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wub 30th Oct 2019 20:19

Looks like two F117 prototypes have crashed head on

treadigraph 30th Oct 2019 20:27

I think it collected the fence during an attempted take off.

Self loading bear 30th Oct 2019 20:34

I would like to see more of this plane
I have no idea how it looks from the side.

SincoTC 30th Oct 2019 20:38


Originally Posted by dook (Post 10606896)

Dring Insect Plane.

It is indeed the Dring Insect Plane, well found!

" The insect plane, which is really a flying motor car is being prepared for her trials in a clearing in the New Forest . Its inventor is Mr T A Dring , aged 78 , of Poulner , Hampshire . For 25 years he has studied the flight of hovering insects , and is convinced that ordinary aeroplanes are built on the wrong principles . His machine has two sets of rotor vanes , motor driven , each projecting a stream of compressed air under the fuselage . If his theory is correct , expansion of the streams will lift the insect plane . Photo shows the insect plane being prepared for her first flight . 30 April 1934"

However, I do agree with wub's comment that it looks like two F117 prototypes have crashed head on :D

dook has control :ok:

dook 30th Oct 2019 20:38

I don't think there is a side view.

dook 30th Oct 2019 20:44

Thanks TC.

The list of bookmarks on my drive is getting very large.

This one isn't so silly and there are a couple of players here who will get it quickly.


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8629b1af97.jpg

Self loading bear 30th Oct 2019 20:50

Ah
From the great times that pilot was still an outdoor profession.
When the skies were clean and sex was dirty.

SincoTC 30th Oct 2019 22:58

Hmm, a folding-wing biplane! Commercial?

Those engines look like Curtiss watercooled V8's, so probably from the USA?

I think I've seen it in the Fright Archives but no more time to look tonight and probably gonna be busy in the morning :*

MReyn24050 30th Oct 2019 23:12

The Barnhart Twin 15 aka Wampus Kat. Is it not?

SincoTC 31st Oct 2019 08:17


Originally Posted by MReyn24050 (Post 10607046)
The Barnhart Twin 15 aka Wampus Kat. Is it not?

I'm sure you're correct there Mel, that's the one I remember in the FA,

https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1922/1922%20-%200020.html

As dook said, not at all silly and even the quirky name is very appropriate for Halloween!! :D

dook 31st Oct 2019 09:27

MReyn gets it with the Wampus Kat.

Over to you.

MReyn24050 31st Oct 2019 11:48

Thanks Dook. Interesting challenge. Try this one
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b19b30d085.jpg

sycamore 31st Oct 2019 12:55

American ,1920s, powered by a Szekely SR-3 radial.....?//

MReyn24050 31st Oct 2019 13:40

Not American and late 1920s.

dook 31st Oct 2019 14:15

'artenoon MR.

German ?

MReyn24050 31st Oct 2019 14:19

Good Afternoon Dook. Yes she was from Germany.

dook 31st Oct 2019 14:36

'spose the engine was as well.

dook 31st Oct 2019 14:55

I don't usually do very long shots but was it from Raab-Katzenstein ?

MReyn24050 31st Oct 2019 15:23

The Engine was of Italian design but the aircraft was not from Raab-Katzenstein

dook 31st Oct 2019 15:41

So was that engine an Anzani?


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