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Old 9th Mar 2011, 16:01
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I did say the original appeared to be inverted in this image!
Yes you did, that's when I started realizing what was going on.....



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Ooooohhhh - who's a clever chap then.

Now get the transparency sorted out.

Wossa big left aileron and no right?
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Now get the transparency sorted out.
A bit suspense. Too much for you mate?

Wossa big left aileron and no right?
Dunno. Is so in the original. Could not show my face in front of my Master if I had taken something away from the silhouette (there was no pilot to take away ).
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Old 9th Mar 2011, 16:11
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Is it a Bede BD-5 or is the gap under the vertical stabilizer really there?

Edit: maybe a Bd-7 (gear and horizontal stabilizer dihedral) but still looking for photos...

Re-Edit: no, a BD-5B like this one Photos: Bede BD-5B Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

Re-Re-Edit: actually, that one seems the source of the silhouette...
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Old 9th Mar 2011, 16:19
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HappyPass,

As you say, and the link is correct, too. Bede BD-5B. More a challenge to the silhouetter than to the rest of the gang .

HappyPass has the floor
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Believe me, I clocked that one straight away boys.

I just felt that since Reg had made such a nice job of it, it might be left up for longer.

Sometimes Reg, it takes longer to prepare than to be identified - believe me mate.
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Old 9th Mar 2011, 16:25
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Thanks RegDep!

Off to work with the new one!

Are eggbeaters allowed?

Whop whop whop!
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Old 9th Mar 2011, 16:33
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Sometimes Reg, it takes longer to prepare than to be identified - believe me mate.
I know, but I am not sorry about it now. I knew it was easy to ID, but it was so fun to do, and to find something new at every step......
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Ok, have to leave my computer unattended for say half an hour, maybe a little more, but I won't leave you guys without a proper clue.

There's something unconventional about it...
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There's something unconventional about it...
Sure looks that way - in that it appears unmanned.....

Like the Cierva W.9
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Sure looks that way - in that it appears unmanned.....
Or autogyro.....
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Just finished work and off home now; I think you've got it with the Cierva LM.

It was essentially a NOTAR helicopter, forty odd years before MD "invented" the idea again!

I may be back later, if I can bully my BB connection into life. If not seeya tomorrow breaktime
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Best of luck mate - now you are not the only one with connection problems.
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Squarehead iz PC hier, you Britischers!
Reg, you must understand that EVERYTHING in our country must be PC dumbkopff.

Remember something - there was a time when the sun never set on the British Empire!!

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Old 9th Mar 2011, 18:14
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Cierva W.9, correct!
Unmanned, not correct (at least I think so, since Wikipedia suggests it had a crew of two).



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Thanks mate - "pass the HP"...

I just love blue, don't you?.......

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there was a time when the sun never set on the British Empire!
It is now true with Norway, with Spitsbergen, Bouvet Island and Queen Maud Land in the Antarctic......

Yours yet another Häfeli LM?

OK, at any rate, Anzani engine, right?

See you guys in the morning. Night!

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Not a Häfeli, but you're correct with the engine.
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A Stampe & Vertongen Renard, number still open, possibly a monoplane version of a better known biplane.... Have seen a SV 22 / SV 26 (which it is not) in front of probably the same hangar.

Edit to say, maybe not S&V, they all would be parasols.....

Wasn't that "hangar" in fact an aviation museum storage hall?

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Old 10th Mar 2011, 06:48
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Guten morgen Reg.

Wasn't that "hangar" in fact an aviation museum storage hall?
I don't thing so. Neither do I think you would see a Renard here.

You still out there Reg?

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