Name that Flying Machine

[India Four Two]

Not my study. Someone else's or perhaps a hangar with shelves?

[India Four Two]

treadigraph,

Re your comment, you may be on the right track.

The DC-5 was flown to Tachikawa Air Force Base, Japan by Huruo Odagiri. Test flown by Japanese Air Technical Intelligence Group. During the next two years the aircraft was extensively flight tested and the Japanese were particularly interested in the wing slots, dihedral tailplane and the relationship of the design to the Douglas A-20.

[Mark 1]

So BMS suggests an electric powered aircraft. Vario and low Vne suggests motor glider and a single seat or tandem cockpit doesn't leave many options.

Not Stemme or Pipistrelle as they're side by side, so I'm guessing it's the SolarStratos high altitude project.

[UV]

Hmmm....I wonder if it is a side by side aircraft. Seems to be too wide for a single seater looking at the width of the centre console.

Looking up “Carbonwacker” led me to their website with a pic of a Stemme S12 retrofitted fitted with Solar Panels.

However, as Mark says, the VNE is so low. Only 109, instead of the usual 140 or so.

Could that be something do do with the solar panels?

[Jhieminga]

I thought we did the cockpits on another thread...

[Herod]

FSX, P3D or MSFS?

[India Four Two]

I thought we did the cockpits on another thread...

My mistake, Jhieminga. I posted on the wrong "What's this aviation related object?" thread. Sorry.

However, Mark 1 has it - the Solar Stratos - a solar-power 25 m tandem two-seater:

https://www.solarstratos.com/en/




Mark has declared OH, so it's back to exterior photos, like the one above.

[Mark 1]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

Mark has declared OH, so it's back to exterior photos, like the one above.

Oh no I haven't. So try this:

[meleagertoo]

I'll call that a Hamilton H47
Wossat??? That's what I thought too!

[FlightlessParrot]

The Wikipedia article on the Hamilton H-47 includes a marvellous example of marketing chutzpah:

During 1930, Isthmian Airways used Hamilton floatplanes for their service linking the Atlantic to the Pacific between respectively Cristóbal, Colón and Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. The airline impudently claimed the 30-minute flight as the "fastest transcontinental service in North America".

[Mark 1]

Well done Meleagertoo!
Yes the Hamilton H47 MetalPlane.
This last remaining airworthy example on one of its visits to Oshkosh.

Over to you.

[meleagertoo]

Interesting looking machine, and intrigued too to see that the "Hamilton" logo is legible-ish on the photo above but I couldn't for the life of me make anything of it at all it against the corrugations in the original b & w pic.

Anyhoo, OH please.

[Terry Dactil]

Came across this one recently. It has a design feature way ahead of its time!

[Jhieminga]

Junkers 252 with 'trapoklappe'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_252

OH again I'm afraid.

[Terry Dactil]

Sorry, but it is not a Junkers Ju 252
(there is no aerodynamic balance on the rudder)

[Noyade]

Junkers Ju 352?

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

Here's an easy one to keep things rolling. Look what I discovered while beach combing on my tropical island:

Another dead Emily. My father took this photo somewhere around late '45 or early '46 in Rabaul (as far as I know) when he was with the Forrester's involved in returning Japanese to their homeland....

[Jhieminga]

I stand corrected, I had forgotten how similar these two beasts were...

[Terry Dactil]

Noyade has it with the Junkers Ju 352
A 3 engine aircraft with ventral stairs; so far ahead of Boeing who waited for jet engines and tricycle undercarriages before making the B727.

[Noyade]

Thanks Terry.

Try this...



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