Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge

[Noyade]

Did you fall off your bed Graeme?

Finished tea, washed up like a good husband and then looked at SC.

[Lightning Mate]

I know it's not on the list Reg, but so easy.

It's even a Hasegawa model you have used.

[Noyade]

but so easy.Yet for a fighter pilot you hesitated? Get killed doing that mate. :)

[Lightning Mate]

Listen smartass - I was out of the office when it came up.

[Noyade]

Scrub one Lightning.
Boomerang does a victory roll.


Zoooooooooom.............

[RegDep]

You think "I was watching elsewhere" would help me when caught pants in me ankles?

[Lightning Mate]

I think Graeme has gone out to buy a new felt-tip.

[Noyade]

felt-tip. You bet! Look familiar?!...

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/149/img048u.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/img048u.jpg/)

[RegDep]

That is the "landing gear jettisonable" á la HappyPass.

[Noyade]

Curtiss P-40E Warhawk.

(Reg - AQ - Unusual panelling at the rear of cockpit?!)

[RegDep]

I was wondering that too. That's why I was looking for torpedo bombers….

RP-40 : Some American P-40s were converted into reconnaissance aircraft.
TP-40 : Some P-40s were converted into two-seat trainers.

???????

[Noyade]

That is the "landing gear jettisonable" á la HappyPass.

No, just another American racer similar to a shot-down LM challenge earlier.

[Lightning Mate]

Look familiar?!...

A little.

Similar to the Howard DGA-4.

Lots missing though....

[Noyade]

Why does the word "bet" appear as it does in post #1508...?

[Noyade]

Howard DGA-4

Not a Howard mate.

More exposure...

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6171/noideav.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/43/noideav.jpg/)

[HappyPass]

Chester Goon?
Nope...
...or Folkerts SK-4... they all look similar...

[Lightning Mate]

...bet...bet...chance...chance...

Must go - sod it!!

[Noyade]

Chester Goon?

But bloody hell it does look similar!

I don't see Chester or Goon with my source for this machine though.

[HappyPass]

See edit above...

[Noyade]

Folkerts SK-4

I'll accept that mate! :ok:
Source says SK-3 Jupiter, but they look so similar.

Your control HP.

[trucky04]

Where does 'Bets' apply??

[HappyPass]

Thanks.
The gear doors were identical, there were some details that didn't fit though.
That explains it!

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3711/scchallenge.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/scchallenge.jpg/)

[RegDep]

Got there using the engine of Goon as the string, but too late…..

Tha' the SAAB whatever its designation was…...

[Noyade]

SAAB J-21R...?

[Noyade]

Where does 'Bets' apply??

For me the word "bet" appears blue and links to a gambling site?
Dunno why and I didn't plan it.

[HappyPass]

That's one for Graeme, I'm afraid Reg... :\

who said...
when caught pants in me ankles? :p

Noyade has control

[RegDep]

SAAB P-21, another completely obvious, everybody knows it, and not been posted before!

Just being slow (me, that is).

Had to look elsewhere (for designation, this time).

[Noyade]

Thanks HP.

Last one for me...

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/598/img040fz.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/200/img040fz.jpg/)

[HappyPass]

B.I. Tsch I?

[Noyade]

You meant...?

BICh-1Back to you HP! :ok::)

[HappyPass]

Parabolic... eezy... not more than 3-4 parabolic thingys have been built in the whole history of mankind... unless I'm very much mistaken...

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3711/scchallenge.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/scchallenge.jpg/)

Edit: of course I do, the site I found it in apparently spells Cheranovskiy like T(s)chaikovsky...

[Arado]

TsKB Progress "Rysachok"?

[HappyPass]

Whaaaaat? :eek:
No.

Seriously, mine is a lot older...

[Noyade]

Seriously, mine is a lot older... Something like a Swearingen SA26 Merlin?...from the 70's?

[HappyPass]

Something like...
The Swearingen Merlin it is!
Back to you...

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5107/tabletennis.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/217/tabletennis.jpg/)

[Noyade]

Thanks mate, but the windows on mine are square? (actually, I think my eyes are failing me).

Anyway, sorry, but I have to make it Open House.

Cheers! :ok:

[HappyPass]

So many different versions...
There's a lot of pictures showing slightly rounded windows.
Sleep well! :)

[Lightning Mate]

Artnoon.

Out of class and I've missed some fun!

[Lightning Mate]

Are you bored?

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

[HappyPass]

No, I'm cooking ;)

[RegDep]

That landing gear looks familiar :E.

German?

[Lightning Mate]

Most landing gear looks familiar!

However, it's not German.

[RegDep]

Most landing gear looks familiar!

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-08-23um153702.jpg

Yes, but this detail….

[i.dingbat]

Bristol 138?

[skwinty]

I am at work, so can only peep every now and then.:mad:

[Lightning Mate]

G'day mate.

Bristol 138?

No question mark required! :ok:

The thread is all yours.

[i.dingbat]

Thanks Mate! I had the Airfix model many years ago and picked it from the u/c...

Now, where do I find the latest list so I don't embarrass myself?

[Lightning Mate]

Go to AH & N main page.

What cockpit etc. list.

Then What Silhouette.

Or you can tell me what you're going to post and I'll check it for you. :E

[i.dingbat]

Stand by - I'll give myself 15 minutes and if I can't find anything new it will be open house.

[Lightning Mate]

Standing by.......................

BTW, shouldn't you be :zzz::zzz: ?

[RegDep]

Here is a direct link to Mel's site.

http://artificer356.co.uk/WhatSilhouette31July2011.htm

[i.dingbat]

OK, this probably won't last long:

http://www.iainhosking.com/images/flying/aircraft/challenge/scan0002.jpg

P.S. Yes, it is a little late...

[Lightning Mate]

Don't be too sure of that.

I note it's a scan, so can you confirm it's on the web please.

[i.dingbat]

Confirmed. A quick search on the name threw up 9000 results.

Feel free to ask questions :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

OK thanks.

Transport or recce?

[i.dingbat]

Closer to the former. It had some unusual features, including a Martin-Baker ejector seat :eek:

[Lightning Mate]

Whaaaatt??

[i.dingbat]

Seriously. I have the book in front of me. It was derived from a light transport that is already on Mel's list, but it's a research a/c..

[Lightning Mate]

Dornier Do-29?

[i.dingbat]

Correct.

Dornier Do 29 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_29)

From my trusty Observer's Book of Aircraft, 1960 edition. As has been observed earlier in this thread, a very good year.

You have control.

[Lightning Mate]

Thanks mate.

I don't remember seeing you here before, so if it's your first post may I wish you a warm welcome and ask that you stay with us. :)

Standby please.......

About time we had another of these.....

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

...that's desert in the background....

[Lightning Mate]

Press release on it a week ago!!!

[Arado]

Looks like Eurocopter EC665 Tiger to me.French one deployed to Afganistan?Arado

[HappyPass]

Turkey's TAI T-129 "P6"

OH please as I'm about to bring the mess in my kitchen to a whole nu level... :\

[Lightning Mate]

It does a bit, but it isn't.

Sorry - crossed posts.

HP has it.

Over to you HP. :ok:

Missed it - HP has declared Open House.

Go..........

[Lightning Mate]

Well, I'm certainly going to go - home.

[skwinty]

Try this one in the meantime.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af92/skwinty/g-1.jpg

[Ridge Runner]

A Caproni? Or at least, Italian?

Edit: an S-M?

Further edit S-M 75?

[skwinty]

Italian.

Emissary of Mt Etna.:E

[RegDep]

Emissary of Mt Etna.

That would make it Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero….. Sparrowhawk

[skwinty]

TORPEDO BOMBER (ITALIAN SM-79)

You're up, RegDep.:ok:

[skwinty]

Fiat G-12

Looks very similar minus the belly.

[Lightning Mate]

You're up, RegDep

Not for years mate..................:E:E

[RegDep]

Well, thanks (Mate, don't get mixed up: I am up from my afternoon nap :8)

Here's the next.

Manned and flew

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

[skwinty]

Pilot’s equipment should be safely stowed in their underwear in such a way that it will not distract them during critical phases of the flight. :*

[skwinty]

Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet?

[RegDep]

Nope … … ...

[skwinty]

1943 Boeing N2S-3 Stearman?

[RegDep]

Nope. . . . .

So far, you have missed (at least) one detail.

[skwinty]

So it is a Boeing Stearman but not the right model?

[RegDep]

No, its not. The detail is in the picture, and it would say you no for both of your stabs so far.

We may need Graeme to wake up and tell you why I say so.

[skwinty]

Pitcairn PA8?

[Lightning Mate]

Pilot’s equipment should be safely stowed in their underwear in such a way that it will not distract them during critical phases of the flight.

You have obviously never sat in a Martin Baker seat and pulled the negative g strap tight.....

[skwinty]

I haven't worn a tight g string either.:E

[RegDep]

Not Pitcairn. Pay attention to THE detail.

pulled the negative g strap tight.....

Nothing is up then?

[Lightning Mate]

Is that thing the Maiden Wichita.

Or a Travel Air.......

[RegDep]

Maiden Wichita

That was the best shot so far. The detail is now correct. So is the town. Three years off…..

[Lightning Mate]

“Wichita Fokker” 4000 biplane ?

[RegDep]

A.K.A. . . . . .

[Lightning Mate]

AKA Travelair 4000

[RegDep]

Travel Air 4000 biplane

There we go :ok:

Over to you. :D

[Lightning Mate]

Danke sehr Reg.

Now some trouble.....

[Lightning Mate]

Open a bottle......

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

[skwinty]

1909 SPA-Faccioli biplane

Bzzt wrong.

[RegDep]

Open a bottle......

You did, or should we?

Two minutes skwinty. Sometimes a wonder, sometimes a disaster…...

[Lightning Mate]

skwinty,

You are a total Yarpy :mad:ole.

How did you find that so rapidly ?

The thread goes back to you. :D:D

[RegDep]

How did you find that so rapidly ?

Some of us have Breguet open when you post Mate :E

[Lightning Mate]

Don't be so silly Reg!

You wait.............

[RegDep]

Dinner time. See ya.

[HappyPass]

Well, just popped in to say that my guests are on their way here and I will be busy the whole evening.
Have a good time and see you tomorrow.

LM you have one in your pm inbox :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

Standby mate........

[skwinty]

I was looking at this website earlier.

02-51_100-copy_paste_Breguet-Pre-1914-Aircraft-Challenge (http://chezpeps.free.fr/0/pre-1914/02-51_100-copy_paste_Breguet-Pre-1914-Aircraft-Challenge.html)

[Lightning Mate]

Got it HP. :ok:

[skwinty]

And this is a real Japie!

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af92/skwinty/0-241.jpg

[Lightning Mate]

A Zerbe job?

[skwinty]

9, was he in the movie "Those magnificent men in their flying machines"

[Lightning Mate]

Man-powered?

[skwinty]

Looks like an engine behind the pilot. Bit ambitious for man power.:eek:

Built and kept in its shed - hidden from prying eyes. When the first flight test was to take place, it turned out that the apparatus was higher than the door and could not be pulled out of the shed.

Heavens ladder.:rolleyes:

Here is a modern version.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af92/skwinty/iex2010PeterHaasHimmelsleiter-065byMichielNiessen.jpg

[Lightning Mate]

Well, found that one easily enough.....

[skwinty]

Are you paying attention to Yarpies posts. Links'n all.:suspect:;)

[Lightning Mate]

I had already done that.

[skwinty]

Do you ever interrogate the filename?

[Lightning Mate]

Merx Fünfdecker “Himmelsleiter”.

I had the site bookmarked and had already posted from it. :\

[skwinty]

Lightning Mate, you're up!:ok:

[skwinty]

Me too, good night.:zzz:

[RegDep]

A Pulham Pig Mate?

[Lightning Mate]

The PP?

Graeme posted that one.

[RegDep]

So, the answer is no? US or British?

[Lightning Mate]

Challenge withdrawn - unsubstantiated source.

You throw one up Reg.

Nacht.

[RegDep]

Thanks Mate!

I throw this one up (:yuk:)

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-08-23um223813-1.jpg

Or, better: regurgitate this one :}.

Night Mate!

[RegDep]

Good morning gentlemen!

I see some night-shift members been sniffing here around but left this old bone untouched….. :uhoh:.

[HappyPass]

Morning Reg! All alone by yourself?

...a roadable? :confused:

if it is, it's not on roadabletimes.

[RegDep]

All alone?

Not any more :ok:

Not roadable, but has a connection with cars :oh:

[skwinty]

Czech Avia, Canadian Gregor, Hawker or Bristol?

[RegDep]

None of the above.

[HappyPass]

The connection is that it can be towed, is that correct?
Folding wings?

[RegDep]

No the connection is its car engine.

[Ridge Runner]

A Ford, perhaps? :)

[RegDep]

Not a Ford engine. No way.

Give me the correct year and I'll give a solid clue. Deal?

[HappyPass]

Deal.
19...2... ...6?

[trucky04]

The undercarriage looks like those used for bombers. (bristol TB.8) Year would be around 1914??

[RegDep]

HP, you blunderbus sniper :E

Trucky, far smaller than a bomber. Your timing is closer than HP's, though. Correct decade.

[trucky04]

Yes but this type of undercarriage was installed to some aircraft to accommodate bombs. Bristol TB.8 / GB.75 (http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft25626.htm)

[Arado]

how about 1910?
Hispano-suiza engine, maybe?

[RegDep]

The timing is drifting the wrong way. No H-S.

Maybe need to add that the builder was not happy with his original car engine and went over to an Anzani later.

Not the least interesting feature of this machine is its engine—xxxxx. It is placed vertically in the machine, with the cylinder heads pointing forward so as to ensure even cooling. (The engine is aircooled.) At the upper end of the vertical crankshaft is a bevel gear which serves the double purpose of transmitting the power to the horizontal propeller-shaft and of giving a 2 to 1 gear reduction. The weight of the engine is somewhat great for its power, compared with modern aero engines, but it is stated by the makers that reliability has been their first consideration, and that they consider this of greater importance than low weight. The engine weighs 220 lbs., or slightly over 4 lbs ./h.p., but it is claimed to be as reliable as a car engine, and to require very little attention.


Edit: Hah! You are on a good site already, Trucky :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

Good afternoon. :)

By Henri Potez?

Type 8 ?

[RegDep]

There, Mate, I wonder what went wrong with the others.

Henri Potez Type VIII it is, with Potez 50 hp engine. The Paris Aero Show 1919.

Over to you Mate :D

[Lightning Mate]

Sorry for the delay - a thing called WORK!

A nice easy one for the early afternoon.....

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

[trucky04]

Is it simply a Thruster?

[trucky04]

The Thruster TST

[Lightning Mate]

It is indeed the Thruster Trucky.

You have the thread. :ok:

PS: are you an ex-transport pilot?

[trucky04]

That was FAR too easy even for a tyro like myself. OPEN HOUSE

[Lightning Mate]

That's because fighter pilots are ALL heart!!

[skwinty]

What's that from?

G-suit too tight again?:E

[trucky04]

"Ex transport Pilot". I work in the field of 'education towards the transport of Aluminium tubing'

[buttrick]

More info on the Jag in the old challenge thread!

:ENot Muscat, but Thumrait. Whistling across the front of QB HAS to be precise, going North to South. Most of the Brit pilots had left by the time I got there in 97, and rules had been writted by then too. Low flying is sanctioned off the airbase and away from runways, down to 50 feet on a regular basis. No longer there Boo-Hoo;one of the best climates in the Middle-East. :sad

The jet is a Jaguar International S(O), which is the real designation of the single seaters. Two seaters are Jaguar International B(O)s

Can't post in the opther thread, it,s closed

[Lightning Mate]

Gentlemen,

A reminder that it is OPEN HOUSE. :)

[skwinty]

Try this airborne phased array antenna.:E

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

[trucky04]

This is the 1913 Robiola Idromultiplano. ?

[skwinty]

Thats it Trucky04.

You're up:ok:

[trucky04]

Thanks. Have to be OPEN HOUSE

[skwinty]

Last one from me today.

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

[hesham]

Hi,

Henry Coanda aircraft.

[skwinty]

What was special about it?

[hesham]

Hi,

it had a jet engine,and it was from 1910.

[trucky04]

HMM. Something's not right with those wing struts. Is there a unique feature to this aircraft wing?

[skwinty]

Hi Hesham,
You're up:ok:

PS and it didn't fly.:O

[hesham]

Hi,

a light aircraft;


http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/zz37/heshamh/2.jpg

[skwinty]

trucky04HMM. Something's not right with those wing struts. Is there a unique feature to this aircraft wing?


Just as well it didn't fly.:)

Here is a picture of it in the museum.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af92/skwinty/Coanda-1910-First-Jet-Title.jpg

[RegDep]

I too a nap and dreamed we had the old thread still on. Now I have to determine if I am still asleep or awake :ooh:.

The old thread had Coanda on page 31, by Brian.

[skwinty]

sorry, didn't check.

what is my punishment?:ooh:

[RegDep]

No ADDITIONAL punishment.

Let's see how hesham comes clear with his one :cool:

[hesham]

It's European.

[RegDep]

Trainer hesham? Late 50s - early 60s?

[hesham]

Hi RD,

it was a project from the late 1940s,trainer and towing aircraft.

[hesham]

Last explanation,

north Europe,small company.

[RegDep]

Of course. Looked so familiar, but was only a project.

PIK-8, 1948

[RegDep]

Finland, look above.

Sorry, time stamp problem. I had the same thing with a Greek PPRuNer in the morning. Apparently there is a server somewhere whose clock goes wrong.
My responses show earlier than the posts I am responding to. I was responding to your #1670.

Found it from another thread, your post 30th July 2010, 15:25.

[Ridge Runner]

Germany? A Klemm??

[hesham]

Yes RD,

it is PIK-8,you have the control.

[hesham]

Not From Germany,

so far north of Europe.

[hesham]

Sorry for this double post,

it is my mistake.

[RegDep]

Thanks hesham!

Next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-08-24um172238copy.jpg

[Ridge Runner]

British? A supermarine something?

[RegDep]

Not British.

This was as much an one-off aircraft as they can get: One number one man designed it, flew it only once, sold it to another number one man who didn't fly it at all.

[RegDep]

Whoops, I have scared out everybody else than Brian….

A further clue for lurkers: The wing and tail design was reused in another aeroplane type later, and several of them flew.

[evansb]

You say "...not British" but the design is similar to the Dart Pup as well as an Airspeed design built for WS Shackelton in the 1930s. It is not unlike the Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior. Presently considering a German design.. Scratch that, looks like the Siebel Si-201's tail is different than the mystery ship.

[RegDep]

Brian, it is an European design, the designer has a British connection, but this is not from his British period.

[skwinty]

Something from a company called Franco-British Aviation who produced Leveque designs? The English French link was broken in 1917.

[RegDep]

No French connection skwinty.

[SincoTC]

Abend Reg,

I think it may be the Koolhoven F.K.30 "Toerist" ??

I'm still at work for a couple of hours yet and hoping it's not going to be an "all-nighter" like yesterday, so it'll have to be an Open House if correct.

Oh well, back to the grind! Have a good night guys :)

[skwinty]

And here I was thinking it was a flying boat.:=

Good one RegDep:ok:

[RegDep]

Koolhoven F.K.30 "Toerist"

It sure is TC! :ok:

Wing and tail design re-used in FK 41.

TC has requested Open House.

Open House is hereby granted.

[SincoTC]

Just got back in and no new challenge, so I'll reclaim my OH and leave one up for the early shift to play with. I see your light's still on Reg; you should be :zzz: ZZzzzzz by now mate :=!!

http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n540/SincoSafe/TC_wtf159.jpg

Turning in now; not too early a start in the morning, so will check back in just over five hours.

[SincoTC]

Guten Tag Reg,

I'm at work now and will monitor as often as possible; there was not a soul on the active list when I checked earlier and no overnight guesses!

Edit: Morning to skwinty too, nice to see you up late and back early, keep it up mate :ok:

[skwinty]

Good morning all.

I am at work and can only sneak a search in on the odd occasion.:suspect:

[RegDep]

Morning TC.

Last night at the hour you saw my light on I was tight asleep. Must have forgotten to log off.

I'll give your mousetrap the attention due.

PS: Good morning skwinty!

[SincoTC]

All rather quiet, so a coffee time clue is in order!

In view of it's appearance due to the angle of the silhouette, I feel I should point out that it is in fact a monoplane and has a 70cv engine.

[RegDep]

Monoplane with a canard bigger than the wing :ooh:

Aa. You mean "monoplan, avec un moteur de 70 cv"? Anzani?

[skytrain10]

Lunch break time....looks like the Landeroin & Robert tandem monoplane?

If so will have to be Open House,

[SincoTC]

I was about to answer RD's question with Le Rhone, but I see that Ken has done a lunchtime raid with the correct identification of the Landeroin et Robert tandem monoplane :D

skytrain10 has requested an Open House :ok:

Edit:

A Breguet again http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/censored.gif

Actually Reg, it came from (I believe) one of you're site's :p, although it has been on Breguet's site too :)

Landeroin et Robert monoplane (http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29324.htm)

[RegDep]

A Breguet again :mad:. Why don't I ever learn :ugh:

[skytrain10]

Thanks Trevor. And Reg, I didn't look in Breguet's, just found it after a few modifications to a search for tandem wing aircraft :).
Back to work now :(....hope to get a chance to look in later.

[RegDep]

Skytrain, my reference to Breguet was on TC's posting, not you finding it :). If I read Mate correctly, I should grab the OH, right?

Boo hoo :{, this time stamp business drives me just crazy.

[Lightning Mate]

Good afternoon everyone.

I'm very busy so just a peek.

Nothing going on. Why? :\

[skwinty]

Try this one.



ETA: Ignore, it's on the list.

[RegDep]

This maybe:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/000copy-1.jpg

[skwinty]

Polish PZL P-11?

[RegDep]

Not Polish skwinty.

[Ridge Runner]

Italian, per chance?

[RegDep]

Not Italian either RR.

[skwinty]

Aero A.102

[RegDep]

Not an Aero. Not very much information available, but it was somewhat "special".

Edit: The wing was.

[Ridge Runner]

Are they winglets or some kind, Reg?

[RegDep]

No winglets. They did something that was tested by many at the time.

[Ridge Runner]

was it a "safe flying" machine?

[RegDep]

Yes, one of those.

[Ridge Runner]

1937??????

[RegDep]

Off by five years.

[skytrain10]

Not unlike the Boyd C aircraft of 1932?

[RegDep]

Why were it unlike Skytrain?

I'll tell you why. Because it is the Boyd Flying Craft Model C 1932. Variable-camber "safety plane" with corrugated metal construction (a tin can).

Over to you :D:D:D

[skytrain10]

Why were it unlike Skytrain? When I say not unlike I mean it is like.....the Boyd C that is. Undercarriage looks different but have only found the Aerofiles photo.
If correct will have to be Open House again....looks like being a late night in the office:(

[RegDep]

Yes, you are correct: In a second look, I have left one strut (a horisontal one above the wheel) un-silhouetted, because I thought it was a shadow of the wing strut :O. Other than that, I cannot tell the difference between gears in the two pictures.

Skytrain has declared Open House.

[skwinty]

Try this one.ETA: Looks better smaller.

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

[diesel addict]

Caproni I am sure -- 316 ??

If correct openhouse

[skwinty]

Caproni 316:ok:

diesel addict has declared open house

[Lightning Mate]

Good evening everyone. :)

I have had about thirty minutes free time today, and that was occupied by lunch!

I am now home at last - don't want you buggers bored........

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

[SincoTC]

Evening LM,

Just got in for an early night!! Thought those struts looked like they were for variable dihedral and found the Waterman Flex-Wing in Aerofiles!

Edit:

Just heard from our IT guy; apparently, there was a break-in at the local exchange last night and a lot of copper wire was stolen, damaging a good many circuits!! Repairs are going on now and there may well be interruptions of service later this evening. Therefore I'll ask for an Open House now, while I've still got a connection and play it by ear and see what happens later!! Hopefully Graeme or Bri will drop in and snap it up!

[RegDep]

Waterman Flex-Wing

Just dropping by and establishing that everything seems to be under control over here :8

[SincoTC]

Spent a good part of the morning in Norway (GE)

So that's why you didn't find my tandem-wing contraption on a well known Russian site this morning, you naughty boy := :)

I hope that you're getting "Air-miles" from giggle-earth :ok:

[RegDep]

Yes and no TC: It never occurred to me that a tandem wing would be a monoplane. Probably could have spent a full week on that.

Ho hum.

You think Mate will get on line tonight?

And: how do you like the AQ A(u)ntie?

Edit: Night! See you in the morning. :zzz:

[SincoTC]

I had some nice clues lined up, but skytrain swooped first!

I expect David will look-in before he turns-in and give the night shift a chance for a turn, prolly too late for you though :zzz:

AQ was a bit too easy really, took all of a minute to confirm it :ooh:

Edit: I see you've turned-in Reg, sleep well mate :ok:

I've just had another call that delayed my reply. They're going to drop the connection in ten minutes for a couple of hours, so I'm logging out too while I can :\.

[Lightning Mate]

TC has it.:ok:

The Waterman was designed to reduces gust response bt varying the dihedral and incidence - ridiculous idea if you ask me!

TC has the thread, but he did declare OH.

[RegDep]

As I have fallen out of bed I may take the OH just as well

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/2608-1.jpg

[Lightning Mate]

Morgen Reg. :)

Busy today again.

Is this a cabin bipe?

[RegDep]

Good morning Mate :)

Yes, it is.

[HappyPass]

Morning all!
...German?

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/9378/blunderbuss.gif (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/blunderbuss.gif/)

Edit: my message appeared before skwinty's, but I posted it after him...
I'll see that I have your same problem.

[skwinty]

Morning all,
RegDep, American or European?

[HappyPass]

Yeah, not all that accurate it would seem... :\

Edit: since 1) I have no idea what yours is and 2) since this glitch in Pprune gives me an unfair advantage, I will refrain from competing until things are back to normal.

[RegDep]

Morning skwinty. Seen you long time on line this morning . . . :)

Of those two alternatives, American.

HP, nice blunderbus you have there.

[RegDep]

To add: The last of HIM we heard in this respect.

[Lightning Mate]

...and 2) since this glitch in PPRuNe gives me an unfair advantage,....

Wossat all about then?

Can I have it too?

PM for RD.

[RegDep]

Mate, there is an irregular irregularity (sic!) in PPRuNe that sometimes makes a response to get an earlier time stamp than the question (or one get a time advantage to another). No idea how it works but it might be something to do with mirroring servers whose clocks are not in sync.

Unfortunately, you apparently cannot run it "by order" :}.

Edit: Responded PM Mate, but now you cannot play if you read my response :E.

[Lightning Mate]

OK.

Gentlemen - I shall now leave the thread.

[RegDep]

Gentlemen, just to make it perfectly clear: Mate did not ask a favour, only a question which I could only answer by giving something away.

Please all other: Fire free.

EDIT: Sequel clue:

The last of HIM we heard in this respect

but HE continued HIS life as an elder statesman of aviation

[Ridge Runner]

Oh dear, "trouble at mill"........

We've been working this way for years so let's press on..... Sometimes there are glitches but its sad to see anyone upset about them. HP, I hope you can get back to us!

RR

[skwinty]

Long shot here.... DH 34?

[RegDep]

HappyPass, just read your edit above. It has been going on several days now and caused more problems in other threads (like JB "Last two letters start the next word." as one can imagine.

So no guarantee that it will go away any time soon. Same with many other small nuisances of the life.

Forward, brave soldiers, forward! keep the chase.

Edit: See (:mad:) this got the time stamp when I started writing, not when I saved it :(.

[RegDep]

Skwinty: Not DH 34.

Written after 26th Aug 2011 12:33 Berlin Time Zone.

Edit: See: Came out before the last although that was :32.

[HappyPass]

Hi RR!
I'm not upset about the occasional bug that may come up.
I've decided to confine myself to watching because if I didn't it would be difficult to 1) read the thread with all answers and questions mixed up and 2) determine to whom a kill should be awarded when two answers are posted in quick succession.

[RegDep]

Answered to skwinty, but it went back to the page before….

[RegDep]

And wrote #1741 after seeing RR's response at :39

[Lightning Mate]

That's two of us just watching then. :)

[skytrain10]

Make it 3 for a while at least. It's lunch time here but I'm not jumping in with the answer :)

[RegDep]

Challenge re-post as suggested by Mate in #1748.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/2608-1.jpg

[Ridge Runner]

Ah well, life's too short, I enjoy the thread - the banter and the challenge - and will carry on.. :cool:

[HappyPass]

I'm enjoying every bit of it too ;)
But now I think I'll have lunch :p

Edit: for me things seem to be back to normal... or maybe that's because this message didn't take me long to write and the difference between the time I started writing it and the time I posted is negligible.
If that's the case however, thene there should be no problems with challenges as answers are usually on the concise side rather than the verbose...

[Lightning Mate]

Reg,

May I suggest a challenge re-post.

A very interesting day so far - two people on thread who know the answer.

edit: that's novel - Regs' re-post is seven minutes before my suggestion. :ugh:

[Ridge Runner]

oo er......

[Flying Bull]

Hi there,
run across this interesting thread and used the search function and didn´t find this bird so far
http://www.uheeren.de/images/whoami.jpg
Who knows?
Greetings Flying Bull