I don't have a big library, but I'll offer this one:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....16d658dbf8.jpg

Photo taken at Reno?

You're not wrong!

Clue time: This is a replica. Only one, non-flying, original example exists.

That helps, thanks! Jim Moss's Gee Bee R-6H replica 'Q.E.D.II' it is then :) (Had the Gee Bee R2 first, but have now found the correct photo...)

Jhieminga has it. Recently for sale at $900K, which was probably less than it cost to produce.
Seen on display At the Reno RCAR races 2014.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a25c4f0c10.jpg

We finally got there! Here's another one.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....22fb383a80.jpg

Must be an aerobatic one with a stick that long...?

That's what she said.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....80b124a754.jpg
FP,you mean the lovely Svetlana...!

Not an aerobatic type. No comment on the other replies ;).

It appears to be a single seater with side hinged canopy and entry from the right hand side, which is very unusual (unless the picture is reversed).

Is that a T-tail in the foreground?
I'm thinking possible motorglider but can't find a match.

Single seater, that's correct. Cockpit entry was from either side, pilot's option. It's not a T-tail you're looking at but the fuselage side. Not a motorglider.

Develish difficult,
I know looking into some jet kit planes but not the
Sub Sonex
Bd-5
Nor some Burt Rutan creations.
Am I on the right track?
I think we need some sort of clue.

I figured as much 😄 Does it help if I say that the previous challenge was my inspiration? Also, SLB is pretty close with one of those guesses...

Thanks for the clue. It bought me back to something that I'd fleetingly considered but dismissed.

I think that what I believed to be a canopy on the left side is in fact a huge engine & canard wing, and this is N221BP the Pond Racer.

It is, Mark 1 has control. I had to crop that engine out of the picture, otherwise it would have been too easy ;)

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0ac36234c0.jpg
Edit: there's a nice clip of the Pond Racer arriving at Reno in 1992 here:

Thanks Jhieminga. A quick dig through the annuls of my travels finds this, which I don't think has been on here before,

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....53ee977ee0.jpg

Is it the nose wheel look alike Chipmunk? Wagner Krishna or something?

UV,or do you mean the Varga Kachina...?

[QUOTE=sycamore;10970198]UV,or do you mean the Varga Kachina...?[/QUOTE

Yes that’s the one!

I would have allowed (barely) Wagner Krishna ;), but yes indeed a Varga Kachina, and no nose wheel :ok:.
This one at Ray, Michigan is a 2180TG variant.
UV has control!

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5299d84fd8.jpg

Phew ...that was a good guess. Sorry but I have to declare OH.

As we have Open House:

It seems not everyone has the right focus:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5ac5cb3d8.jpeg

Mid East or Asia....?

Asia indeed

Thailand ,Malaysia or Indonesia...?

Let me answer that it was not fitted with a scatter gun.

Oooh,you are awwfull,but ,I like you....!!:O

Pak.Air Force Mushshak..

Now that is a lot closer.
By the way
I like you too!

But which way from there...?

Was it Frankie Howerd,or Dick Emery...?

I had to look those two up.
It was Mandy (Dick Emery)
To drift a little further East of thread:
wasn’t Dick’s brother a licensed helicopter engineer?

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b94443224.jpeg

Dunno about his brother .but Dick was a member of the Tiger Club I think..

RTAF PAC CT-4.....

Now you are way too Far East
(Although the Thai also used the CT 4)
You have to locate your search pattern between Pakistan and your shatter gun range.

Well that's Ernest Borgnine, no relation to Dick Emery, but the connection ?.

So India or Burma I guess................ my "Janes All the World's Uniforms" show that the Burmese wear flat caps but the IAF do wear berets. - so we're in India I thnk

Hindustan Ardhra perhaps?

Sorry no connection
When I first googled Dick Emery I saw a superficial liking to the Airwolf engineer.

India indeed,
But the Ardhra is a glider?

Soemhow I got the idea it washad a small engine

Anyway is it the BHARAT LT-1 Swati? Sliding canopy, engine etc