:ok:

Over to you Beamr!

something more traditional, or is it?

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8e2ce46afa.jpg

Airspeed Queen Wasp. :ok:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed_Queen_Wasp

Indeed it is. Radio controlled target aircraft from 1939 with a single pilot seat for ferry ops.

You have the controls, Noyade.

Thanks Beamr.

Another floater...


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1df363a3ba.jpg

No idea, but a crash would result in hundreds of dollars-worth of improvements. :ok:

EDIT: And I'm guessing it was underpowered?

It was that good, I think only one built. Perhaps the designer should have reflected on his first-name when the idea struck, and desisted!

A whopping 24hp. :)

Ahhhh...you have it! :ok:
Want control - or continue with clues?

Keep going with the clues, I'm in no hurry!

Okay.

From what I've read - related to a famous manufacturer that completed 83 design studies, built 39 prototypes and 11 production series, a total of 776 aircraft.
This included 6-engined flying boats.

Latecoere 225 then. A new one on me.

That's the one - and you named it.
Over to you. :ok:

I think asw28-866 has the helm? Happy to post one if not :)

Quemerford named it so it should be his - if ASW 28 wanted the con he would have named it rather than make an allusion.

Well try this and see how it goes...

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....43aae36e93.jpg

I thought it was Quemerford or ASW 28 turn?

Well that's weird: I seem to have two logins!

Q

And as if to prove it, here I am again. Turns out my 'old' laptop has a different login. Lesson learnt & apologies for the confusion :}

Lately it's been kinda hard knowing who exactly to hand control over to. :)
Above is the Brewster XA-32.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_XA-32

If so - OPEN HOUSE for others to have a go.

Stumbled across this aircraft in a book awarded to me as a school prize in 1976!...


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f72eb03afa.jpg

That rings a Bell.
I for one would love to know what book you received in 1976? :)


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a7cbf0384d.jpg

It is indeed the Brewster XA-32; that one didn't last long! Over to Noyade.

Well done Noyade, you have control. It is the Bell YFM-1 Aircuda.

Cheers.

Open House.

Bit of fun....

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e6d43b03b.jpeg

Can't but help feel someone has had a bit of fun with a bent Citabria or Champ!

Noyade,
This is the book I received, kept a 12 year-old amused...
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....24aaac8323.jpg

And the subject image that caught my eye...

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ae592162e6.jpg
'866

Found a picture when is was just a chick!...
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0e34c6b65a.jpg

Thanks! I remember that book - always loved John Batchelor's artwork. :ok:

Not a Citabria or Champ.
ASW is close...!

italian Aerogallo, the flying rooster..

Yes beamr it is indeed the Aerogallo. I hope it flies better than it looks!

You have control.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....899048b59.jpeg

Thank you very much, lets try this then

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e3ded47272.jpg

Is that Bob Hoover performing ?.

Lear 35/36?

- Ed

TS11 Iskra. Czech trainer.

I'll go military: C-21 then.

Not a challenge...

UV et al. flight characteristics of the rooster described as 'sporting' by the test pilot:

"A Handful of ChickenUnfortunately, Beltrome further reported, “The Rooster is unstable in roll and has a tendency to go into the first stages of a spin when you start to turn, if it isn’t noticed and checked.” He put in one stage of the flaperons to try to solve this problem. This is why the first flight turn was a very gentle affair with little more than 5 of bank and often less, with a very obvious and “twitchy” pitch.

Perhaps the most amazing and interesting part of the Rooster is its control system, which works in reverse to a normal three-axis-control aircraft. The control column comes down from the roof of the cockpit, and the control inputs are exactly the opposite to what one learns in normal piloting skills, so you pull back on the stick to go down and vice versa. This is the reason for some of the accidents during early taxi tests. It is apparently more like flying a delta-wing hang glider."

Full article here: https://www.kitplanes.com/when-the-rooster-flies/

And to Noyade, yes I was quite enthralled by Batchelor's drawings as a child...

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....97dcd38867.jpg
'866