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G'day Graeme,
That looks like the two unbuilt Consolidated Y1P-25 fighter prototypes with Pratt & Whitney radial engines, which were allocated the designations YP-27 and YP-28 ??
The wind has abated a bit and my connection is more stable at the moment!
That looks like the two unbuilt Consolidated Y1P-25 fighter prototypes with Pratt & Whitney radial engines, which were allocated the designations YP-27 and YP-28 ??
The wind has abated a bit and my connection is more stable at the moment!
Consolidated YP-27
Your control Trevor. Catch ya later.
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Thanks Graeme,
Sorry mate; I don't think you'll like this one too much, but it's the only one I've got at the moment!
My next Challenge, or should I say contraption; needless to say it didn't fly, despite recieving considerable financial backing. It is in fact a photo of a model, built for an exhibition to commemorate the other contributions of the backer to the development of heavier than air flight.
It is on the web and can be found with a simple goggle search, provided one uses the correct keywords describing its more obvious features, paying attention to the terminology in use at the turn of the century before last and includes the name of the backer.
I do know one former regular SC player who knows the answer, but we haven't seen him for some time now, so perhaps this challenge will lure him back!
Sorry mate; I don't think you'll like this one too much, but it's the only one I've got at the moment!
My next Challenge, or should I say contraption; needless to say it didn't fly, despite recieving considerable financial backing. It is in fact a photo of a model, built for an exhibition to commemorate the other contributions of the backer to the development of heavier than air flight.
It is on the web and can be found with a simple goggle search, provided one uses the correct keywords describing its more obvious features, paying attention to the terminology in use at the turn of the century before last and includes the name of the backer.
I do know one former regular SC player who knows the answer, but we haven't seen him for some time now, so perhaps this challenge will lure him back!
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And your bite wins you the prize, it is indeed Rub's Paddle-wheel aeroplane/flying machine !!
There appears to be confusion in Rub's first name in my source, but I believe it was Wilhelm.
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There appears to be confusion in Rub's first name in my source, but I believe it was Wilhelm.
Ludwig Rüb SchaufelradFlugzeug / Schaufelrad-Flieger. The best translation into English could be a Paddle-wheel aeroplane.
Wilhelm Rüb (born in 1863 in Ulm) startet from humble beginnings as a shoemaker. Around 1880 he got interested in mechanics and started work in factories. Eventually he met an early aviation pioneer Alois Wolfsmüller, who apparently injected Rüb with enthusiasm for aviation.
Eventually Wilhelm Rüb got the financial help of Count Zeppelin in 1899 to realize his Paddle-wheel aeroplane, the idea of which was based on principles of Georg Wellner, Professor of the Technische Hochschule Brünn, some ten years earlier.
The design made by Rüb was for the technique of that time too advanced, so after the building of a model to prove the feasability and the making of (a few) parts, the agreement with Count Zeppelin ended on April 4, 1902 having spent 30.000 Mark (!).
The model seen in this Challenge was specially made for an exhibition in 2006 in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen. This exhibition focused on Zeppelin planes (heavier than air), to show that Count Zeppelin also had a large influence on the development of heavier than air machines.
Wilhelm Rüb (born in 1863 in Ulm) startet from humble beginnings as a shoemaker. Around 1880 he got interested in mechanics and started work in factories. Eventually he met an early aviation pioneer Alois Wolfsmüller, who apparently injected Rüb with enthusiasm for aviation.
Eventually Wilhelm Rüb got the financial help of Count Zeppelin in 1899 to realize his Paddle-wheel aeroplane, the idea of which was based on principles of Georg Wellner, Professor of the Technische Hochschule Brünn, some ten years earlier.
The design made by Rüb was for the technique of that time too advanced, so after the building of a model to prove the feasability and the making of (a few) parts, the agreement with Count Zeppelin ended on April 4, 1902 having spent 30.000 Mark (!).
The model seen in this Challenge was specially made for an exhibition in 2006 in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen. This exhibition focused on Zeppelin planes (heavier than air), to show that Count Zeppelin also had a large influence on the development of heavier than air machines.
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Thank's, it was indeed a fascinating contraption and their's a U-Tube video of a modern equivalent flying, albeit tethered!
I think that's a Grumman EA-6B Prowler ?
Off to work now, back later!
I think that's a Grumman EA-6B Prowler ?
Off to work now, back later!
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Await no more gentlemen, I'm back and as Brian said Open House please, I've just got to work and have no time to put up or monitor another one as going to be very busy today.
I was about to leave when I spotted Brian's reply, so I fired off my answer in a hurry to hopefully catch him before he ZZzzz! I went to add the OH house caveat when the line went down again 'coz the wind's got up again Argh!!
Try and see you later!
I was about to leave when I spotted Brian's reply, so I fired off my answer in a hurry to hopefully catch him before he ZZzzz! I went to add the OH house caveat when the line went down again 'coz the wind's got up again Argh!!
Try and see you later!
Down to three minutes now Graeme........
Is that a twin pusher or am I looking at the impossible?