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meleagertoo 28th Sep 2023 09:48

4 seat touring aeroplane with stretcher capability.
Developed from a previous tandem 2 seater.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4cdac5fbf3.png

Asturias56 28th Sep 2023 11:28

American?

meleagertoo 28th Sep 2023 12:34

No.
European.

NearlyStol 28th Sep 2023 15:42

What cockpit
 
Jodel D140. (Posted also on 'name that plane' by mistake

meleagertoo 28th Sep 2023 18:04

Afraid not.
This pre-dates your Jodel by twenty years or so.

bean 29th Sep 2023 11:11

Miles Messenger?

meleagertoo 29th Sep 2023 13:12

Not a Miles.

This one seems to have had a blind flying panel added though how you'd scan that systematically I can't imagine.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1079edb0e8.png

Asturias56 29th Sep 2023 16:43

Miles Mercury? fits the bill - but not a Miles.................

meleagertoo 29th Sep 2023 19:11

As I said, not a Miles.
Anyhow, you never saw a Miles with a silhouette like that, did you?

First flight five years before the Mercury and though similar in many ways this was rather chunkier and more substantial.
From a country with one of the greatest aviation heritages. (ie not Rumania etc)

Noyade 30th Sep 2023 07:59

Hmmm. Would the mystery cockpit be from an aircraft resembling a Spartan Executive - but from Italy?

Noyade 30th Sep 2023 08:23

Possibly the NARDI FN.310?

sycamore 30th Sep 2023 08:31

Possibly a Klemm...?

meleagertoo 30th Sep 2023 10:52

It's not "possibly" the Nardi 310.
It is the Nardi 310.Well done Noyade.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....91b261d4c7.png


Noyade 30th Sep 2023 20:49

Cheers Mel.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1be90c7b07.jpg

sycamore 30th Sep 2023 23:36

Must be on the wing/strut....?
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3fee6c4d33.jpg
like this,then...?

Noyade 1st Oct 2023 07:16

Not a biplane Sycamore. Wiki says it was once clocked at 325mph.

sycamore 1st Oct 2023 10:33

Possibly a Thompson Trophy racer from `38-39...?

Noyade 1st Oct 2023 22:33

Yes - A Thompson Trophy racer. First flight was 1934 from a well known designer/builder. There is a YouTube video (1982) of him sitting in the racer explaining the cockpit controls and the aircraft in general. It now resides in a museum.


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7bdc41e774.png

Noyade 2nd Oct 2023 11:16

External shot. I've read he sold the patent for the spring steel undercart to Cessna.
No wheel brakes.


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4803ba7bde.jpg

Noyade 3rd Oct 2023 23:14

Not able to monitor this for a few days - so I'll shut it down and declare Open House.

Twas...
Bonzo

meleagertoo 11th Oct 2023 17:03

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6241c1be8c.png

kenparry 11th Oct 2023 22:17

The shade of paint suggests USSR or Russia?

meleagertoo 11th Oct 2023 23:58

There were a good many countries in the USSR besides Russia!
But no not Russia and only just USSR.

meleagertoo 14th Oct 2023 14:21

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....754a38269f.png

Self loading bear 14th Oct 2023 17:46

Yeah, already thought it looked familiar to me.
You cannot zoom out much further without giving the game away.
Belarus isn’t it?

meleagertoo 15th Oct 2023 10:22

It is Belarus

Self loading bear 16th Oct 2023 17:06

Nobody else seems interested.
it is the Narushevich Ring Wing.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3c8496758.jpeg

meleagertoo 16th Oct 2023 18:20

Bear has it.
Sadly I get the impression this thread has had its day. Interest does indeed seem minimal.

sycamore 16th Oct 2023 19:50

Too much vodka ,or coffee stains on `the plans`...!

meleagertoo 16th Oct 2023 20:04

Apparently it flew well, had good short/rough field performance and had an nusually high payload vs its empty weight.
There's video of it flying on youtube.

Self loading bear 16th Oct 2023 21:33

Thanks Mel,
we will just carry on until some newbies get interested. For which Aerodrome this seems to be the case so nothing lost.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d45a831c3.jpeg


Noyade 17th Oct 2023 05:08

Dornier Do.27?

Self loading bear 17th Oct 2023 21:39


Originally Posted by Noyade (Post 11522390)
Dornier Do.27?

That the one, over to you.

Noyade 18th Oct 2023 07:38

Thanks Bear!


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....06d054ece0.jpg

Asturias56 18th Oct 2023 09:42

european?

is that a 4 point harness?

Asturias56 18th Oct 2023 11:42

Don't recognise the radio bottom right - perhaps an older model?

basic GPS on top of the panel bolted on as an after thought

This looks like a kit plane to me??

Blowing up the image - the hand written sheet in the centre looks like it's an aerobatic maneuvers diagram


ea200 18th Oct 2023 12:37

The radio looks like a Garmin 295 or one of the variants. Quite an old piece of kit now. The harness looks like a 5 point Hooker. The Arresti sequence is too blurred to make much out. I will see if I can sharpen it. There must be an G meter there somewhere, maybe bottom right. Single seat aerobatic taildragger, maybe an early homebuilt Pitts S1?

Asturias56 18th Oct 2023 12:59

I think you mean the GPS is an old Garmin? Certainly looks like it - anyway that fits with the radio which doesn't look recent to me.

And it looks like a prop blade visible mid left - and there isn't an equivalent on the other side so it's either two blade (unlikely I'd guess) or 3 blade prop?

Noyade 19th Oct 2023 08:27

Yes - home-built kit aerobatic aircraft - circa 1998.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9ea27464be.jpg

sycamore 19th Oct 2023 15:41

Early `Extra 200`...?


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