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Old 1st Apr 2004, 16:43
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Sorry BEagle,
Completely off track there.

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Nope - not the Rotorcraft Grashopper, sorry!
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The underpowered, ground-borne Hunting Percival P.74 then?
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Aerohack - absolutely correct! Despite running flat-out with maximum upness selected, it sat there like a fat pig and refused to budge!

You have the helm!
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Shouldn't that be the collective? Or perhaps the cyclic.... I'm going to have to look the P-74 up...!

Darn it chaps... it's like Wimbledon. Right, I'm off for my beer and I promise I won't post under the influence! Do yer worst Aerohack!
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Well, collect your thoughts and cycle on back, Treadders. Here goes:

Now almost extinct, I was born into a very large and still expanding family, but was always the odd one out.
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French......?
jet.............?
twin.........?
1960`s....?
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Syc:
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No
No
50s/early 60s
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Old 1st Apr 2004, 20:31
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Are you perchance British?
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Westlands.....................?
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Ahoy there Aerohack be ye a Guppy?
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Well, although Delphinapterus leucas isn't close to extinction as far as I know, you could perhaps be the A300-600ST 'Beluga' transport aircraft?

Very busy rushing back and forth between Finkenwerder and Toulouse!
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Not if it's 50's to 60's BEages. I was thinking of Westlands going from fixed wing to helo, but I'm probably off the mark, as always.

Where's he gone?
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Old 2nd Apr 2004, 06:12
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Absolute shot in the dark - you are not that Cessna helicopter thingy perchance? Can't remember its name, but, if I recall aright, it appeared around the 1960 mark... Certainly an odd one out!

Edited - done some googling... the Cessna CH-1 (YH-41). Doesn't seem to mention the name - Skyhook keeps whizzing round me brain - getting confused with Skyhawk?

I won't post the link to the site as it is a commercial one.

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Hmm - missed that bit!

The "...was born into a very large and still expanding family.." bit had me thinking of Airbus, as they always refer to aircraft 'families' and are expanding all the time. Neither of the antecedents, VFW-614 or Dassault Mercure fit the bill as they weren't around in the '50s. So shall have to think again:

Were you European?
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Old 2nd Apr 2004, 07:17
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Very accurate shot in the dark, Treadders. Cessna CH-1 Skyhook (aka YH-41 Seneca in military guise) it was. The only helicopter Cessna ever built (and which some folk at Wichita deny they ever did). Just one known survivor, at the Museum of Army Flying at Fort Rucker, AL. Cessna bought back all the commercial Skyhook models and bulldozed them into a big hole. Your call.
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Old 2nd Apr 2004, 08:59
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Ah, I thought there was a Native American name in there somewhere...

Right: fairly easy one...

A jewel from the east, I now belong in a more Aristocratic family
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Diamond 1A - Beechjet 400/400A - Hawker 400XP - whatever they want to call it next?
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Old 2nd Apr 2004, 10:25
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No fooling you is there? I really must try to be more subtle...!

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Well, here's an easy one.

Calm Air? Au contraire, but Norman smoothed my progress.
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