Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge
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Hi Trevor...following may help:
- A one-off design from a designer who has at least one other "one-off" to his name.
- Single seat
- Single exhaust (I think)
- Continental piston engine
- USA
- A one-off design from a designer who has at least one other "one-off" to his name.
- Single seat
- Single exhaust (I think)
- Continental piston engine
- USA
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Sorry, yes, it's a parasol and is described as such in the reference I found to it.
Edit to say closing down for the night now....usual rules apply.
Edit to say closing down for the night now....usual rules apply.
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Turning in now Ken, had a long day today and another early start tomorrow 
, so I'll leave this to those in a later/earlier timezone 
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Have you seen this one at Oshkosh?
Goodnight
, so I'll leave this to those in a later/earlier timezone !Have you seen this one at Oshkosh?
Goodnight
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Morning Trevor
No, found this one when searching for another parasol challenge quite recently. It was in an EAA publication, so I went to check to make sure it was on the net...and it was Comes up in a simple search, providing you get the parameters right
Have you seen this one at Oshkosh?
Comes up in a simple search, providing you get the parameters right
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Comes up in a simple search, providing you get the parameters right
Seems it's the Blackhawk III by Jack Bullard ? Back to work now, will check back next break
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Seems it's the Blackhawk III by Jack Bullard ?
. Yes, the one off Blackhawk III from 1999. There is also a Blackhawk I but no details on the II. The Blackhawk range seems to have escaped Aerofiles researchers!
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Evening.
So, what were those parameters? What string of words do you type in the search box? Annoys the **** outta me how you guys do it?! 
Some time ago I looked closer at the listings on the left side of the Aerofiles home page. There is an interesting page called "Features", and in there is a whole lot of links worth looking at, in particular this one...
Odds & Mods
Not a foolproof system, but sometimes you get lucky...
Norris [X99M] (clip via Bernhard C F Klein coll)
Foolproof Aeroplane 1930 = 1pOhwM; Quick tractor engine mounted above the wing. Fuselage was hinged to the wing with a universal joint to keep it level regardless of the wing's attitude. Flight unknown. [X99M].
Comes up in a simple search, providing you get the parameters right
managed to get 'em right!!
Some time ago I looked closer at the listings on the left side of the Aerofiles home page. There is an interesting page called "Features", and in there is a whole lot of links worth looking at, in particular this one...
Odds & Mods
Not a foolproof system, but sometimes you get lucky...
Norris [X99M] (clip via Bernhard C F Klein coll)Foolproof Aeroplane 1930 = 1pOhwM; Quick tractor engine mounted above the wing. Fuselage was hinged to the wing with a universal joint to keep it level regardless of the wing's attitude. Flight unknown. [X99M].
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G'day Graeme,
I just knew you'd get that one
!! It is the Norris Foolproof Aeroplane of 1930.
Chose 'coz it was a nearly a silhouette already, rather than any low-cunning, after all it was in Aerofiles, did have a piccie and it had the magic code 1pOhwM so even if you hadn't found it by exploring Aerofile's backwaters, it would have been a pretty easy search, will I ever learn 
!!
I guess this is Mr Norris, dunno if it ever flew though!
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I just knew you'd get that one
!! It is the Norris Foolproof Aeroplane of 1930.Chose 'coz it was a nearly a silhouette already, rather than any low-cunning, after all it was in Aerofiles, did have a piccie and it had the magic code 1pOhwM so even if you hadn't found it by exploring Aerofile's backwaters, it would have been a pretty easy search
, will I ever learn !!I guess this is Mr Norris, dunno if it ever flew though!
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Evening Trevor.
I'll have to look more closely at that. At the moment I'm still using words in the searches and not having much luck, but then again it's only going to work if American>Aerofiles.
Anyway, here's the next. This is what I thought Ken's was. It's also American so I'm interested to see how you go with the codey thing...
Heading off now with Son No.3 to look at some garage sales, back in an hour or so.
Cheers!
magic code 1pOhwM
Anyway, here's the next. This is what I thought Ken's was. It's also American so I'm interested to see how you go with the codey thing...
Heading off now with Son No.3 to look at some garage sales, back in an hour or so.
Cheers!
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Morning/Evening...not had a chance to look in this evening. Good call on the Foolproof Aeroplane Graeme Mind you I think you would be pretty foolish to want to venture skyward in it.
Your latest looks very familiar but from what say it's not in Aerofiles. Looks like a closed cockpit...single seat...1930's design?
Mind you I think you would be pretty foolish to want to venture skyward in it.Your latest looks very familiar but from what say it's not in Aerofiles. Looks like a closed cockpit...single seat...1930's design?
G'day Ken.
Looked on the net...open cockpit...
In my gimp I think the starboard wing has created a 'top' to the canopy.
Kitplane, American, circa 1995.
Did you see that?
Looked on the net...open cockpit...
In my gimp I think the starboard wing has created a 'top' to the canopy.
Kitplane, American, circa 1995.
Did you see that?