Name that Flying Machine

[SMOKEON]

Thank you.
Open House.

[Self loading bear]

To take up the Open House

[Zaxis]

Airmotive EOS 001 ?

[Self loading bear]

very well done!
the thread is yours.

Originally Posted by Zaxis

Airmotive EOS 001 ?

[Zaxis]

Thank you...
It was a fun one to track down.
So lets find out what this is

[fauteuil volant]

Are the engine and the fuselage offset from one another or is that an optical illusion created by the paint scheme?

[FlightlessParrot]

Is that the Polish PZL M-17, known affectionately as "Hairy Dudus"?

Open House if so--I have nothing suitably exotic.

[Zaxis]

It certainly is the Hairy Dudus. Much prettier than its M15 cousin.

I'll throw in a quickie. It's a bit of an eye test, driving to a castle in north east England will not help. The ringed plane in the photo...

[Jhieminga]

Is that a Verhees Delta?

[Zaxis]

Unfortunately not, it's a bit older than that.

[treadigraph]

Think it's a Dyke Delta.

Didn't some one on here, or maybe Flypast, see a French one visiting the UK last year?

[Zaxis]

Spot on, it is a Dyke Delta so over to you.



Have to say I think the Verhees Delta is a lot more sci-fi

[treadigraph]

Have to be an open house...

[Jhieminga]

I’ve been mixing up my deltas

[FlightlessParrot]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

I’ve been mixing up my deltas

I must say I Googled "Dyke Delta" with a certain trepidation, but only aircraft turned up.

[India Four Two]

I knew it was a Dyke Delta but treadders beat me to it! However, his open house allows me to post this "smiling" beauty:

[dduxbury310]

That would be a Transland aircraft of some description (trusting my rickety memory) from the USA in, I think, mid to late 1950s, intended for aerial application of spray against unsuspecting caterpillars or some such. And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section, and a very broad undercarriage track too.

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by dduxbury310

That would be a Transland aircraft of some description (trusting my rickety memory) from the USA in, I think, mid to late 1950s, intended for aerial application of spray against unsuspecting caterpillars or some such. And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section, and a very broad undercarriage track too.

From the same designer as the Ercoupe.

[treadigraph]

And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section

Exactly what I was thinking - saw a redwood trunk in half and plane a bit off!

[Self loading bear]

Originally Posted by dduxbury310

That would be a Transland aircraft of some description ........spray against unsuspecting caterpillars or some such....,.

If I42 requires exact type:
This is the Texas/Transland/Weick Ag-1.
But I leave the honor too Dux.

Dduxbury,
as I have no experience in crop spraying; is there a significant difference in spraying unsuspecting caterpillars and suspecting caterpillars?
I could imagine the latter ones go into cocooning????