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Mel's challenge
Oh dear. My challenge seems to have slowed things down, normally, we would have had about 4 different challenges in the time between me posting mine and now. Time for a clue, it was from the USA.
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Thats what normally happens when I have a day off. no doubt I'll log in tomorrow and see four new pics, three of which I will know, and the one I don't will be the last one 
I wish it had been the Arpin
Having said all that, I'm sure I have seen it before and the plane I am grasping for was American too, must try harder.
I wish it had been the Arpin
Having said all that, I'm sure I have seen it before and the plane I am grasping for was American too, must try harder.
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skytrain10 
you have it. It is indeed the Bryan's Autoplane.
You have control.
you have it. It is indeed the Bryan's Autoplane.
Leland D. (Dewey) Bryan of Milford Michigan designed, built and flew three different versions of his Autoplane, using materials from an Ercoupe as the basis for the construction of these aircraft. The first was flown in 1953.
Model II is illustrated here, and used a Continental A-75 engine as a pusher, had a wingspan of 22', and an all-metal twin-boom tail. It was convertible from air to road use by means of a folding-wing, designed to form a protective rectangle around the prop. The pusher propeller provided both air and road power. Maximum speed on the ground was about 60 mph. The Model II traveled about 1000 miles on the road under its own power and flew for about 65 hours.
He rebuilt the Model II to create the two-seater III in the 1970s, changing each wing so that it would fold once to an upright position, rather than twice to form a rectangle. Bryan died in the crash of his Roadable III in 1974. It is reported that the cause of the crash was the failure of a wing to lock securely in the extended position.
Model II is illustrated here, and used a Continental A-75 engine as a pusher, had a wingspan of 22', and an all-metal twin-boom tail. It was convertible from air to road use by means of a folding-wing, designed to form a protective rectangle around the prop. The pusher propeller provided both air and road power. Maximum speed on the ground was about 60 mph. The Model II traveled about 1000 miles on the road under its own power and flew for about 65 hours.
He rebuilt the Model II to create the two-seater III in the 1970s, changing each wing so that it would fold once to an upright position, rather than twice to form a rectangle. Bryan died in the crash of his Roadable III in 1974. It is reported that the cause of the crash was the failure of a wing to lock securely in the extended position.
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Thanks Mel. I am always amazed at the quantity of aircars/autoplanes or whatever that were developed. And yet despite everyone's efforts we still drive cars and fly in aeroplanes!
Here's one to consider:
Here's one to consider:
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A tad out of my knowledge range but how about starting with German? The engine seems to have that look about it. I'd also say not American and not British. Oddly it is very angular and then has a part-shamrock bolted to the tail! .... My six penny worth for now .... RR
On second thoughts it is not the cylinders protruding from the engine bay. That would make it a horizontally opposed eight, and the cylinders would then have to be staggered.
So they must be the exhaust stubs, which makes it an 8 cylinder engine.
The circular jobber between the wheels does look too small to be a radiator.
Remember, this is one of Skytrains'.....
So they must be the exhaust stubs, which makes it an 8 cylinder engine.
The circular jobber between the wheels does look too small to be a radiator.
Remember, this is one of Skytrains'.....