Silhouette challenge

[Noyade]

Well...not on Mel's list....

Described in Aerofiles as a 1964 "re-launch" of a much earlier design. No pics, as yet.

Was it built?

A site says one was built and flown.

[RegDep]

Cierva-DAF CD.1

[Noyade]

related to this?

I'll accept "this"

Skyway Engineering's version of the Pitcairn/Autogyro company's... AC-35.

Back to you WaspMan.....

[Ridge Runner]

Blimey!! I wasn't expecting that!!!!!

Well, get your teeth in to this one....

[HappyPass]

Tractor-prop lifting-body?

[Ridge Runner]

tractor but not lifting body, HP

[Ridge Runner]

Being fair I should say that on other photos I've discovered that the aircraft has stub-wings, which had been removed at the time of this silhouette. RR

[RegDep]

Are you saying that what we see on the right is the tail fin and not a winglet?

[Ridge Runner]

yes, that's correct, Reg

[Lightning Mate]

Remove those temporary fixed wheels and bolt the stub wings back on and you have yourself a WIGE.

[Ridge Runner]

you have yourself a WIGE

Not a WIGE, david

[Ridge Runner]

I'll also say that it had two props - you can just make out the other (whic I omitted to blacken!)

[Lightning Mate]

I also see a special sensor pitot probe, so it might well be experimental.

[Ridge Runner]

so it might well be experimental

It was, David. It never flew but was designed and built in anticpation of a research programme that never happened.

The photo from which this is taken does not show that it has two tail-fins, angled outwards, like a Raptor! The u/c was fixed.

RR

[Lightning Mate]

Anything else not shown/omitted?

[skytrain10]

Antonov An-181 maybe?

[Ridge Runner]

That's it, Ken. Now displayed at Kiev-Zhulyany museum.

er.. no, David



YOU HAVE CONTROL, Ken

[Lightning Mate]

.......

[skytrain10]

Cheers Martin...

Here we go:

[Ridge Runner]

Czech? A Meta-Sokol machine?