Name that Flying Machine
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Think it's a Dyke Delta.
Didn't some one on here, or maybe Flypast, see a French one visiting the UK last year?
Didn't some one on here, or maybe Flypast, see a French one visiting the UK last year?
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Have to be an open house...
I knew it was a Dyke Delta but treadders beat me to it! However, his open house allows me to post this "smiling" beauty:
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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.
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.
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And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section
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????
That's the one. The Ag-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_College_Ag-1)
Designed by Fred Weick of Ercoupe fame* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Weick) when he was at Texas A&M. He subsequently designed the Ag-3, which morphed into the Pawnee. Obviously, Redwoods were hard to come by in College Station!
I found these aircraft while looking for information on the Pawnee, in advance of flying my gliding club's new towplane!
dux has control.
* PS Fred had many other achievements that are not as well known as the Ercoupe. I didn't know until I read the Wiki article, that he was involved in the development of the NACA cowl - http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/...aca-tn-301.pdf
Designed by Fred Weick of Ercoupe fame* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Weick) when he was at Texas A&M. He subsequently designed the Ag-3, which morphed into the Pawnee. Obviously, Redwoods were hard to come by in College Station!
I found these aircraft while looking for information on the Pawnee, in advance of flying my gliding club's new towplane!
dux has control.
* PS Fred had many other achievements that are not as well known as the Ercoupe. I didn't know until I read the Wiki article, that he was involved in the development of the NACA cowl - http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/...aca-tn-301.pdf
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Well I never! I thought with the Pawnee, Piper had just turned a Cub upside down!
Piper had just turned a Cub upside down!
PS dduxbury310 has control.
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While we’re waiting for dux, I’ll post another obscure one that I just stumbled upon:
Look s like Yorkshire to me
Trust a geologist to spot the drystone walls!
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Geographers can spot them too!
Early effort by Yorkshire Sailplanes?
Early effort by Yorkshire Sailplanes?
The airfield might be in Yorkshire, but nothing to do with YS.
What was the designer thinking of with that nose-shape?
What was the designer thinking of with that nose-shape?