacher S-300D - that's an excellent effort sk.

[skwinty]

CAP 232? That's French innit?:E

[Lightning Mate]

The CAP 232 is indeed French, but it ain't that one.

[Ridge Runner]

Get a one-way ticket out of Czechoslovakia guys.


To where, David? Is this one of your cryptic clues and nothing to do with Czechoslovakia?

"Get a one-way ticket" - a single? Means nothing.

[Lightning Mate]

It means leave with no intention of coming back.

Just trying to tell you that it's not Czechoslovakian, despite the one next to it.

[Lightning Mate]

Look guys, I have to go home and will check in again shortly.

In the meantime, try France. ;)

...'cause I'm not the sort of person who leaves things up for a long time....

[Lightning Mate]

Isn't anyone going to take a stab at it?

[skwinty]

Long shot here, but I have nothing else.:ugh:

Dyn'Aéro CR.100

[RegDep]

We are talking about an aerobatic aircraft, aren't we?

[Ridge Runner]

Isn't the Giles a yank, HP?

[Lightning Mate]

Dyn'Aéro CR.100

Sadly not sk.

Yes Reg, you are looking at a dedicated French aerobatic aeroplane.

I'm not sure what clue to give next.................

The aeroplane was photographed at South Cerney, UK, where I did my basic officer training btw, in 1987.

Just thought of a good clue......

[RegDep]

That would make it Pena Capena

[HappyPass]

A Pena Capena :confused: (whatever that is...)

quadruple sourpile with cheese on top and double whipped cream! :}

Edit: disregard

[Ridge Runner]

http://images2.jetphotos.net/img/2/6/0/6/70785_1139165606_tb.jpg (http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5671191&nseq=1) I guess so! RR ;)

[Lightning Mate]

??????????????????

No.

[RegDep]

Mate, exposing my complete ignorance: What are these metal wire things in the wing-tip?

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-08-22um190128-1.png

[Lightning Mate]

They are to assist in visually judging the vertical or 45 degree angle during aerobatic manoevres such as stall turns or any othe manoevre which requires precise vertical alignment in competition work.

When I won a world international I had to use the tip tanks, which were just as good.

[HappyPass]

I think they use to know at which absurde angle they are with respect to the horizon... :}

(of course refer to Mate's explanation, not mine!)

[Lightning Mate]

Vertical is not an absurd angle, it is merely one choice of 360 degrees....

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/vertical.jpg

...or rather, two, depending upon whether you are going up or down.

[RegDep]

216 Course at South Cerney, Mate?

[Lightning Mate]

YES MATE!!!!!

Wot you found?

[RegDep]

Nothing yet. Not even your course photograph….. Yet :ok:

[HappyPass]

Feugray TR.260

re the piccie of the Lightning... http://factoryjoe.s3.amazonaws.com/emoticons/emoticon-0119-puke.gif

Edit: what 216 course?

[Lightning Mate]

Fighter pilots are totally happy in absolutely any attitude - ask their girlfiends/wives. :E

[Lightning Mate]

Bingo - I was wondering just what to say next.

All yours HP. :D:D

[Lightning Mate]

re the piccie of the Lightning... http://factoryjoe.s3.amazonaws.com/emoticons/emoticon-0119-puke.gif

You do that in my cockpit and I'll throw you over the bar for six hours and all the drinks are on you!!!!!!!!!!

[RegDep]

Shoot, I thought it was Diana Britten's CAP 10b or 21 :oh:

[HappyPass]

Sleeve depleted fast in the last couple days.
Nothing to offer.
Starting to work on something, in the meantime OH and apologies... :*

[Lightning Mate]

Stop buggering about and post something............

edit: oh no..............

Somebody will have to move very fast - I'm at home....and you know what that means..........

....maybe a horrible smell...........

[skwinty]

Last of my stock, should be easy.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af92/skwinty/gs.jpg

[Lightning Mate]

Could that be a Cierva C.30P

[HappyPass]

Flettner 265 autogyro?
I got one now...

[skwinty]

Flettner 265,

HappyPass :ok:

[HappyPass]

There you go.

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/3711/scchallenge.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/scchallenge.jpg/)

[skwinty]

Cessna CG-2

[HappyPass]

Nope, wrong country skwinty.

[sycamore]

How many times were you re-coursed ,LM?

[Lightning Mate]

Don't be so silly!!

I have never failed a course in my life!!!!!!!!!!

[skwinty]

DFS SG-38 Schulgleiter (PE-37).

[HappyPass]

I have it as "Stamer Lippisch SG-38", while other sources call it "Stamer Lippisch SG-38 Zögling". Wiki says that the "DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter" (school glider) was developed from the "Stamer Lippisch Zögling" (no model number).
Given this ambiguity and the fact that the two (?) models look identical and serve the same purpose too, I think I can safely award this to you, well done! :D:D:D
Skwinty has control. :ok:

[sycamore]

LM,think you`ve failed the memory test,or they left you at SC...?(post 1415)

[skwinty]

My problem is I never know when to shut up.:oh:

I have nothing prepared, so it's open house.:ok:

[Lightning Mate]

LM,think you`ve failed the memory test,or they left you at SC...

Oh - go to bed silly!!!!!:E

You need your ugly sleep............

[Lightning Mate]

I am so tempted by a stinker............


I have nothing prepared, so it's open house.

A bit of advice from a fighter pilot - always have at least one missile left up your sleeve.

When you have launched the last one, go home fast and re-arm.

Ask Reg!

[skwinty]

I'll get another shot.:rolleyes:

I am watching Flying Wild Alaska. Awesome territory to fly.

Give us another stinker.;)

[Lightning Mate]

Awesome territory to fly.

Really??

So is Nevada on Red Flag!

0.95 Mach at 100 feet!!!!!!!

[HappyPass]

Or else I got one (to get even with my last OH) that will shame even LM's stupendous photoshop masterpieces...:E

[skwinty]

=Lightning Mate So is Nevada on Red Flag!

Yeah, but can you get stink flipper in Nevada.:}

[skwinty]

Go Happy Pass.

[HappyPass]

There it is, lo and behold!

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9410/scmasterfulchallenge.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/scmasterfulchallenge.jpg/)

[RegDep]

You think, HP, that it is smart to have a transparent canopy to make us believe that you have not put your silhouette into a new backdrop? Fat chance!

So is Nevada on Red Flag! ... 0.95 Mach at 100 feet!!!!!!!

That sure stirs the dust.

[HappyPass]

No, Reg, I didn't want to make you believe anything, besides you're too smart for that... :E

I made the canopy transparent to provide additional detail (that's one reason) and to show off my prowess with PS and get LM's seal of approval (and that's the other one). ;)
Of course also the ground shadow and the hand-painted subtle reflections on the canopy are phoney...

Edit: wanna info? just ask away! :)

[RegDep]

So, this is a modern pusher, twin tandem seat. Let me see…...

[HappyPass]

twin tandem seatSee? making the canopy transparent was not a waste of time after all... :ok:

[RegDep]

Whoops, I just saw the canard….

Funny: T-tail, two extra tail fins and a canard…..

Is this a Swiss project again?

Or a Piaggio proof of concept thingy?

Or something Bill Lear toyed with?

Say something else than something :8

[HappyPass]

Not Swiss.
Not Piaggio.
Not Bill Leary.

[RegDep]

Not Swiss.
Not Piaggio.
Not Bill Leary.

And did not fly?

[HappyPass]

There's a video on Youtube of it taxiing and plenty of photos of it flying on the website of its owner. ;)

[RegDep]

Give me please the best search language. Cannot even find in Spanish strings….

[HappyPass]

Bon, monsieur RegDep, je pense que vous pouvez essayer avec la langue française (or just search JetPhotos.Net for privately owned aircraft in France...) ;)

[RegDep]

Naw. Must be doing something terribly wrong. Oughta sleep on it. Where is Graeme when you REALLY need him?

Good night. See you tomorrow. :zzz: ZZZ zzzz Hrrhhhh :zzz: ZZZzzz Hrhhh

[HappyPass]

Summary and new info.

modern pusher
twin tandem seat
canard, T-tail + normal tail
French
it flew (there are pictures and youtube videos of it flying, not only taxiing)
color is a beautiful metal gray/grey

Edit: ...tomorrow... :zzz:

[SincoTC]

Evening HP,

Getting a bit late but you're light's still on :)

This is getting habit forming innit? I get home and find an unsolved challenge and some nice little clues to unwind with before bed!!

'Tiz the Chudzik CC-02 F-PSCK

It looks like quite a nice little device (better than it sounds); but it really needs a little jet engine and no danger of a ground-strike from the prop!

Sorry but it'll have to be another Open House, as I'm off to work in about five hours and if it's anything like today, I won't find much time to play :( ! It looks like the numbers are picking up a bit though and skwinty is playing his part well.

[RegDep]

Good morning! :O

I should have gone to bed earlier :(

[Lightning Mate]

Morning Reg.


I should have gone to bed earlier

I did!!!

[RegDep]

I did!!!

Smart move indeed Mate!

[HappyPass]

Morning all!
Y'know that thread with the JM-2 on page one?
...this one was on page two!
Ducted Fans - Page 2 (http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/aircraft-design-aerodynamics-new-technology/539-ducted-fans-2.html)

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6953/33503108.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/31/33503108.jpg/)

Well done as usual TC! :D:D:D
OH

[Lightning Mate]

Morning HP.

Nice challenge and nice art work. :ok:

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/OH-1.jpg

[HappyPass]

Thanks LM...
I've seen this before, and if I'm not mistaken, it was a silhouette...
Are you sure this has not been posted before? :confused:

[Lightning Mate]

I can't see it on the list mate.

edit: I have just re-checked and it's not there.

[HappyPass]

Then why in the world I do remember that landing gear style...
Maybe you posted it and then withdrew it for some reason...
nevermind.

[Lightning Mate]

It's your age mate!

Happens to us all........

[HappyPass]

So,
a short-spanned shoulder-wing, wire-braced cruciform-tail, canopied-cockpit (?) taildragger with a big paddled prop.

A racer?
Then why the dune buggy style landing gear?
...jettisonable? :E

[Lightning Mate]

It was indeed a racing aeroplane, but the gear was not jettisonable.

[HappyPass]

Don't tell me it's retractable, because if it is, they just mounted the actuators the wrong way round!!!

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/1492/geary.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/geary.jpg/)

I'll play chicken and go buy some chicken, see ya in a little while...

[Lightning Mate]

I will tell you it's retractable........

[HappyPass]

Don't tell me it's an ugly Curtiss Hawk style retractable gear...
Then it must be from the US.

chicken, chicken, chicken...

[Lightning Mate]

It was indeed American.

[Lightning Mate]

Reg,

Looks like you are all alone out there.:confused:

Would you like a photo of the gear system?

[RegDep]

Well, actually yes. I have been working all morning (for other reasons) with a landing gear that rotates 90 degreed when it is retracted (I think I fond it finally, and it was not Curtiss Hawk).

I also looked briefly at Howard Hawks H.1, and yours must be about half a dozen years older…..

[Lightning Mate]

Give me a few minutes then and I'll post it.

[HappyPass]

Not alone anymore!
Why older? My bet is that it's more recent than the H-1, that beast was way ahead of its time...

[Lightning Mate]

Here you both go.....

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/gearclue.jpg

[HappyPass]

Is that snow on the gear!?!?

Edit: ...silly me, Reg is right :}

[RegDep]

Hey b-o, that's the cover, painted white / reflecting light methinks.

[Lightning Mate]

That is indeed the gear door. It's painted the same colour as the aeroplane, it just looks different because of the light.

With reference to age, this aeroplane was only three years later than the Hughes H-1. ;)

[RegDep]

Chambers R-1 Chambermaid, originally dubbed Phantom.

[Lightning Mate]

:D:D:D

All yours Reg. :ok:

[HappyPass]

Good job Reg!
Now I recall where I've seen it, it was in Ferriere's...

I'rr bettel stalt malinading the beef blisket... http://freeemoticonsandsmileys.com/animated%20emoticons/Smile%20Animated%20Emoticons/chinese%20smile.gif

[Lightning Mate]

Ah so Glasshopper.......

[RegDep]

Sorry my slow, we have a regular thunderstorm here…..

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-08-23um125358-1.jpg

[Noyade]

Curtiss P-40...?

[Lightning Mate]

Reg - you cannot be serious!!!!

Evening Lurker. :)

[RegDep]

Did you fall off your bed Graeme?

[HappyPass]

Glasshopper
Never tried those...
but it would be wise to pay a visit to Yong Kang Beef Noodles in Taipei, should you go there. I'ts worth it. :)

[RegDep]

Reg - you cannot be serious!!!!

Wossat? Not on Mel's list :\.

And of course Graeme's got it. Curtiss P-40E Warhawk.

He must have been practicing it…..