Name that Flying Machine

[chevvron]

The cockpit sides and nose are wrong for a Barge/Sedbergh; maybe one of the prototypes?

[BEagle]

Grunau Baby.

[chevvron]

Grunau Baby was single seat however the T21 series was developed by Fred Slingsby based on it.

[India Four Two]

Clearly inspired by the T21b Sedbergh, but with some differences. Here's the whole aircraft. Note the dive-brakes rather than hinged spoilers and the different fin and rudder.

Grunau Baby was single seat however the T21 series was developed by Fred Slingsby based on it.

​​​​​​​I remember a joke along the lines of Slingsby mis-reading the plans for the Baby, thinking the dimensions were inches rather than centimetres!

[Asturias56]

Is it British?

[India Four Two]

No. Go east, young man!

[Asturias56]

European?

[India Four Two]

Further east.

[Asturias56]

Part of the Empire n which the sun never set?

[India Four Two]

Rule Britannia!

[meleagertoo]

Civil Air Department RG-1 Rohini from India.

[India Four Two]

Sorry Asturias! Pipped at the post by meleagertoo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_...nt_RG-1_Rohini

I stumbled on the Rohini quite by accident. I was looking up information on the Indian Mutiny, which took me to Lucknow and then to Cawnpore - now Kanpur. While looking at locations on Google Earth associated with the Siege of Cawnpore, I noticed a small airfield near the centre of the city, which took me to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight...ry,_IIT_Kanpur

A Rohini glider, designed and developed at Technical Center of Civil Aviation Department and manufactured at HAL, was the jewel in the crown of the Flight Lab. The open cockpit, side-by-side seating, fabric covered wooden structure glider became very popular among students and used extensively for research work.

It's amazing where the Internet rabbit hole takes you.

meleagertoo has control.

[meleagertoo]

It's amazing where the Internet rabbit hole takes you.

Ain't that a fact!

So on that note here's a bit(!) of a surprise to me despite being a helo man.
I had no idea these guys were into building helicopters.

[Noyade]

Could be a very rare French machine?

[Haraka]

IIRC some of the Westland/ Sud Helos had French car door handles.

[meleagertoo]

Well, that didn't last did it? Noyade has it.

I'm pretty sure the Gazelle had Renault 12 door handles and the fresh air vent pull was a Renault 12 choke control. (I had a Renault 12 at the time)

[sycamore]

Either Renault or Citroen had a car factory near the Aerospatiale factory in Marignane in early `70s..

[Noyade]

Cheers Mel.

[Zaxis]

CC01e, a small French canard aircraft designed by Claude Chudzik

You Tube

[Noyade]

Nice looking bird from the late 80s. Over to you Zaxis.