Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge

[Ridge Runner]

Morning Ken! I agree. If you compare the photos there are size and proportion differences. Check the wheels, for example. Proportionally they are different for sure.

RR

[RegDep]

Exactly. The discussion about whether or not it is a replica was basically my past-time when we waited for the call. And I find the discussion about the version (although RR referred to a "version" in his brief on engine) a bit academic. The way I read the lists, 1As (at least some of them) were 1s with a retrofitted 85hp engine. Whether there were other modifications, I don't know. The challenge has an engine that is neither, so the closest one can get is DAR-1, hence my conviction that this belongs to Mate.

I hope he surfaces soon and takes the control.

Edit: He's back!

[Lightning Mate]

Sorry guys.

After my post 517 I had to leave to take a class, at which stage Reg was the winner.

I have just come back and expected a challenge from Reg, only to find the thread very interesting reading.

[Lightning Mate]

A straightforward one, with no doubts about its' name....



edit: forgot the tip of the elevator.

[skytrain10]

Afternoon David....American homebuild biplane?

[Lightning Mate]

Afternoon Ken.

Sort of - it was built by its' designer, but not a homebuilt in the true sense of the word.

[skytrain10]

Ah ok, a one-off then. Looks like he or she used a collection of bits from other aircraft and stuck them all together!

[Lightning Mate]

used a collection of bits from other aircraft and stuck them all together!

I agree, it looks that way, except that it wasn't.

[Ridge Runner]

Hi David,

the tail surfaces seem to be a V. Would that be right? I'm guessing this is a yank from the inter-war period, judging by the telegraph poles?

RR

[trucky04]

Merrit CIT-9 Safety Plane?

[Lightning Mate]

Not a V-tail mate, but you're correct about the rest.

Merrit CIT-9 Safety Plane?

Not that either trucky.

[skytrain10]

Not that either trucky

You sure mate...NX5665 Merrill CIT-9 Safety Plane? Must be closely connected if not - looks pretty much the same.

[Lightning Mate]

He got the designers name wrong.

However, he must be the winner.

trucky has the thread.

[RegDep]

There are pictures of two different aeroplanes in the Merrill CIT-9 Safety Plane entry in Aerofiles…..

[Lightning Mate]

Its' name given was the Merrill experimental movable-wing biplane.

It has CIT-9 on the fuselage, so I think it's fair to give it to trucky, especially as he found it before the rest of you, and he's new here.

Let's see if he has a sleeve.

[skytrain10]

Hi trucky04. I see you are still out there. Do you have anything to post? If you don't we would ask that you declare Open House so that the thread can continue. Many thanks.

[trucky04]

Very sorry late reply. Tried to open photo Bucket. Could not. OPEN HOUSE

[RegDep]

Let me cover the OH for a change:

[Lightning Mate]

Kit-built?

[Ridge Runner]

A Russian WIGE aircraft, Reg?