Challenge
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Your topic (or Graeme's, it's up to you) 
Suggest open house.
Speaking of which - no list, so we just start afresh?
My pleasure 
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Sorry AZR other commitments I am afraid. Your latest certainly looks interesting.
Cannot see any control cable runs. Thinking it might be one of a pair of tailbooms. OV10 Bronco perhaps?
Second thoughts not the Bronco.
Cannot see any control cable runs. Thinking it might be one of a pair of tailbooms. OV10 Bronco perhaps?
Second thoughts not the Bronco.
Last edited by MReyn24050; 23rd February 2013 at 18:13.
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From: With Wonko, outside the Asylum.
Well, I can see two flexible cables which might just be teleflex or similar but are more probably electrical. There's a cross-member with what might be a trimming device, but fairly well forward of the after end.
The flat top lends itself to the mounting of external transmission, eg for a tail rotor, though I can see no strengthening or fixings associated with this...
Echo, echo, echo... Rotary wing?
The flat top lends itself to the mounting of external transmission, eg for a tail rotor, though I can see no strengthening or fixings associated with this...
Echo, echo, echo... Rotary wing?
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For those at the top/far end, I think so too but without certainty there.
Good catch.
Last edited by AlphaZuluRomeo; 24th February 2013 at 13:47.
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I'll have a stab at a Mi-24 Hind. That seems to have the right shaped section to the lower 2/3 of the tailboom (assuming the upper 1/3 is the trans tunnel).
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Not a Hind, nacluv, sorry.
The outside the tailboom, same day, during maintenance: (you can see the transmission axis - almost black on the pic due to light - and, in front of it, the - tiny - cable controlling the pitch of the tail rotor)
View from behind, just before landing a few days before:
What a nice machine she was.
I miss hearing her unmistakable sound around here.
Open House it is, then.
Well done, sycamore.
The outside the tailboom, same day, during maintenance: (you can see the transmission axis - almost black on the pic due to light - and, in front of it, the - tiny - cable controlling the pitch of the tail rotor)
View from behind, just before landing a few days before:
What a nice machine she was.
I miss hearing her unmistakable sound around here.
Open House it is, then.
Well done, sycamore.
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From: With Wonko, outside the Asylum.
Yes, I looked at eastern bloc machines too... And at lattice frameworks a la Bell 47 which might have developed into more advanced monocoques... Didn't get to the gentille Alouette though...
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Interesting. Unusual for the innie to be facing the same direction as the outies. Unless they are cooling ducts.
So it looks like an inline twin (or possible triple) high-wing monoplane of 20s or 30s vintage. I would like to say Fokker Mk VIII, but I can't find any reference to one with inline engines.
So it looks like an inline twin (or possible triple) high-wing monoplane of 20s or 30s vintage. I would like to say Fokker Mk VIII, but I can't find any reference to one with inline engines.
