Name that Flying Machine
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Cockpit reminds me of something homebuilt, maybe a few lines of DNA in it...
Searching for this aircraft has taken me to aeroplanes I'd rather not have known ever existed.............
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It's the Colomban MC-30 that I was reminded of but engines and tail arrangement notwithstanding, the cockpit, though similar, is different!
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Typing in F-WLDE, I get pictures of Oscar Wilde...
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I have tried the following sites with no success:
https://www.aviafrance.com/recherche.php
http://www.antonakis.co.uk/registers/France.txt
https://immat.aviation-civile.gouv.f...ef_liste.html#
I think I saw somewhere that F-Wxxx is for prototypes, but with numerals following the W.
Not merely a prototype, but pseudonymous? The ultimate spy plane?
https://www.aviafrance.com/recherche.php
http://www.antonakis.co.uk/registers/France.txt
https://immat.aviation-civile.gouv.f...ef_liste.html#
I think I saw somewhere that F-Wxxx is for prototypes, but with numerals following the W.
Not merely a prototype, but pseudonymous? The ultimate spy plane?
This is the hardest challenge of my time on here 
- all sorts of weird aircraft turn up but nothing quite like the challenge - the Cri-Cri is probably closest but still nothing like this horror
I have to ask - did it really fly?
- all sorts of weird aircraft turn up but nothing quite like the challenge - the Cri-Cri is probably closest but still nothing like this horrorI have to ask - did it really fly?
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"I think I saw somewhere that F-Wxxx is for prototypes, but with numerals following the W."
Flightless Parrot: F-Wxxx is used for flight testing, after which the registration reverts to a "normal" sequence, but still keeping the last three. So we need to see if there is a regular registration (eg: F-BLDE or others, but that was a Jodel). I've looked but find nothing.
What a challenge!
Laurence
Flightless Parrot: F-Wxxx is used for flight testing, after which the registration reverts to a "normal" sequence, but still keeping the last three. So we need to see if there is a regular registration (eg: F-BLDE or others, but that was a Jodel). I've looked but find nothing.
What a challenge!
Laurence
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As it appears to be a homebuilt, I looked for F-PLDE. Naught, not even on DGAC register. Perhaps it was a prop for a film or something.
Thank you all for your suggestions and clarifications.
This might become unsolvable.
Did it Fly?
I guess so
P19 Glimmering is the best suggestion so far!
I was thinking about the Cri-Cri Obesity.
I have send an email to the Sisteron soaring club if they can find it in their visitors logs.
Has anyone explored the search path of the engines?
I think it are no diesels but Hirth 3702.
Hirth
This might become unsolvable.
Did it Fly?
I guess so
P19 Glimmering is the best suggestion so far!
I was thinking about the Cri-Cri Obesity.
I have send an email to the Sisteron soaring club if they can find it in their visitors logs.
Has anyone explored the search path of the engines?
I think it are no diesels but Hirth 3702.
Hirth
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The French government site allows searching with a wildcard, so I've done F-%LDE and come up with nothing appropriate (on that site, % is the wildcard character).
Aerodrome Sisteron is the site of two companies into electric flight. Electravia provided the batteries for a Cri-Cri that flew the Channel/Manche. E-props makes propellers optimised for electric powered aircraft; two firms with splendidly transparent names, but a Google search produces no images that look anything like this creature. Anyway, our object seems to have upward pointing exhaust stacks, apparently six per nacelle. Is that plausible?
EDITED: I wrote this before seeing the engine identified: they're intakes, if it is the Hirth, which looks likely.
Aerodrome Sisteron is the site of two companies into electric flight. Electravia provided the batteries for a Cri-Cri that flew the Channel/Manche. E-props makes propellers optimised for electric powered aircraft; two firms with splendidly transparent names, but a Google search produces no images that look anything like this creature. Anyway, our object seems to have upward pointing exhaust stacks, apparently six per nacelle. Is that plausible?
EDITED: I wrote this before seeing the engine identified: they're intakes, if it is the Hirth, which looks likely.
Last edited by FlightlessParrot; 23rd May 2021 at 10:08. Reason: Wrong assumptions.
With no new reactions or suggestions posted for 1 day, I think we have to acknowledge our defeat.
I am in contact with the aeroclub in Sisteron. When they might come forward with additional info I will of course let you know.
Sadly I have to declare OH.
I am in contact with the aeroclub in Sisteron. When they might come forward with additional info I will of course let you know.
Sadly I have to declare OH.
Jeez!! I thought YOU knew Bear...............................
It's defeated us all...................
It's defeated us all...................