What Cockpit?

[Mark 1]

I don't have a big library, but I'll offer this one:

[Jhieminga]

Photo taken at Reno?

[Mark 1]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

Photo taken at Reno?

You're not wrong!

[Mark 1]

Clue time: This is a replica. Only one, non-flying, original example exists.

[Jhieminga]

That helps, thanks! Jim Moss's Gee Bee R-6H replica 'Q.E.D.II' it is then (Had the Gee Bee R2 first, but have now found the correct photo...)

[Mark 1]

Jhieminga has it. Recently for sale at $900K, which was probably less than it cost to produce.
Seen on display At the Reno RCAR races 2014.

[Jhieminga]

We finally got there! Here's another one.

[sycamore]

Must be an aerobatic one with a stick that long...?

[FlightlessParrot]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Must be an aerobatic one with a stick that long...?

That's what she said.

[sycamore]

FP,you mean the lovely Svetlana...!

[Jhieminga]

Not an aerobatic type. No comment on the other replies .

[Mark 1]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

We finally got there! Here's another one.

It appears to be a single seater with side hinged canopy and entry from the right hand side, which is very unusual (unless the picture is reversed).

Is that a T-tail in the foreground?
I'm thinking possible motorglider but can't find a match.

[Jhieminga]

Single seater, that's correct. Cockpit entry was from either side, pilot's option. It's not a T-tail you're looking at but the fuselage side. Not a motorglider.

[Self loading bear]

Develish difficult,
I know looking into some jet kit planes but not the
Sub Sonex
Bd-5
Nor some Burt Rutan creations.
Am I on the right track?
I think we need some sort of clue.

[Jhieminga]

I figured as much 😄 Does it help if I say that the previous challenge was my inspiration? Also, SLB is pretty close with one of those guesses...

[Mark 1]

Thanks for the clue. It bought me back to something that I'd fleetingly considered but dismissed.

I think that what I believed to be a canopy on the left side is in fact a huge engine & canard wing, and this is N221BP the Pond Racer.

[Jhieminga]

It is, Mark 1 has control. I had to crop that engine out of the picture, otherwise it would have been too easy


Edit: there's a nice clip of the Pond Racer arriving at Reno in 1992 here:

You Tube

[Mark 1]

Thanks Jhieminga. A quick dig through the annuls of my travels finds this, which I don't think has been on here before,

[UV]

Is it the nose wheel look alike Chipmunk? Wagner Krishna or something?

[sycamore]

UV,or do you mean the Varga Kachina...?