Name that Flying Machine
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Correct. An aircraft I stumbled on recently. Until I looked it up, I thought it was a light-aircraft racer, but it had a Napier Sabre engine!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier-Heston_Racer
Crashed on its first flight, luckily the pilot survived.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier-Heston_Racer
Crashed on its first flight, luckily the pilot survived.
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Correct. An aircraft I stumbled on recently. Until I looked it up, I thought it was a light-aircraft racer, but it had a Napier Sabre engine!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier-Heston_Racer
Crashed on its first flight, luckily the pilot survived.
oncemorealoft has declared Open House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier-Heston_Racer
Crashed on its first flight, luckily the pilot survived.
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I'm not saying this just to be argumentative, but I really wonder about "beautiful." It seems to me to suffer from the exaggeration and unbalance (from a purely aesthetic point of view) that often goes with racers and extreme speed machines. I'm thinking of the Gee Bee racers, for instance. Someone might say that this is a very subjective thing, which is true, but I noticed when I went to Wikipedia to look up the Heston-Napier, the author of the article puts "beautiful" in quote marks; and also that this aircraft rather spectacularly did NOT fly right.
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I must admit that, aesthetically, I too find it a beautiful design. When I look at it from a piloting perspective, I only see a big packet of trouble. So I guess it all depends on your viewpoint. 
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Indeed. I was wondering whether I would change my mind if I saw it from other angles, so I searched for images, hoping an in-flight photograph would show me something breathtaking about the wings. I saw there weren't many in-flight photographs. Then I remembered why.
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sablatnic,
I wouldn't worry about modifying your photo. The fun of this and the other two quizzes, is in searching for the solution and/or posting guesses for the poster to respond to, by posting clues.
The convention adopted by most of the regulars here, is to not use any form of automatic image search. Doing so takes away the fun.
I wouldn't worry about modifying your photo. The fun of this and the other two quizzes, is in searching for the solution and/or posting guesses for the poster to respond to, by posting clues.
The convention adopted by most of the regulars here, is to not use any form of automatic image search. Doing so takes away the fun.
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That looks like a Finnish flag on the tail and they did have Eindekkers. The fin may be misleading. I think I see left aileron and right rudder which would shorten the view of the fin trailing edge.