Name that Flying Machine

[dook]

I think it was solved at post #1101.

[Self loading bear]

Happy to see you back Fauteuil Volant!
With the 24hr rule lifted I hope to see more from you.
Fauteuil Volant has correctly identified the Scheldemeeuw built before WWII by the aeroplane department of Naval Shipyard De Schelde.




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[Self loading bear]

MReyn gets the bonus rolls for the Caption competition.

YouTube Scheldemusch and Scheldemeeuw

[dook]

I don't know about the Netherlands, but with the hoarding of toilet rolls here it is easier and probably cheaper to buy 100 pairs of disposable underpants instead !

[fauteuil volant]

..... but not this time, SLB, I'm afraid to say. I've nothing immediately to offer so, I fear, that I must say OH. I'll try to do better in future.

[fauteuil volant]

As no-one has stepped into the breach and I've had time, this morning, to find another challenge ..... here goes!

[Auxtank]

Originally Posted by dook

I don't know about the Netherlands, but with the hoarding of toilet rolls here it is easier and probably cheaper to buy 100 pairs of disposable underpants instead !

Amazing what you can do with a few toilet rolls...

You Tube

[dook]

The challenge looks a real oddball.

Is it by any chance French ?

[fauteuil volant]

Yes, it's French.

[Quemerford]

Well it must be a Druine, but the extra bit have me foxed.

[dook]

I can't see a prop, so is it a pusher ?

[fauteuil volant]

Whilst I can see why you've found similarities with the Turbulent, the limited information that I have gives no indication that this oddity was created out of a Turbulent. The indications are that it was constructed from scratch - oh, and it did fly.

I think that the apparent absence of a propeller is down to the the photograph. As far as I'm aware, it is a tractor. But look closely at the photograph and see what is missing, which you'd expect to find on most fixed wing aircraft.

[dook]

All I can see that could be missing are flaps.

[Asturias56]

Is the 24 hour rule lifted? I've been traveling ...

[Herod]

That's one hell of a speedbrake.

[fauteuil volant]

More than flaps are missing from the wings. They are aileron free zones! That's why this aeroplane has the 'sticky up thing' emerging from the fuselage aft of its cockpit.

[dook]

I've flown an aircraft with no ailerons but that one takes the biscuit !

[fauteuil volant]

The 'sticky up thing' - whose technical name is a lateron - replaced ailerons on this 1959 single seater. Its designer had plans to build a two seater version, but these did not come to fruition.

[dook]

Might this be the ARL-11 Baby Squale ?

[longer ron]

Originally Posted by fauteuil volant

The 'sticky up thing' - whose technical name is a lateron - replaced ailerons on this 1959 single seater.

Presumably the Lateron was so named because the designer was going to fit ailerons Later on to this a/c when the silly looking thingy on top of the fuselage turned out to be useless (ahem)

You can blame my partner for that comment btw - she thought that one up