What Cockpit? MK V
Akubra
That was quick India Four Two!
Does anyone know if the wheel on top of the Bleriot control column had a function or was it just a hand grip?
This should be easy:
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Does anyone know if the wheel on top of the Bleriot control column had a function or was it just a hand grip?
It was as you say a hand grip. Bleriot's 'cloche' control for roll and pitch had fitted to the top a small wheel which was similar to a 'steering wheel' but was only a convenient hand grip and had no operating function.
Mel
It was as you say a hand grip. Bleriot's 'cloche' control for roll and pitch had fitted to the top a small wheel which was similar to a 'steering wheel' but was only a convenient hand grip and had no operating function.
Mel
Over to you, Jabberwok
Looks like a Blanik.
A beautiful April day in Alberta on a long tow to 8000' for a Spring Checkout spin, with a late snowfall on the Highwood Range of the Rockies.
I like living in the tropics, but I must say I miss gliding.
A wider view of the cockpit and a ground shot:
OK. Akubra has been AWOL for over a day. How about pigboat or Tiger_mate or LowNSlow? You missed your turns a while back.
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Quick back to Blanik blarney.
Used to fly one from Inkpen Ridges, Hungerford. A mate was soaring off the ridge one day when a local idiot farmer took a potshot with a 12 bore. Farmer eventually got 2 years as the elevator cable was nearly severed. Then a NIMBY Army type retired and got the locals to close the ridgetop strip down.
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Used to fly one from Inkpen Ridges, Hungerford. A mate was soaring off the ridge one day when a local idiot farmer took a potshot with a 12 bore. Farmer eventually got 2 years as the elevator cable was nearly severed. Then a NIMBY Army type retired and got the locals to close the ridgetop strip down.
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Clue 2:
Quite possibly unique. (I certainly do not know of a second example)
3 years of testing and 93 flights
Could achieve Mach 1.5
I have never heard of it before, and found it by chance researching for a differant type.
Come on Mel
Quite possibly unique. (I certainly do not know of a second example)
3 years of testing and 93 flights
Could achieve Mach 1.5
I have never heard of it before, and found it by chance researching for a differant type.
Come on Mel
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Trident it is: Mixed propulsion research. Wingtip mounted jets with rockets on the aft fuselage. A little like our own SR53
I would never have got it myself! Well done.
EvansB has the lead
I would never have got it myself! Well done.
EvansB has the lead
