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Lightning Mate 21st Jul 2011 08:58

Thanks Martin. :ok:

:p Reg.

Noyade 21st Jul 2011 09:12

Gentlemen! :ok:

A biplane glider David?

Lightning Mate 21st Jul 2011 09:15

Evening Mate. :)

Yes.

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 09:19

Again a biplane glider. I was in great pains to find your previous one…. :mad:

Bonnet Double Monoplan (that makes it biplane!)

Bonnet Bordeaux

Lightning Mate 21st Jul 2011 09:29

Nice shot mate. :ok:

Now we can have your Biplane...:E

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 09:31

Thanks Mate. I hadn't seen that one in my earlier pains.

Biplane, as requested:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...p/occopy-2.jpg

HappyPass 21st Jul 2011 10:53

A Brit, Reg?

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 11:29

Not a Brit, HappyPass.

(Sorry for my slow)

Ridge Runner 21st Jul 2011 11:47

I reckon European? German?

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 11:53

Not European at all, RR.

HappyPass 21st Jul 2011 12:40

A little too slender and elegant to be of American design, am I wrong? :confused:
No offence meant, but they usually tend to give birth to more sturdy & chunky designs...

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 13:10

I think you are wrong, this once.

This might be from before their sturdy and chunky period.

The designer name leads to believe that his countrymen in the old country still master some of the skills.

Ridge Runner 21st Jul 2011 13:15


This might be from before their sturdy and chunky period.
What, between the 1960s and today? :)

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 13:21

Off by a quarter of century.

To-day's sturdies and chunkies would not fit into this one even using the biggest shoehorn ever built (that must have been built in the USofA, like everything else which is big or too big).

HappyPass 21st Jul 2011 14:00

I cannot find much, the designs that match this one more closely are from NAF and Stearman.
I think I can see a down-pointing exhaust... may I inquire as to how many cylinders (I'll guess about nine) or the brand of the radial (your choice which one to answer, if any)?

Ridge Runner 21st Jul 2011 14:13

Those wings taper, don't they?

Ridge Runner 21st Jul 2011 14:15

A Stits machine?

Lightning Mate 21st Jul 2011 14:35

Back from school.

I believe the designer of this bipe might have been British.

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 14:35

Five cylinders. Not NAF or Stearman.

Side-pointing exhaust in this one. Or rather down. Clearly visible. Probably not the original engine, which was, indeed, a five cylinder one.

They taper some.

Stits? Not a Stits.

Today's British known for good industrial design? Gimme a break :=

RegDep 21st Jul 2011 14:41

Some 100 built.


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