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Old 20th Mar 2020, 11:25
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Feels like it over on Which Aerodrome dook.





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Old 20th Mar 2020, 12:20
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So I guess we are in Italy ?
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Old 20th Mar 2020, 12:50
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I'm quarantined so I'll play from a safe distance!

Saiman 200?

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Old 20th Mar 2020, 13:23
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Quarantine working !

Saiman 200 it is.

Your virus.
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Old 20th Mar 2020, 14:45
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Originally Posted by dook
Quarantine working !

Saiman 200 it is.
A new one on me: it looks even more like a Stampe with its clothes on.
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Old 20th Mar 2020, 14:56
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It does, until you look at the interplane struts.
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Old 20th Mar 2020, 15:51
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dook, Thanks. An interesting challenge and surprisingly, it was missing from my favourite reference book "Aircraft and the Air" by Eric Sargent.

No silhouette technology available so Open House.
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Old 20th Mar 2020, 17:57
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PM for I42.
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Old 20th Mar 2020, 19:14
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Here’s one that’s more modern.



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Old 20th Mar 2020, 19:18
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Aermacchi AL.60?
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 15:16
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I had never heard of the Aermacchi AL.60 so I looked it up and discovered it is the same aircraft as the one I posted, which is the Lockheed-Azcarate (LASA) 60.

An interesting history - designed by Al Mooney when he was at Lockheed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermacchi_AL-60





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Old 21st Mar 2020, 17:01
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I hope this does the trick:


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Old 21st Mar 2020, 20:12
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Interesting to say the least.

Am I right in thinking that the aircrafts' right engine is on the fuselage ?

If so, then the strut between the two engines might be to improve torsional rigidity.
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 20:18
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Originally Posted by dook
Interesting to say the least.

Am I right in thinking that the aircrafts' right engine is on the fuselage ?

If so, then the strut between the two engines might be to improve torsional rigidity.
No it's not: just the angle of the photo playing tricks!
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 20:18
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Anyone up for severe/ extreme asymmetrical flight?

Surely not dook. Unless some weird testing aircraft experiment gone wrong.

That's a trusy old PA-32 Seminole - if ever I've seen one - and I've flown it.

Oh sh1t - wait - that strut - and the tail wheel - not it's not.

Piper though...wait a minute...that's high-wing - hence dook's confusion...
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 20:27
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It looks like the mess you'd get if you crossed a Piper twin with a Cessna twin with some idiot adding "an extra leading edge" between the engines - and to stop them falling off.

I'm going to go back to original guess and say it's an Experimental prototype Piper.
Those are 360 Lyco's under those cowlings or I'll eat my hat.

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Old 21st Mar 2020, 20:27
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Looks a bit like a modified Do-28A?
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 21:08
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More like modified Pilatus PC-8D prototype
But apparently not.
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 21:35
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I'll run with the Dornier but can't find anything.
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 21:37
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Helio Twin Courier!
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