go on, be a devil!

Off to lunch - back shortly........

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...ing_29/bag.jpg

Strewth, mate! Viewed from above? Is t really deflating of is it supposed to look like that?

Better than Cessna 172 lookalikes though innit! :E

Viewed from below and front. This was the protype and it's accurately silhouetted - it looked a lot more conventional afterwards.

Really? It would be very asymetric then?

RR

Not really.

Would you like the original photograph?

I'd love it!!!

I'm too soft......

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...ng_29/bag2.jpg

Ah, so not "Viewed from below and front". Now all is clear!!!! Thanks... RR

If you look at the perspective of the gondola it's not from behind.

I have to invigilate an exam - back in about an hour.

More clues then, but here's one to be going on with:

hot air.

From the 1970s? A Multi-coloured gas-filled balloon with a platform open gondola?

amusig myself ...

http://jencarnes.com/blog/wp-content...airballoon.jpg

Hooked up to classroom computer.

1980s.

Apologies - it was modified from a hot-air balloon.

Yes. :ok:

edit: production versions after the prototype were hot air and pressurised.

Going home - back shortly.

Wannuther clue later?

Sorry david but an aside ........ I've got to share this find of a truly magnificent aircraft!!!
Forget your Fulcrums and Flankers, the Blinder was an extraordinary and wonderfully elegant machine!!!!

Your idea of speed, David?

RR

sorry David, balloons are not my idea of fun and I know nothing about them! :(

Sure is, but it could only sprint for a short period.

I am sorry you don't like balloons - I dont care for high-wing old monoplanes either.

If you are sticking around I'll give you a juicy clue. :)

Morning LM :),

Sorry, out all day yesterday!

Ah so Glasshopper!!

Dunno much about strange balloons, but Gogglefucious says modified hot air balloon is a rare photograph of the prototype (with original envelope) of Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics "Bee-6"

Good morning TC. :)

Don't apologise Glasshopper.

The prototype Bee-6 it is mate - your thread. :D

做得好

Thanks David,

Surprised this doesn't appear to be on Mel's list!

http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/.../TC_wtf232.jpg

Playground open. :ok:

Pushers?

They are indeed pushers

Am I right to be looking for single-engine?

Yes, a 60 HP engine by the same manufacturer as the airframe

Then possibly the Wright Model H.

Very similar, (W)right manufacturer, but not the Model H, this one also had a nickname!

The F then - Tin Cow. :)

Wright on mate; the Wright Model F Tin Cow :D

http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/...afe/TinCow.jpg

Lightning Mate has control :ok:

Thanks TC.

Are you at work ?

Shall we stay old ? (the aeroplanes I mean.....)

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...g_29/sat-3.jpg

Just leaving, had an early start, back on-line in about and hour :)

I have to go for an hour as well.

Methinks you have lost computerybob lekrickery..........

You're slipping mate. :)

Right at the bottom...

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...lenge-396.html

The Avro 558 from earlier. Best make it open house. Cheers. :ok:

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8256/avro5581.jpg

(PS : Thanks for the bottle of Red earlier. :ok:)

Evening Mate. :)

Bugger - I did look.............:\

Throw sumfin' up mate - anything!

Glad you liked the red.

Do you eat those Cornish pasty things? In all the papers here, they're gonna get expensive?
(Just meat and veg in pastry folded over and baked?)

Sounds like the barbecued chicken saga when they bought in the GST here.

Sorry, heading to bed now. :zzz:

Yep - I'm half Cornish and was brought up on them.

Wanna know the history?

Sure. I got a few minutes. :)

My mother was good at them, and her mother before that.

Originally conceived for Cornish tin miners who spent the day underground.

The real thing is in two halves sepaarted by pastry. One half is savoury and the other half if for second course ie a pudding/sweet.

The savoury should be beef, potato, and chopped onion.

The sweet was something like an apple pie or such.

Thanks for the history. :ok:
We have pasties here, which are mince and mixed vegies. But they're nowhere near as popular as meat pies.

Actually, I have this....

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7008/img602a.jpg