Aircraft type puzzle.....
 

Sitting here with a few minutes up my sleeve, thought of a poser for others with time to ponder winged things.

Here's the question..........I have an interest in 3 aircraft. All VH-registered, all in Oz. Read the following list of components/features and see if you can figure out what the aircraft are....

3 Engines
19 Cylinders
2 Carbys
6 wings
5 discrete Horizontal stabs
4 Fins/Rudders
9 wheels
8 rudder pedals
5 brake pedals
10 seats
4 landing lights
115 years of age


**** UTR - you are prohibited entry to this challenge!!!

Doh!


No fair!

Hey UTR,
Dunno if you wanted to do any formation this w/e - the Wx looks pretty ****e.
I may go for some aeros in the Friday am if cloud permits.

All the rest of you, you can deduct the components of a PA-32R Lance from the equation.

However, even with that clue, I bet NOBODY will get both of the remaining aircraft correct.....

Stearman should be there.
having the odd cylinders, surely got to have the sound of round!

if its not the Stearman, it bloody well should be :ok:

OK, there is indeed a radial engine in there (hence the odd number of cyls).

The real test is in reconciling the vertical fin/rudder brake/rudder pedal numbers.

Work that out and you'll have your answer

PilotHTR: it is just as well you told us it was the vertical fin, otherwise the less knowledgeable among us might have assumed it was the horizontal one.

I'll take a stab in the dark here and suggest that one of the aircraft is an Aircoupe. Unique features of this design are :

• dual fins and rudders
• no rudder pedals (rudder was controlled through a steering-wheel type yoke)
  

Thus the two other types would share the 8 rudder pedals (4 each assuming they each have dual controls) and 2 fins (1 each).

I can't recall the braking arrangement in the Aircoupe, but as it had no rudder pedals, it is quite possible that it had a single brake pedal.

Am I getting close?

Chimbu Warrior takes the points.................bloody good effort considering it is the only one on the Aus register. It's a 1946 ERCO 415-D. There is a Forney Aircoupe somewhere around, but it's a much later model.

The ERCOupe has dual fins (VERTICAL no less gsf:)), no rudder pedals (linked to ailerons) and a single brake pedal:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...1/IMG_2088.jpg

That leaves the Nanchang CJ-6A (9 cyl radial, full dual controls).

Well done. If I did not own the plane I'd never have worked it out.