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Old 8th Mar 2020, 09:26
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Not too long after though - looks like a radial.
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 09:45
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First flew 1939. Trainer.
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 12:39
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Culver Cadet
But tail does not look right?
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 12:56
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It doesn't look right because it isn't a Culver..
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 19:37
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Still no other takers?
Harlow PC-5A
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 19:42
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That's some vertical stabiliser...must have knicked it from a B-17.

Radio antennae looking like a spindly nose gear strut missing a wheel?
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 20:03
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The Bear cracks the Harlow PC-5A.
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 20:31
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Well done Bear.
dook - may we see the photo non-silhouette? - an interesting looking aircraft.
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 20:35
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As requested...


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Old 8th Mar 2020, 20:38
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The Harlow photo is on wiki.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlow_PC-5

I think it is New bay in the background.

Now this 2D silhouette:



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Old 8th Mar 2020, 20:41
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It looks positively twitchy...
Wouldn't like to stall it - even though it's a Trainer.
Round and round and round you go - having said that - with that rudder authority - you'd probably get out of Dodge in a trice.
Looks like it's related to the T-6 - when the designers came off the whole big tail trip.

If someone had thought up Uber Air Taxi in the 40's - this is what they would have depicted on the advertising garb;
"Arrive relaxed at your destination, in our fully equipped aircraft - ready to satisfy all your air traveller needs, etc..."

Nice. Any still flying anywhere?
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 20:43
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Probably the same with the L......

I don't know if any Harlows are still airworthy. You can Google as well as I can.
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 20:55
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Unfortunately I can no longer Google on the Internet.
I can only refresh pages that I have recently visited - including this one.

My PC appears to be - without my authority - to be self-isolating...

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Old 8th Mar 2020, 21:40
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I believe there are some search engines who like to put themselves on top as standard opening page.

There are some PCJ-2’s still flying.
Other PJC-2s That Still Exist

Also contains the story behind the ultra large fin.
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 22:01
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Now then Bear, tell us about B/A ratios.
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Old 8th Mar 2020, 22:14
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Originally Posted by dook
Now then Bear, tell us about B/A ratios.
I do not know much about B/A-ratio's.
I am just a deep sunken shipbuilder spinned out of his education.

Please elevate me (and others)
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Old 9th Mar 2020, 08:08
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Not enough space here to go into pro/anti-spin characteristics and recovery.

I think the challenge is the Lockheed Alcor but I'm not sure exactly which model.
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Old 9th Mar 2020, 21:49
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Further investigation indicates it is probably a DUO-4 or DUO-6.
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Old 9th Mar 2020, 23:44
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Dook scores again!
the Alcor (Olympic) Duo.
This is clearly the Duo-6 as anyone can see due to the difference in air slots in the engine cowling!
remarkable engine set-up. Which forced me to only post a side view.


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Old 10th Mar 2020, 07:20
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Just a curious question having observed, but not taken part in these threads over the last decade or so, who or what is "Heikkis' " ?? I've looked back, but there never seemed to be any posts with that name. Just curious tis all ;-)
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