Silhouette challenge

[Lightning Mate]

....and there was I thinking how many cantilever trycycle cabin biplanes there are around!

So is it a home/kit built jobber with experimental status?

edit - just seen your answer.

[RegDep]

I also think it may be filed under experimental homebuilt.

My Lionheart reference says that it is (was?) the only homebuilt with negative stagger.

[Lightning Mate]

Well, it certainly ain't the Lionheart Reg, and it appears that it is not a homebuilt either.

We must be looking at a production aeroplane.

[skytrain10]

My Lionheart reference says that it is (was?) the only homebuilt with negative stagger.

It's wrong! There are other negative stagger homebuilts, although as previously advised, this is not classified as a homebuilt.

[Lightning Mate]

Not classified as such in Janes

If you subscribe to that mate, the drinks will be on you! I assume you have a book copy.

Any chance of a year............

[skytrain10]

If you subscribe to that mate, the drinks will be on you! I assume you have a book copy.

I do indeed...got it in a charity shop some time ago. Cost a fiver!

[Lightning Mate]

some time ago eh!

Pre-millenium?

[skytrain10]

Any chance of a year............

Designed in the late 80's.

some time ago eh!

2009 to be precise! Don't think they realised what they were selling...ex Library copy so well thumbed.

[skytrain10]

Do you want to see the rest of the aircraft?

[Lightning Mate]

I certainly have had enough of the same old stuff which keeps pitching up!

[skytrain10]

This should help then....shades of the Durand V about it so it wasn't a bad call by Happy Pass....just no struts.

[Lightning Mate]

Blimey - that's lot more stagger than I would have thought!

Perhaps this thing should be classified as a tandem-wing and not biplane.

[HappyPass]

Ganzavia GAK-22 Dino

Edit: scrap the question mark, that's definitely the one!

[Lightning Mate]

........

[skytrain10]

Happy Pass....well done. It is the Ganzavia GAK-22 Dino from Hungary. Deisgned as a multipurpose utility aircraft, only 2 were built. At least one of those is still in existance in a museum in Budapest.



You have control Happy Pass.

[HappyPass]

...and that makes five confirmed kills!

I must admit that it didn't occur to me to search for a _"tandem wing" tricycle "negative stagger"_ (and that brought up the desired picture) until I saw LM's post... he most definitely shares the merit...

Now I must now go and eat the pork I've been cooking the whole morning , so that'll probably mean Open House...

[Lightning Mate]

skytrain - PM reply.

[skytrain10]

I must admit that it didn't occur to me to search for a _"tandem wing" tricycle "negative stagger"_ (and that brought up the desired picture) until I saw LM's post... he most definitely shares the merit

It is actually described as a biplane. Must admit when you came up with the Durand V I was expecting it to go very quickly! Enjoy your lunch

[Lightning Mate]

HP,

Are you coming back very soon?

[RegDep]

Kinda interesting: A Giggle search with string 'negative stagger cantilever biplane' doesn't seem to bring Ganzavia Dino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, even if all those words are in the text. At least not up-front, which you would expect (I did use this string and got just dry trawl).

I have found the same once in a while. Somehow Giggle does not index all Wikipedia very well....

As to the OH, I think a pork (at least well cooked) should not take too long for us to wait. Just had home (self) made potato salad, Wiener Wurst, and a glass of basic Riesling, and am content to wait until HappyPass is back.