DeKellis-Olsen Air Truck

[Rosevidney1]

The DeKellis-Olsen Air Truck of 1957 was a TRIPLANE crop duster that apparently made but a single flight (and that was allegedly just a single circuit of the field). After that no further work was carried out on it and the aircraft was abandoned to the elements.
Can anyone add further detail to the above, pretty please?

[diginagain]

You've probably already found this:

De Kellis-Olsen Air Truck | Wings Over New Zealand (http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/18193?page=1)

[Rosevidney1]

Yes I had diginagain but thanks for the thought. I'm astonished that such an unusual post war design escaped photography and comment for so long. I wish the post-flight comments about its flying characteristics (or lack of them) had been recorded at the time!

[diginagain]

It can't be described as 'easy on the eye'.

[joy ride]

Great Scott what a monstrosity!

[India Four Two]

I imagine after the one-and-only circuit, the test pilot asked the designer if he knew about the theory of inter-plane gap!

[Allan Lupton]

. . and probably quoted the Blackburn Botha test pilot that "entering this aeroplane is difficult. It should be made impossible."