Is that a Verhees Delta?

Unfortunately not, it's a bit older than that.

Think it's a Dyke Delta.

Didn't some one on here, or maybe Flypast, see a French one visiting the UK last year?

Spot on, it is a Dyke Delta so over to you.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....df49737c2e.jpg

Have to say I think the Verhees Delta is a lot more sci-fi

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....24fbbd5e6f.jpg

Have to be an open house...

I’ve been mixing up my deltas :}

I must say I Googled "Dyke Delta" with a certain trepidation, but only aircraft turned up.

I knew it was a Dyke Delta but treadders beat me to it! However, his open house allows me to post this "smiling" beauty:


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b5acf883a9.jpg

That would be a Transland aircraft of some description (trusting my rickety memory) from the USA in, I think, mid to late 1950s, intended for aerial application of spray against unsuspecting caterpillars or some such. And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section, and a very broad undercarriage track too.

From the same designer as the Ercoupe.

Exactly what I was thinking - saw a redwood trunk in half and plane a bit off!

If I42 requires exact type:
This is the Texas/Transland/Weick Ag-1.
But I leave the honor too Dux.

Dduxbury,
as I have no experience in crop spraying; is there a significant difference in spraying unsuspecting caterpillars and suspecting caterpillars?
I could imagine the latter ones go into cocooning????

That's the one. The Ag-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_College_Ag-1)

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....17d4aba257.jpg

Designed by Fred Weick of Ercoupe fame* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Weick) when he was at Texas A&M. He subsequently designed the Ag-3, which morphed into the Pawnee. Obviously, Redwoods were hard to come by in College Station!

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....eae6545ad7.jpg

I found these aircraft while looking for information on the Pawnee, in advance of flying my gliding club's new towplane! :)

dux has control.

* PS Fred had many other achievements that are not as well known as the Ercoupe. I didn't know until I read the Wiki article, that he was involved in the development of the NACA cowl - http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/...aca-tn-301.pdf

Well I never! I thought with the Pawnee, Piper had just turned a Cub upside down! ;)

Not far from it! I have been told that the wing is basically a Super Cub wing, with struts on top. It certainly looks like it. The Pawnee's wingspan is one foot more than the Super Cub, which is presumably due to the wider fuselage.

PS dduxbury310 has control.

While we’re waiting for dux, I’ll post another obscure one that I just stumbled upon:


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....61d48f64b.jpeg

Look s like Yorkshire to me

Trust a geologist to spot the drystone walls!

Geographers can spot them too!

Early effort by Yorkshire Sailplanes?

The airfield might be in Yorkshire, but nothing to do with YS.

What was the designer thinking of with that nose-shape?