I will second that.

Speedy recovery!
I looked at Great Lakes but this one not mentioned by Wikipedia.
Now this:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4474ffd37.jpeg

Anime role players should be ecstatic now being able to get the real thing under open sky instead of costumes indoors.

It's a M-02J - EAA AirVenture. Apparently a wing-warping weightshift jet powered ultralight!
Whatever posesses anyone to even concieve of such a ludicrously pointless, difficult to construct and probably suicidal contraption as that, let alone actually build one?
SImply because they could?
The mind boggles. (as it does to Beamrs post which after a score of attempts still makes no sense to me at all. Did it get scrambled up?)

meleagertoo,

This should help unboggle your mind:


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....fe8fe72d84.jpg

"Unboggle..."? I take that to be humour...

As to an expectation that any professional European aviator would have ever heard of some particularly infanile Japanese children's cartoon...How? Why?
Costumes and role players??? wtf??? As Baldrick would reply, "I would do Sir but I don't know what your're saying".
Yep. The mind is yet further boggled, hardly surprisingly.

sir, rest at ease, I had never heard of this specific cartoon prior to finding out what that flying gizmo is. Anime is the japanese cartoon type this specific cartoon represents, very big in certain circles, of which some people like to dress as their favourite anime character and have summits in stadiums and such.
To give you an idea, image courtesy of : koeln.de Role Play Convention 2015

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....02a0892e87.jpg

Well well! How utterly bizarre! Never heard of such a thing, not being much of an afficianado of cartoons (Family Guy excepted) and certanly not poor-quality Japanese children's ones, if the original cartoon is anything to go by (!).

This won't last long though it's nearly as silly as the last, but without the comic book factor.


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....091b739af8.png

Mel,
my apologies, I was not able to answer earlier, but you was fully correct with the Opensky Me-02. Indeed inspired by a Japanese animation movie.

Boggling or not, I am glad the builder did succeed in this Seagull and did not try to genetical engineer a Flying Dragon.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8cca176dc6.png
de Lackner Aerocycle, what could possibly go wrong?

Like Beamr, I hadn’t heard of this particular movie, although the details were easy to find by Googling Möwe and anime.

However, I think perhaps you should do some research before judging. 😄

MOVIE???
Its a movie now???

I cannot even begin to imagine how anyone could have the cheek to suggest "research before judging" is required on the basis of a single and such a self evidently infantile cartoon of the sort no sentient adult would ever even glance at twice, let alone take notice of, and especially how anyone might come across one from Japan of all places!
And how the digamma would any person of normal interests know or suspect to search for "Möwe and anime." whatever that means? Where would anyone get those terms from? Do they even have a meaning? (I'm not wasting precious minutes of my life looking them up, juvenile Jap cartoons are not my thing, as an adult(!!) )

I fear the world is full of weird and mainly unknown minority cults yet their protagonists fondly imagine everyone else is similarly aware.
Fact is, they ain't!

Anyhoo, welshwafoo, the floor is yours.

Something form Hector's House or The Clangers perhaps, or can we revert to reality?

Cripes! Who needs an enemy with that under you.

They really didn't seem to think that one through, did they?

Hope I'm not barging in here - this shouldn't be too difficult.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....da036de02c.jpg

Agricultural?
Let Z-37?

Z-37 was what I thought originally but decided it wasn't quite right...

Auster Agricola...

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....76fbe8c3d6.png
Close Noyade but spot on treadigraph. It has to be said - it's not a looker! However my interest stems from learning that my dear late friend Lance Mossom did some wing design work on this bird in between the tail plane design for the Brabazon MK2 and work at de Havillands "wonderful de Havillands" (his words) Over to you treadigraph.

Cheers Welshwaffu, ag aeroplanes need to be agricultural and it's a better looker than the Bennett Skytruck...

Dunno if this has graced these pages before, I expect it'll be i/d'd before I'm back from the Takeaway...

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4c7c514aa9.jpg

Its soooo quiet back here - all you can hear is the sound of the clock................