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Thanks HD.
Here is the next one:-
Mel
The first aircraft projected the P.133 was to be a VTOL aircraft powered by two DH Gyron Juniors with afterburners, supplemented by a Spectre rocket engine. In its intitial version, the aircraft was a single-seat fighter dart shaped overall, with the turbojets near the wingtips, and six fans in all, providing the lift. the P.133A form incorporated an equipment rearrangement with only four lift engines. The P.133B, in November 1956, was a radically different layout specifically for a two-seat naval search and strike aircraft, with only the Gyron Junior engines and no rocket.
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Evening Mel! Snowing where you are?
The crank wing sent me scurrying for photos of Yermolayev aircraft but was disappointed. Still looking at Russians, the Bartini Stal 7 looks promising but there are a number of differences compared to the photo I have. If not, maybe Japanese?
(Gotta go. Mortgage needs to be paid regularly)
Cheers
Graeme.
The crank wing sent me scurrying for photos of Yermolayev aircraft but was disappointed. Still looking at Russians, the Bartini Stal 7 looks promising but there are a number of differences compared to the photo I have. If not, maybe Japanese?
(Gotta go. Mortgage needs to be paid regularly)
Cheers
Graeme.
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Hi Graeme. Yes, it has been snowing here and many cars are having difficulty getting up the road that passes next to my house, but it is nice and warm in the house. You have it is indeed the Bartini Stal'7, well that is what the reference says from which I got the drawing.
You have control.
Mel
Only one aircraft was built, in the workshops of ZOK, the factory for GVF experimental construction. The first flight was made on an unrecorded date in autumn 1936, the pilot being N P Shebanov. Performance was outstanding, and Shebanov proposed attempting a round-the-world flight. In 1937 the Stal-7 was fitted with 27 fuel tanks with a total capacity of 7,400 litres (1,628 Imperial gallons, 1,955 US gallons). A maximum-range flight was then attempted, but - possibly because of structural failure of a landing gear - the aircraft crashed on take-off. Bartini was arrested, and was placed in detention
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Thanks Mel! It's around 35 Deg.C here today with fire warnings. We've already had a number of bushfires with livestock and property loss around the area.
Thought this looked interesting...
Thought this looked interesting...
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Hello , bonjour
It seems to be the " SILENT FAMILY Helmut Grossklaus " from Germany
If it would be right ,please OPEN HOUSE : I 'll not be at home up to February ...
I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
Richard
It seems to be the " SILENT FAMILY Helmut Grossklaus " from Germany
If it would be right ,please OPEN HOUSE : I 'll not be at home up to February ...
I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
Richard
It seems to be the " SILENT FAMILY Helmut Grossklaus " from Germany
And a merry, safe Christmas to you mate! Going anywhere? Holidays?Bilder Galerie
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Good morning boys!!!! Yes, have a great Christmas Richard! How are you Graeme? I've been quiet over the weekend and so I'm catching up... Some nice challenges!
Martin
PS: We could do with some of your warmth over here!
Martin
PS: We could do with some of your warmth over here!
Morning to all!
Pretty good thanks mate. Yourself?
Got the evaporative air-conditioner on so life's bearable at the moment. Probably won't be so comfortable tomorrow as my two eldest sons have gone into the "junk mail" business and stupidly, I offered to help, delivering junk mail to 500 houses in 35 deg.C. Christmas Eve we're expecting 40 deg.C.
Your challenge. All I can think of is American? Something is written on the fuselage..."DEADEND"...?
How are you Graeme?
Got the evaporative air-conditioner on so life's bearable at the moment. Probably won't be so comfortable tomorrow as my two eldest sons have gone into the "junk mail" business and stupidly, I offered to help, delivering junk mail to 500 houses in 35 deg.C. Christmas Eve we're expecting 40 deg.C.
Your challenge. All I can think of is American? Something is written on the fuselage..."DEADEND"...?