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Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 12:02

https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/e...openhouse2.jpg

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 12:02

go on, be a devil!

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 12:02

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

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

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 12:06

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

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 12:52

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.

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 13:15


Viewed from below and front
Really? It would be very asymetric then?

RR

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 13:28

Not really.

Would you like the original photograph?

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 13:40

I'd love it!!!

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 13:44

I'm too soft......

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

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 14:00

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

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 14:05

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.

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 14:09

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

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 14:13

amusig myself ...

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

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 14:17

Hooked up to classroom computer.


From the 1970s?
1980s.

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


......platform open gondola
Yes. :ok:

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

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 15:30

Going home - back shortly.

Wannuther clue later?

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 15:43

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

Ridge Runner 27th Apr 2012 15:46


Going home - back shortly.
sorry David, balloons are not my idea of fun and I know nothing about them! :(

Lightning Mate 27th Apr 2012 17:28


Your idea of speed, David?

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. :)

SincoTC 28th Apr 2012 04:48

Morning LM :),

Sorry, out all day yesterday!


modified from a hot-air balloon
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"

Lightning Mate 28th Apr 2012 08:25

Good morning TC. :)


Sorry, out all day yesterday!
Don't apologise Glasshopper.

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

做得好


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