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Old 16th Apr 2009, 20:46
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I was thinking Germany!
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Enea Bossi, Sr. the Italian aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer designed the Pedaliante airplane. The Pedaliante flew short distances fully under human power in 1936, but the distances were not significant enough to win the prize of the Italian competition for which it was built. It was also launched using a catapult system I believe.
So is this aircraft Italian?
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Old 16th Apr 2009, 21:14
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I was thinking France!
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Old 16th Apr 2009, 21:30
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My thinking was Villinger/Hassler in 1935, albeit that it was a catapult launch. The first recorded fatality was I believe a German glider pilot in 1896.

Not that thats got me anywhere...I have exhausted my books on the matter, gone through my photo's, EAA magazines and am now trawling the net!
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Old 16th Apr 2009, 21:39
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The Villinger/Hassler flight in 1935 took place in France I believe, and the first fatality(s) I seem to remember was a couple of French balloonatics in 1785. So I'm thinking France too...

and thats where I came to a grinding halt...

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Old 16th Apr 2009, 21:59
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Sorry Guys , i was getting too obscure with my "clues" . Its the Greek built
HAT (Hellenic Aeronautical Technologies) LS-2 and I was trying to refer to the Daedulus / Icarus duo in my going on about man powered flight and first fatalaties.

Here is the said kitbuild composite


More at

HAT LS2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Open house

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Old 16th Apr 2009, 23:33
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and here is me, thinking of "real" accidents/mpf irrispective how I [try to] trick the pupils......
Thanks for the reminder one11.......
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 13:01
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Next Challenge

Seems to have ground to a halt so I will kick off with this easy one:-

Mel
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 13:39
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That tailplane looks enormous!

I can't ever remember seeing a 3 view but, is it the Kocheregin DI-6?

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Old 20th Apr 2009, 13:49
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Mel's Challenge

You have it drawbarz, it is the Kocheregin DI-6. The huge tailplane is artists licence I would say.



You have control.

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It might appear as a "stealth" aircraft, i.e. no picture, to you as I am using Mozilla Firefox as a Web Browser.
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 14:06
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Mel,

Artists or 'Drafty's' licence it may be in 30+ years in D.O. I've never drawn or been asked to draw anything like it lol.

I have nothing on this machine to post at the moment so I'm afraid it's open house again...sorry

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Old 20th Apr 2009, 15:08
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Gentlemen,
I am freshly registered (half an hour ago) so you will forgive me if I have problems in using correctly this forum or in submitting silly questions.
Once I master procedures everything will run smoother but please bear with me in the interim.
Cheers to all and sundry!
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 17:05
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One question please:
how do you attach images or pictures into your threads? There is no such syntax symbol in your "reply to thread box".
Thanks for your attention and patience
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P.S. Please use plain English no slang, thanks!
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 17:31
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I will try if attachments work this way.
Is there anybody kind enough to tell me the name of the aircraft illustrated in the above URL? It could be North American "Super savage" but of course I might be quite wrong.
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 17:39
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Your URL did not work.
Check the sticky thread above entitled "Image Posting on PPRune - some tips for you" which will give you details. However the method I use is to upload my photographs to Photobucket and then copy and paste the photographs IMG Code from the photobucket site directly onto the "reply to thread" message box. Either way I look forward to your seeing challenges. There is a list of aircraft sillhouettes already published included in the sticky thread "What Cockpit and What Aerodrome latest Lists" also above.
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 19:12
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Thanks very much MReyn24050 I'm trying hard let's see what happens now
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 19:26
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Can you seethe image now?
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 19:33
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I try again one last time for tonight
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 19:39
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Thanks Mreyn 24050 I seem to understand how image posting works now.
I go back therefore to my question on permalink 1799 of page 90: What type of aircraft is it?Is my assumption of North American Super Savage correct (It has contrarotating props for sure)?
Next time I hope to edit my threads in a more decent way without using too much forum space and without abusing of other people's patience....
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Old 20th Apr 2009, 20:20
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carson1934. I would say your assumption regarding this aircraft is correct the North American A2J Super Savage. Here is a link:-
A2J Super Savage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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