Name that Flying Machine

[India Four Two]

I know. I thought about erasIng it!

[oncemorealoft]

It’s the Napier Heston Racer Type 5. Open House please, if confirmed.

[India Four Two]

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

[Quemerford]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

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

...and a natty radiator outlet beneath the tailplane, ahead of the rudder. Another beautiful machine.

[FlightlessParrot]

Originally Posted by Quemerford

...and a natty radiator outlet beneath the tailplane, ahead of the rudder. Another beautiful machine.

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.

[Quemerford]

Well I'm sticking with it.

[Jhieminga]

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.

[MReyn24050]

oncemorealoft declared Open House so to keep things moving here is the next:-

[FlightlessParrot]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

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.

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.

[India Four Two]

FP,
I did find this three-view of unknown provenance on an RC website. The plan view is uninspiring!

[India Four Two]

Mel,

Was your challenge built like that or was it originally a sesquiplane?

[MReyn24050]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

Mel,

Was your challenge built like that or was it originally a sesquiplane?

Hi Simon, it is Simon isn't it?
From the information I have it was built to meet a certain requirements. I hope in a way that answers your question.

[India Four Two]

Hi Mel,

Yes, it's Simon. I'm not sure in what way your answer helps me!

Is it from the US?

[Self loading bear]

I think the outboard flaps are a kind of full flapping ailerons?

[MReyn24050]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

Hi Mel,

Yes, it's Simon. I'm not sure in what way your answer helps me!

Is it from the US?

Yes it is from the USA.

[sablatnic]

Curtiss Tanager from the 1929? Guggenheim competition - the winner. The HP Gugnunch was 2.

[MReyn24050]

Originally Posted by sablatnic

Curtiss Tanager from the 1929? Guggenheim competition - the winner. The HP Gugnunch was 2.

You Have it sablatnic. It was the Curtiss Tanager


You have control.

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by sablatnic

Curtiss Tanager from the 1929? Guggenheim competition - the winner. The HP Gugnunch was 2.

Gugnunc, rather than Gugnunch.

The name has an interesting history:

[sablatnic]

Next next one, if I can make this work - and how do I modify a photo, so google can't recognize it?

[oxenos]

Looks like a Fokker Eindekker on skis, but the fin looks a little different